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		<title>When the Ku Klux Klan came for Fred Goodwin. Or not.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I MUST admit that I did not immediately grasp the obvious parallels between the decision to strip a banker of his knighthood and the brutal murder of hundreds of American blacks at the hands of a mass white supremacist paramilitary organisation. So I am thankful to Lord Digby Jones, a man who served as trade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capping bankers’ bonuses: is that a promise, Ed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GETTING one banker voluntarily to forego one bonus, one time, is the easy bit. But taking on the entrenched enrichissez vous ethos that pervades the financial sector will not be achieved by moral suasion alone. Don’t get me wrong, Ed Miliband has handled the Simon Hester affair in a manner that compensates – well, ever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidosler.com/2012/01/capping-bankers%e2%80%99-bonuses-is-that-a-promise-ed/</link>
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		<title>Liberals wear Birkenstocks, actually</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WHAT is this country coming to, Telegraph columnist Jeff Randall asks this morning, when we cannot even kick out al Qa’eda masterminds, Nigerian rapists, Romanian Big Issue sellers and those nice smiley Polish girls behind the counter at Pret, and set our indigenous chavs to work selling over-priced sarnies instead? Throw in repeated over-the-top use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidosler.com/2012/01/liberals-wear-birkenstocks-actually/</link>
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		<title>Greenspan versus Marx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A LOT of people on the free market right have a simplistic two-word explanation for why the world economy is currently close to the edge of a frighteningly steep cliff: Alan Greenspan. Throw those Marxist and Keynesian textbooks out the window, people. We are where we are because the former chairman of the Federal Reserve responded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidosler.com/2012/01/greenspan-versus-marx/</link>
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		<title>The million pound benefit cap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I DID realise that Asda sold shedloads of baked beans and breakfast cereal, but until this morning I did not know that the UK wing of Wal-Mart had moved into the market for economic indicators as well. But thanks to Retail Week, I am now aware of something called the Asda Income Tracker, which measures [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidosler.com/2012/01/the-million-pound-benefit-cap/</link>
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		<title>Welfare Reform Bill: why won&#8217;t anybody say it&#8217;s just plain wrong?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SO MANY of London’s £1m-plus houses are occupied by workshy immigrant families of ten that swathes of Maida Vale have been transformed into one vast welfare ghetto, with Afsoomali emerging as the dominant tongue on street after street. And huge numbers of City Boys aren&#8217;t that fussed about losing their jobs in investment banking because, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidosler.com/2012/01/welfare-reform-bill-why-wont-anybody-say-its-wrong-it-principle/</link>
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		<title>Popular capitalism, unpopular socialism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEVER mind popular capitalism for a minute; let’s talk a bit about unpopular socialism first. Some readers might be surprised to read that proposition as the opening line of a blog post by a lifelong lefty. But in Britain at least, the truth is support for socialism of any stripe is so low it barely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidosler.com/2012/01/popular-capitalism-unpopular-socialism/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t count on McCluskey to make the break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LEEDS United defender Norman Hunter, renowned for his perhaps overly robust approach to defence, famous advised young footballers to ‘get your retaliation in first’. The wisecrack metamorphosed into something of a New Labour catchphrase in the mid 1990s, with the line slightly altered to ‘get your betrayal in first’. Recent statements from both Ed Balls [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidosler.com/2012/01/dont-count-on-mccluskey-to-make-the-break/</link>
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		<title>What is Ed Miliband’s elevator pitch?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THERE is no alternative. It’s the economy, stupid. Third Way. Big Society. Encapsulate your outlook into a pithy slogan of as few words as possible, or risk having someone encapsulate it for you. That these designations are typically vacuous and point to little of substance matters not. Fail to play the game, and posterity will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidosler.com/2012/01/what-is-ed-miliband%e2%80%99s-elevator-pitch/</link>
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		<title>Scottish independence: which partner gets the record collection?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NOT many books make such an impression that you can still remember the broad outline of their arguments three decades after reading them. But the second edition of Tom Nairn’s ‘The Break Up of Britain’, published in 1982, was the work that has shaped my thinking on nationalism within the British Isles ever since. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidosler.com/2012/01/scottish-independence-which-partner-gets-the-record-collection/</link>
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