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		<title>PMQs: Britain&#8217;s superheroes</title>
		<link>http://nickassinder.org/2010/03/10/pmqs-britains-superheroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Assinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who now dares suggest Britain is not still Great. Not only are we are led by a Prime Minister who saved the world, but we now hear it was the Tories who defeated the Soviet Union and won the cold war.
Former Tory Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd was right, Britain truly does punch above its weight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickassinder.org&blog=6291763&post=404&subd=assinder&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PMQs: Ashcroft affair dominates session</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Assinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like an over-filled helium balloon, Harriet Harman was at bursting point.
It was only a matter of time before she went bang, blasting William Hague out of his seat and even his job. She hoped.
The shadow foreign secretary, understandably, favoured the less messy option of gradually deflating her, letting the gas out with a whimper rather [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickassinder.org&blog=6291763&post=399&subd=assinder&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doing the election twitch</title>
		<link>http://nickassinder.org/2010/02/26/doing-the-election-twitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Assinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about twitchy. MPs, staff and hacks in the Commons are all as  edgy as patients in a dentist&#8217;s waiting room.

And all because  of the rumour sweeping the palace that Gordon Brown might use this  weekend to announce the general election date.
Read the full piece at ePolitix.com
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		<title>PMQs:Brown deploys the Henry II defence</title>
		<link>http://nickassinder.org/2010/02/24/pmqsbrown-deploys-the-henry-ii-defence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Assinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If hell really is other people, then Alistair Darling could name them &#8211; Charlie Whelan and Damian McBride.

He hasn&#8217;t named them, needless to say, but not a single person in Westminster has any doubt who the Chancellor meant when he said the &#8220;forces of hell&#8221; were unleashed against him after he declared the recession would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickassinder.org&blog=6291763&post=393&subd=assinder&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PMQs: Golden years or just tin-plated?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Assinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice to see the golden oldies getting all the attention at question time. Even Gordon Brown&#8217;s jibe at David Cameron that this is &#8220;no time for a novice&#8221; is drawing its pension.

Not so nice, though, to realise that care for the elderly looks like becoming a political football during the election campaign.
The first blow was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickassinder.org&blog=6291763&post=389&subd=assinder&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ali C still emotional over Marr</title>
		<link>http://nickassinder.org/2010/02/09/ali-c-still-emotional-over-marr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Assinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like Alastair Campbell still hasn&#8217;t quite recovered from his emotional reaction to Andy Marr&#8217;s questioning over the Chilcot inquiry.
Ali has just been on TV&#8217;s &#8220;Loose Women&#8221; show plugging his new novel but, inevitably, being asked about his little cheek-puffing moment on Marr last Sunday.
The hackles quickly rose again and he snapped that Tony Blair [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickassinder.org&blog=6291763&post=386&subd=assinder&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dorries urges rebellion over Speaker</title>
		<link>http://nickassinder.org/2010/02/04/dorries-urges-rebellion-over-speaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Assinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tory Nadine Dorries doesn&#8217;t like Speaker Bercow, and she doesn&#8217;t like his new dress code. So she is leading her own rebellion against the man she wants out of the job &#8211; and wants other MPs to join in.
Read the full story at ePolitix.com
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		<title>PMQs: What first attracted Brown to AV</title>
		<link>http://nickassinder.org/2010/02/03/pmqs-what-first-attracted-brown-to-av/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Assinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You could almost see the frustration bursting out over Gordon Brown like a rash.

Here he was facing David Cameron and armed with a whole series of put downs over the Tories&#8217; recent wobbles over tax and spending, abandoned policies and a slide in the opinion polls.
But the dastardly opposition leader wasn&#8217;t giving him an opening. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickassinder.org&blog=6291763&post=376&subd=assinder&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The bumpy ride to a Commons creche</title>
		<link>http://nickassinder.org/2010/02/03/the-bumpy-ride-to-a-commons-creche/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Assinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There may be a few more setbacks along the way, but it appears the Palace of Westminster  is finally to get a creche.
Read the full story at ePolitix.com


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		<title>PMQs: A distraction from the main event</title>
		<link>http://nickassinder.org/2010/01/27/pmqs-a-distraction-from-the-main-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Assinder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching today&#8217;s question time was a little like choosing to go to the Muppet Movie when Frost/Nixon was showing just down the road.
No offence intended to either Harriet Harman or William Hague, but a B-team PMQs was never going to have the draw of the Iraq inquiry&#8217;s probing of former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith.
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