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		<title>&#8230; although I&#8217;m starting to be a little bit surprised.</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/07/phone-hacking-even-lower</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/07/phone-hacking-even-lower#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[News of the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phone-hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebekah Brooks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not, however, at the latest allegation that the NOTW hacked the voicemail of 7/7 victims. What&#8217;s really struck me since I wrote the last post is the slowly developing picture of life behind the scenes at News International. It&#8217;s a &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/07/phone-hacking-even-lower">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s most depressing is that I&#8217;m barely surprised&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/07/phone-hacking-new-low</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Milly Dowler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[phone-hacking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After reading the latest chapter in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal&#8230; Missing Milly Dowler&#8217;s voicemail was hacked by News of the World (Guardian) &#8230; I jokingly remarked that at this rate it wouldn&#8217;t be long before a tabloid &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/07/phone-hacking-new-low">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on AV</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/05/what2av</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/05/what2av#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 09:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[av]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fptp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[referendum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yes2av]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be voting &#8216;yes&#8217; to AV tomorrow. That&#8217;s not to say I particularly want AV as our voting system, but unfortunately we don&#8217;t have the option of proportional representation. It&#8217;s Alternative Vote or First Past The Post, and I don&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/05/what2av">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Save the libraries!</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/02/save-the-libraries</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/02/save-the-libraries#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art/Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CILIP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[library]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Save Our Libraries Day, a national day of protest, action and awareness raising against library cuts. I&#8217;ve been using libraries for almost my entire life. I can just about (albeit hazily) remember being 3 or 4 and going &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/02/save-the-libraries">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hacking to the top</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/01/coulson-phone-hacking</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/01/coulson-phone-hacking#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coulson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phone-hacking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although there&#8217;s been plenty of coverage of Andy Coulson&#8216;s resignation this week, amid the increasing significance of the phone-hacking scandal, I&#8217;ve been surprised at how the media have chosen to focus on the story. The obvious point to make is &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/01/coulson-phone-hacking">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>It happens every year!</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/12/it-happens-every-year</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/12/it-happens-every-year#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drivel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[#uksnow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily mail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/?p=903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; that is, the self-important media pronouncements about our inability to cope with the snow. Why we&#8217;re a laughing stock with the rest of the world &#8211; David Jones, Daily Mail This bursting urge to point out our national shortcomings &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/12/it-happens-every-year">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Literally a joke trial</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/11/twitter-joke-trial</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/11/twitter-joke-trial#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paul chambers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitterjoketrial]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/?p=892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No point going off on an epic burble here. This is simply the most stupid verdict in British legal history since Judge Pickles said &#8220;Raped? I&#8217;ll bloody show her what raped feels like!&#8221; [Yes, GCHQ, that was a joke. A &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/11/twitter-joke-trial">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oh no, it&#8217;s the 80s again!</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/11/education-cuts-march</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/11/education-cuts-march#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[march]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radio 4]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/?p=886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Students rioting, tabloids screaming, Tories ranting&#8230; blimey, I&#8217;m expecting to see a DeLorean drive past any moment. Most of yesterday *could* be described without too much bluster or complication. Somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 students and education workers marched through &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/11/education-cuts-march">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m so angry with a brewery</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/10/angry-with-michael-turner</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/10/angry-with-michael-turner#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food/Drink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could burble about the disastrously regressive nature of the George Osborne&#8217;s Comprehensive Spending Review, the misrepresentation of how the economy got in this state and the lies behind the &#8220;all in this together&#8221; line. But I won&#8217;t. Lots of &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/10/angry-with-michael-turner">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lame browser, Dave.</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/07/ie6-uk-govt</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/07/ie6-uk-govt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet explorer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The government has decided it&#8217;s quite happy to keep using Internet Explorer 6 as its official web browser of choice. A nine-year-old piece of software that never adhered to commonly agreed standards of usability even back in 2001. So when &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/07/ie6-uk-govt">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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