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		<title>The independence referendum: sifting the malt from the chaff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last two weeks have seen plenty of comment and analysis about the pros and cons of Scottish independence: some of it informative, some of it downright barking. The debate has been dominated by procedural matters, but at some point the politicians will need to identify the issues that will define the campaign. We don’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsforpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11376817&amp;post=133&amp;subd=wordsforpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bannockburn, the great Scots referendum myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Darroch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often the media converges on what I’ve come to think of as a ‘lazy lie’. The distinction is with a deliberate lie, which is a thankfully rare thing, despite what many people assume. Newspapers may skewer facts to fit a particular political line or to engender a snappy headline, but conscious untruths are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsforpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11376817&amp;post=123&amp;subd=wordsforpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Bawbag: what the Scottish papers don&#8217;t say</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Darroch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scotland is a country overburdened with weather. So it’s not surprising that its people have developed a high tolerance threshold towards rain, wind, hail, more rain, snow, ice and even more rain. When all of these things blew in at once, you might reasonably have expected the mood to be dominated by churning seas and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsforpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11376817&amp;post=108&amp;subd=wordsforpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The trouble with Theresa May&#8217;s pussy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Darroch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning Theresa May, the home secretary who looks increasingly like an extra from one of the later Harry Potter films, was talking tough on immigration and the Human Rights Act at the Conservative Party conference. These are two subjects that have the same effect on the Tory Party faithful as a jam-coated stick on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsforpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11376817&amp;post=98&amp;subd=wordsforpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should David Cameron have gone to prison?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Darroch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister has been in a tough-talking mood lately. He has been adamant that there can be “no excuses” for the kind of “sheer criminality” that plagued London and other English cities in the early days of August. He has told the House of Commons that anybody involved in violent disorder should expect to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsforpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11376817&amp;post=82&amp;subd=wordsforpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything you&#8217;ve been told about AV is wrong</title>
		<link>http://wordsforpress.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/everything-youve-been-told-about-the-av-voting-system-is-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Darroch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the AV referendum campaign has established one thing, it’s that the level of our public discourse is stupider now than at any time since the Stone Age. The yes camp has been inept and uninspiring; the no campaign has been an insult to the intelligence of every sentient being. Especially horses. Hardly a day [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsforpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11376817&amp;post=74&amp;subd=wordsforpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Tweeting in court have you up before the beak?</title>
		<link>http://wordsforpress.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/will-tweeting-in-court-have-you-up-before-the-beak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Darroch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a lot of excited noise on Twitter this week after two judges gave different rulings on the use of the messaging service in their courtrooms. It was nicely appropriate that this happened during the extradition case of Julian Assange, who of course is best known for sneaking information into the public domain by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsforpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11376817&amp;post=66&amp;subd=wordsforpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheggers belief</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Darroch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Keith Chegwin has been outed as a Twitter thief and raised the hackles of Twittermedians up and down the land. Shame on you, Cheggers. Just when you seemed to have rehabilitated yourself as a pillock-turned-alcoholic-turned-nudist-turned-self-parodist, along comes this fresh blow to your credibility. But what does it mean in the wider scheme of things? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsforpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11376817&amp;post=61&amp;subd=wordsforpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FIFA&#8217;s stamping boot: what Robbie Earle and the Bavaria Babes really revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Darroch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a funny old game, football. We’ve all had a good old laugh at Robbie Earle, the hapless ITV pundit who blundered into a honey-trap and lost his job. Imagine falling for the old ‘blonde woman in short orange dress’ trick. Naïve doesn’t begin to cover it. Earle lost his job for his part in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsforpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11376817&amp;post=48&amp;subd=wordsforpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why was &#8216;Verklaring&#8217; trending on Twitter? A cautionary modern media tale.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Darroch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve been on Twitter this afternoon and you were particularly attentive, you might have noticed the word ‘verklaring’ sneaking into the bottom of the list of trending topics. It’s the second time in two days that a Dutch word has made it into the top 10, but this is nothing like yesterday, when people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsforpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11376817&amp;post=43&amp;subd=wordsforpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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