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	<title>Jack Thurston</title>
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		<title>New book: Lost Lanes &#8211; 36 Glorious Bike Rides</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just written a new book about my favourite places to ride a bike within striking distance of London. Read more about it.]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts on podcasting and radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past seven years I&#8217;ve presented a weekly half hour radio show about bicycling, broadcast on Resonance FM, London&#8217;s arts and community radio station. The Bike Show came into being in 2004 at around about the same time as podcasting began to catch on amongst its earliest adopters, according to the Wikipedia entry on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walklings Cake Shop, The Cut</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 1.15 am on 17 April 1941 a German bomb landed on the air raid shelter at 50/52 The Cut, on the site of where the Young Vic theatre now stands. 47 people were killed. Kit Murray remembers what happened: Walklings Cake Shop by jackthur This is a short excerpt from the fourth and final [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with RadioPlayer</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/whats-wrong-with-radioplayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RadioPlayer was launched today. It&#8217;s a collaboration between the BBC, Absolute Radio and a various other media groups and it aims to put all of UK radio in one place. Absolute Radio boss Clive Dickens described it as &#8220;the most important development in the 50 year history of UK radio&#8221;. My view? It deserves to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Story of Waterloo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 15:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve lived in Waterloo since 1996. Over the past six months I&#8217;ve been helping Mike Bruce with the digitisation of his A Story of Waterloo, a &#8216;tape slide show&#8217; that since it was first screened in 1982 has achieved something of a mythic status in community circles. These days nobody has the machinery to play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malcom Gladwell v. Barry Schwartz</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/malcom-gladwell-v-barry-schwartz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two excellent TED talks. Malcolm Gladwell says more choice is making us happier: Barry Schwartz says more choice is making us miserable:]]></description>
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		<title>Podcasts on the radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love listening to the radio. I love podcasts because it means I can listen to my favourite radio programmes from around the world whenever I like. And I&#8217;ve recently made a fantastic discovery. Podcasts are great but I what I like about the radio is that I can listen wherever I am &#8211; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Email still the key to online campaigning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I ruffled a few feathers with a post about the sorry state of Labour and the internet. One of my main points was that Labour seemed to be drawn into a battle of the blogs and was neglecting investment in a responsive email campaign. Thomas Gensemer, founder of Blue State Digital, the firm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sorry state of Labour on the internet</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/the-sorry-state-of-labour-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s taken thirty-six years but last week it finally happened. I found myself &#8211; however I might wish for it to be otherwise &#8211; agreeing with an article in the Daily Mail. It was a stingingly accurate critique of the Labourlist group blog which has been online for a while now but was &#8216;launched&#8217; last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One in four US Presidents have been assassinated or survived attempts on their lives</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/one-in-four-us-presidents-have-been-assassinated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States. Four of his predecessors have been killed while in office and there have been near-miss assasination attempts on six others. There have been abortive or ham-fisted attempts on their lives of a further five Presidents. President Obama has, by my reckoning, at least a one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor&#8217;s question time in foggy London town</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/mayors-question-time-in-foggy-london-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each month the Mayor of London faces a grilling from the London Assembly, a kind of Mayor&#8217;s Question Time. It lasts up to a few hours and there is a webcast of it. But the image quality is spectacularly bad: I suppose this is what people mean when they talk about &#8216;faceless officialdom&#8217;. It&#8217;s only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcasts: a baker&#8217;s dozen</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/a-bakers-dozen-podcasts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a post earlier this week, I referred to my &#8216;weekly diet&#8217; of podcasts and I thought it was only fair to open up the larder. I have been podcasting the radio show I present since May 2005. Initially I didn&#8217;t know what podcasting was or how to do it. A kind listener explained and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you think you understand the credit crunch?</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/so-you-think-you-understand-the-credit-crunch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Credit crunch, sub-prime mortgage, collateralised debt obligations&#8230; Obscure terms that now feature in everyday pub chatter, even more so after this week&#8217;s spectacular events involving the collapse of investment banks, unprecedented interventions by governments and a looming global economic downturn. But can you, hand on heart, say that you understand what the credit crunch really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podwalk: Backstreets of Southwark (London Festival of Architecture)</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/podwalk-backstreets-of-southwark-london-festival-of-architecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The London Festival of Architecture goes from strength to strength and this year runs from 20 June to 20 July. Along with the exhibitions, talks, guided walks, debates and parties there is a series of excellent architectural podwalks produced by Ruby Wright. I did one about my neighbourhood, entitled &#8216;Backstreets of Southwark&#8217;. It was featured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first black American with an eye on the White House?</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/remembering-carl-b-stokes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The confirmation of Barack Obama as the presumptive Democratic Party candidate for the 2008 presidential election is a historic moment in the history of black America. Previously I&#8217;ve posted audio recordings of Bobby Kennedy&#8217;s campaign in 1968 and Spiro Agnew&#8217;s vice-presidency. Now seems like a good time to turn to the record collection to remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: Get out my life, woman&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/obama-get-out-my-life-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this what he&#8217;s thinking? Reminds me of a song I know&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The man who put the vice into Vice President</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/the-man-who-put-the-vice-into-vice-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 21:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I posted a recording of an interview with Senator Robert &#8216;Bobby&#8217; Kennedy, conducted by David Frost, just a short while before Kennedy was assassinated. There is every chance that had he not been slain, he would have secured the Democratic Party nomination for the 1968 presidential election and beaten Richard Nixon, the Republican [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Splash!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 16:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer&#8217;s here at last, and there&#8217;s no better way to celebrate than stripping off and jumping in a river, lake or waterfall. This past weekend I took a brief and rather chilly dip in the Doone Valley on Exmoor. With impeccable timing my good friend Daniel Start has just written fantastic new book that details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London: 3 May 2008</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/london-3-may-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 01:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Either you&#8217;ll get it or you won&#8217;t.]]></description>
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		<title>London&#8217;s Mayoral elections: maxmising my voice by strategic use of preference voting</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/london-elections-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want Ken Livingstone to be re-elected as Mayor of London. I believe that as a politician he is a cut above any of the other candidates and has the experience and record of achievement that entitle him to a third term of office. I have even made a small donation of £50 to his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spot the difference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is America ready for an oven-ready President? It&#8217;s all good!]]></description>
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		<title>What I learned from a day locked inside Google HQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent Saturday at &#8220;barcampUKgovweb&#8221; and met a very interesting group of people who care about how government behaves online. Among the 60 or so participants, there was a roughly even split between people working for government, people working for companies and people who are &#8211; for want of a better term &#8211; civic hackers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comedy flashback: Chris Rock on the Black President</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/comedy-flashback-chris-rock-on-the-black-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Barack Obama neck-and-neck with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, it&#8217;s worth recalling a virtuoso performance by comedian Chris Rock back in 1996 when Colin Powell was rumoured to be considering a presidential bid. Have things changed much since then? Could Rock&#8217;s cynicism about white people saying they&#8217;ll vote for a black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you tell Gordo from Dave?</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/can-you-tell-gordo-from-dave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Eyes is a web-based data visualisation tool that is still in alpha but already looks impressive. It&#8217;s very simple. You cut and paste data (numbers or text) and then choose from a variety of data visualisation tools to make your dataset come to live. We hope to be doing some cool things with it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times stops charging for content</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/new-york-times-stops-charging-for-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From today, all the content at the New York Times website will be free &#8211; ending a practice that saw some of America&#8217;s best reporting and column writing hidden behind a &#39;pay wall&#39;. Why a website with a Google Page Rank of 8/10 and therefore huge potential for paid adverts should ever have considered charging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A gentleman or a player?</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/a-gentleman-or-a-player/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I attended an interesting talk at the Frontline Club where Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur, argued that blogs, social networking and user generated digital content pose a threat to our culture, economy and civilisation. Very quickly it became clear that Keen relishes his role as contrarian and provocateur and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In search of London&#8217;s drinking fountains (and cattle troughs)</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/in-search-of-londons-drinking-fountains-and-cattle-troughs/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthurston.com/in-search-of-londons-drinking-fountains-and-cattle-troughs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help locate London&#8217;s fine heritage of Victorian drinking fountains, in celebration of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. Public drinking fountains are a simple, modest yet precious civic amenity under threat from neglect and the rise of environmentally catastrophic bottled water. Turn away from the bottle and join a treasure hunt and celebration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unleashing the power of investigative journalism</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/unleashing-the-power-of-investigative-journalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight years – and a lifetime – ago, I was working as a political aide to the UK agriculture minister Nick Brown. It was a difficult time for British farming. Prices were down, the backwash of mad cow disease was impacting the livestock sector, the strong pound was hitting exporters and there was genuine discontent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bike Show presents the British premier of Raes&#8217;s Symphony for Singing Bicycles</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/the-bike-show-presents-the-british-premier-of-raess-symphony-for-singing-bicycles/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthurston.com/the-bike-show-presents-the-british-premier-of-raess-symphony-for-singing-bicycles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever dreamt of playing in a symphony? Have you heard of the early-20th-century-futurists favoring the street over the canvas or the stage? Maybe Godfried-Willem Raes&#8217;s 2nd Symphony could be your chance. And, it isn’t even very difficult: join the symphony with your bicycle. We carefully prepare and tune your instrument; you and bicycle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Blair quit and how he will be remembered</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/why-blair-quit-and-how-he-will-be-remembered/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthurston.com/why-blair-quit-and-how-he-will-be-remembered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 12:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At noon today at a meeting at the Trimdon Labour Club in his constituency, Tony Blair told a group of his friends and political supporters (link requires Real Player) that he has tendered his resignation as leader of the Labour Party and will be stepping down as Prime Minister on 27 June after ten years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transatlantic regulatory co-operation wins the day for UK ‘metric martyrs’</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/transatlantic-regulatory-co-operation-wins-the-day-for-uk-%e2%80%98metric-martyrs%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthurston.com/transatlantic-regulatory-co-operation-wins-the-day-for-uk-%e2%80%98metric-martyrs%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 11:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British campaigners against European Union plans to outlaw imperial measures like pounds and ounces have claimed victory, according to news reports today. The self-styled &#8216;metric martyrs&#8217; say they have say they have won the battle to keep Britain imperial, after confirmation from the European Commission&#8217;s industry commissioner, Gunther Verheugen, that dual marking of goods in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Prime Minister Gordon Brown must say sorry for Iraq</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/why-prime-minister-gordon-brown-must-say-sorry-for-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthurston.com/why-prime-minister-gordon-brown-must-say-sorry-for-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 22:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday this week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce the date he will step down as premier, all but cementing a July handover to his long time political friend and rival Gordon Brown. As Chancellor Brown moves nextdoor into Number 10 Downing Street, he faces some big challenges on the economy and on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food that makes you go Yuck!</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/food-that-makes-you-go-yuck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past few days have seen new revelations about the cause of the current outbreak of bird flu at a Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Suffolk. It is being widely reported that the outbreak is most likely to have been caused by imports of part-processed turkey from Hungary, which has had several outbreaks of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do they make politicians like this any more?</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/do-they-make-politicians-like-this-any-more/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthurston.com/do-they-make-politicians-like-this-any-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I came across a second-hand vinyl record of Senator Bobby Kennedy interviewed by David Frost. The interview was conducted during RFK&#8217;s 1968 Presidential bid which was to end in his assassination in Los Angeles &#8211; just hours after winning the California Democratic primary. The record is a fascinating document of a remarkable man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the statistics: the changing fortunes of French farming</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/behind-the-statistics-the-changing-fortunes-of-french-farming/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthurston.com/behind-the-statistics-the-changing-fortunes-of-french-farming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Financial Times has reported on new figures from the French government statistical service showing that French farmers are &#8220;getting steadily worse off compared with their fellow citizens and their European peers&#8221;. Such figures are grist to the mill of those calling for a strong defense of EU farm support from the internal pressure of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The time has come for transatlantic statesmanship on trade</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/the-time-has-come-for-transatlantic-statesmanship-on-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthurston.com/the-time-has-come-for-transatlantic-statesmanship-on-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must be frustrating being the President of the European Commission: a whole lot of responsibility but very little power. When Jose Manuel Barroso meets George W Bush at the White House next week he may be able to offer some advice to a US President who has just lost control of Congress and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My last ever Powerpoint presentation</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/my-last-ever-powerpoint-presentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I gave my last ever Powerpoint presentation. It was on the findings of a new public opinion survey commissioned by the German Marshall Fund, where I am currently a non-resident transatlantic fellow. You can view it or even listen to a recording: I gave slight variations of this presentation in Brussels, at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As the rich get richer&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/as_the_rich_get_richer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Cohen writes in The Observer about the unwillingness of the British government to do something about tax avoidance by the super-rich, which he sees as &#8220;debauching British society&#8221;. Meanwhile new figures from the TUC show that since 2000 the pay of company executives has increased 17 times faster than average pay. It is true [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP GFOS</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/rip_gfos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will twelve days be long enough to mourn the passing of James Brown, Soul Brother Number One, the original Funky President, the Minister of the New New Super Heavy Funk, the Godfather of Soul, who left this world on Christmas Day? His impact and legacy are as significant as any musician, artist or performer of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Ted Turner selling snake oil?</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/ted-turner-biofuels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was invited to speak at the World Trade Organisation Public Forum, held last month at the WTO&#8217;s headquarters on the shore of Lake Geneva. (More on the questionable wisdom of locating a pro-free trade institution in highly protectionist Switzerland will follow&#8230;) In the opening plenary session we were addressed by WTO Director General, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking back at the Marshall Plan</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/marshall-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently a Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. GMF is a nonpartisan American public policy and grantmaking institution dedicated to promoting greater cooperation and understanding between the United States and Europe. Founded in 1972 through a gift from Germany as a permanent memorial to post-World War Two Marshall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pass the screwdriver&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://jackthurston.com/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Thurston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erm, I&#8217;m still unpacking boxes and putting up shelves. Come back soon for notes and articles by Jack Thurston.]]></description>
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