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		<title>Age of consent for religion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A legal minimum age to be exposed to religion is just one of the proposals of The People&#8217;s Manifiesto by Mark Thomas. The book is a hilarious compilation of spontaneous proposals by the audience of Mark Thomas radio shows. They are ideas of people who think that they can do a better job than the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finance regulator in a state of shocked disbelief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a direct route from power to disaster: it&#8217;s called ideology. From the horse&#8217;s mouth: &#8220;Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder&#8217;s equity (myself especially) are in a state of shocked disbelief.&#8221; Alan Greenspan admitted in October 2008 that there was a &#8220;flaw&#8221; in this &#8220;ideology&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suspended-disbelief.com/finance-regulator-in-a-state-of-shocked-disbelief/</link>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t know what level of reality I should be operating on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Public finances have in common with astronomy the incomprehensibility of its numbers. Can an average human being visualize £7 trillion for instance? Quoting a confused minister talking to Malcolm Tucker: I don&#8217;t know what level of reality I should be operating on. The UK government does. It knows exactly how much money it recognises as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suspended-disbelief.com/i-dont-know-what-level-of-reality-i-should-be-operating-on/</link>
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		<title>Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Office of Fair Trading found 103 building firms infringing the law in cover pricing in projects in the UK. The very British practice involve builders disclosing to one another or agree upon what price they intend to quote for building projects across England. The inflated quotes mislead the client (mostly authorities and councils) about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suspended-disbelief.com/shocked-to-find-that-gambling-is-going-on-in-here/</link>
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		<title>Costa del Despair &#8211; British expats in Spain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[- The nose-diving currency exchange rate of the sterling turn Britons into residents with no spare cash to spend - Most Britons bought cheap flats on the conspicuously over-concreted costas that do not have a way back to the market anymore - The increasing defaults of British expats with low incomes that can not pay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suspended-disbelief.com/costa-del-despair-british-expats-in-spain/</link>
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		<title>Nothing against the UK, honest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog does not bear ill against the UK. This country however would benefit greatly if so many people were not living in denial. The line up of the UK as the weakest economy in Europe is offuscated by commentators by diverting the attention to other troubled economies. Instead of admitting that the chances of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suspended-disbelief.com/nothing-against-the-uk-honest/</link>
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		<title>Corruption in the UK 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[- The Conservative party hid donations of £40,000 from Zac Goldsmith, his brother Ben and two billionaire brothers in an apparent breach of the law. - BAE admits guilt over corrupt arms £43bn deal in a corruption investigation that found evidence of bribes, kickbacks, false accounting and making misleading statements - Police is charging four [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suspended-disbelief.com/corruption-in-the-uk-2010/</link>
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		<title>The UK in numbers III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[childcare vouchers provided by 35,000 employers saved Britain’s ‘squeezed middle’ £500m for 2008-09 105 board members of Network Rail don&#8217;t want to cut their numbers to only 30 as such a cut is seen by them as &#8220;at bit like turkeys voting for Christmas&#8220; officially and as of Q2 2009 the public sector employment totalled 6.039 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suspended-disbelief.com/the-uk-in-numbers-iii/</link>
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		<title>Separatists and the martyrdom of ETA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[..Separatists marry within their community [...] sons and daughters grow up surrounded by the symbolism of ETA, of sacrifice, struggle, murder and martyrdom Dominic Ridley, in “Bloody Bequest”, The Guardian—Weekend, 21 April 2001]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suspended-disbelief.com/separatists-and-the-martyrdom-of-eta/</link>
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		<title>ETA trades with cocaine from the Colombian FARC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roberto Saviano declared yesterday that ETA, the terrorist group, is a para-mafia organization. The meme is not new but I think that it can be safely attributed to him. Mr. Salviano is crossing a few bridges in understanding the marginal undercurrents of the Europe of today. ETA is a terrorist group based in France and [...]]]></description>
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