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		<title>BREAKING/URGENT/MASSIVE US ELECTION NEWS: Dan Hannan to Endorse this Weekend</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drop everything.  Hold the front page.  Wow.  Huge news breaking that may come to be regarded as THE PIVOTAL MOMENT in the 2008 American Election: Dan Hannan is about to announce his endorsement.  The Conservatve MEP and extraordinary self-publicist (he&#8217;s written a book recently in case you&#8217;ve managed to miss it &#8211; which by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4275286&amp;post=539&amp;subd=centreleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Decent Arab? Mon Dieu!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain has received some rather odd praise for his response to a supporter who described Obama as an &#8216;Arab&#8217; at a rally last week in Ohio.  Correcting the mistake McCain responded: No ma&#8217;am.  He&#8217;s a decent, family man, a citizen I just happen to have disagreements with Ah.   Well that&#8217;s good to know.  Because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4275286&amp;post=534&amp;subd=centreleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Osborne Breaks from the Consensus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Osborne has broken the cautious consensus of the last week writing today in the Standard and fingering Brown as the instigator of the current financial crisis.  The shadow-Chancellor is, CentreLeft spies inform, angry at having been frozen out of Treasury briefings,  who were in turn angry at Osborne for leaking information last week. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4275286&amp;post=518&amp;subd=centreleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh, fashionable and insubstantial &#8211; Cameron on Cameron</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the downturn bites and the Parties converge looking for consensus, CentreLeft asks whether David Cameron really is a Statesman-in-waiting? Where better to start the analysis than in a review of Dylan Jones&#8217; recent tome Cameron on Cameron&#8230; David Cameron is a nice man who loves his family, tolerates all creeds, cultures and characters, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4275286&amp;post=489&amp;subd=centreleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cruddas Keeps His Distance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Cruddas certainly had a dilemma over Gordon Brown&#8217;s reshuffle. And it is a shame for the party that he has not joined the government. Cruddas could have helped turn a Brown-Blair armistice into a Labour Party &#8216;popular front&#8217;. By staying out, the government tilts a little further right than it might otherwise have done. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4275286&amp;post=503&amp;subd=centreleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Andrew than Adonis &#8211; Why Academies are Safe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CentreLeft, after a period in rehab after the political orgy that was the Conference season, returns from today.  We begin with with the Reshuffle&#8230; CentreLeft&#8217;s spies report an upbeat atmosphere as the Parliamentary Labour Party meeting consummated the new Brown-Blair coalition government. Labour MPs somehow managed to refrain from breaking out into a chorus of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4275286&amp;post=479&amp;subd=centreleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pink Vote</title>
		<link>http://centreleft.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/the-pink-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite having spent much of the last three weeks convalescing CentreLeft isn&#8217;t going to let certain things slide particularly the ridiculous claims by Margot James last week.  Below a response: Margot James, by her own admission the only Conservative lesbian candidate for the next election, has announced that all gay people have a duty to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4275286&amp;post=486&amp;subd=centreleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CentreLeft Apologies</title>
		<link>http://centreleft.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/centreleft-apologies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been &#8211; for those of you who haven&#8217;t given up on us completely &#8211; a short hiatus recently on CentreLeft.  Apologies.  We&#8217;d like to claim that there were technical problems &#8211; but there weren&#8217;t.  Anyways, normal service should be resumed now and articles going up in the coming days &#8211; that&#8217;s if we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4275286&amp;post=475&amp;subd=centreleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blowback: How does Obama handle his Palin Problem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2008 US Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palin’s rise to political stardom has precipitated the most thorough media introspection in America since the Iraq War.  When Palin was first announced the media thought all its Noëls had come at once.  Result: in the words of Peggy Noonan, the media dropped the “A-bomb” on her within the first 72 hours.  They, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4275286&amp;post=468&amp;subd=centreleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Smell of John Reid</title>
		<link>http://centreleft.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/the-smell-of-john-reid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Siobhain McDonagh is the latest, and most senior government (now ex) member, to break ranks and call for a leadership election to &#8216;clear the air&#8217;.  Forget McDonagh, that&#8217;s not the story.  Senior Westminster insiders tell me that this &#8216;smells of John Reid&#8217;; so we&#8217;re left to ask: is this the start of a John Reid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=centreleft.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4275286&amp;post=459&amp;subd=centreleft&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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