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		<title>WHICH CAME FIRST, THE STINGING NETTLE OR THE DOC LEAF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have spent today doing the exact opposite of Twitter. I took a garden fork and attacked a piece of wild land hoping to one day tame it (in the same way that one day I&#8217;ll get round to fixing that smashed catflap). Anyway, my back is buggered now, but this could be from hunching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAPPY HUFFAMDAY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He could write. He could concoct characters. He could make you die on a sword for the underdog. And still does. I&#8217;ll leave you this morning with his last words: &#8220;Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.&#8221; Charles John Huffam Dickens born 7th February 1812]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2012/02/happy-huffamday/</link>
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		<title>THE NEW WAVE OF STREET POLITICIANS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, applications to university are 9% down. Shock-shock, horror-horror, shock-shock-horror (so sang Space in The Female of The Species). The truth is there is no surprise. Irrespective of the cost, they feel that life studying in an institution might not lead to much. So they opt out. The other truth is this might yet lead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2012/02/the-new-wave-of-street-politicians/</link>
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		<title>2012 SPONSORS IN VOLUNTARY DOPING SCANDAL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dow has been caught with its needle between its legs. As an Olympic sponsor, its bloodline to Bhopal was always dangling there but since Meredith Alexander stepped down the past has turned up to taunt the present like a bastard offspring at a 40th birthday. According to the online gospel, Paddy Power has installed Louise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2012/01/2012-sponsors-in-voluntary-doping-scandal/</link>
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		<title>ROLL-ON KY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just seen an ad on C4 for a roll-on Durex lubricant &#8211; the sexual equivalent of Castrol GTX. How long before broadcasters look to individuals for ad revenue and mainstream TV is the shop window for lonely hearts and groins?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2012/01/roll-on-ky/</link>
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		<title>WIKI-STRIKE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From 5am on Wednesday 18th January 2012, Wikipedia will shut its encyclopaedic doors for a day to make a point about piracy and IP. Everything comes from somewhere, consciously or subconsciously. We are but a few billion magpies in denial. This post came from watching Newsnight. Does this mean Gavin Esler will be at my back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2012/01/wiki-strike/</link>
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		<title>DAVID FROST &amp; ALAN DAVIES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Close your eyes and listen. Only sight can tell them apart.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2012/01/david-frost-alan-davies/</link>
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		<title>TERRY V SUAREZ IN ABUSE-OFF FOR CHARITY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s clocked up approximately twelve times the amount of coverage it had ever hoped for in its wildest nightmares. And still it remains mostly unsaid. The fear of saying the wrong thing and the threat of libel/slander that comes with it is what restricts this debate to its pedestrian pace and linear path. Irrespective of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2012/01/terry-v-suarez-in-abuse-off-for-charity/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;DON&#8217;T GO THERE&#8221; SHE SAID</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I never want to speak to you again&#8221; he replied. &#8220;Marry me&#8221; she thought but couldn&#8217;t quite find the words.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2012/01/dont-go-there-she-said/</link>
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		<title>THE CLAPATHONIST</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She led a frugal life, choosing to fidget rather than heat her home. Then she fell and broke her leg. Surely her habits would change and she&#8217;d be forced into heating her home, but no. Instead, she began to clap. She&#8217;d never clapped beyond 20 seconds before, so she started softly, almost in silence. Over [...]]]></description>
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