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		<title>The Green Party&#8217;s Extremism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK Green Party is a political success story still in motion. They’ve managed to combat the strictures of our First-Past-The-Post electoral system to the point of getting their leader elected to Parliament. Meanwhile, Jenny Jones has just finished coming third in London’s mayoral elections, their campaign has brought them to third in London Assembly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simontkaye.com&#038;blog=1112229&#038;post=362&#038;subd=simonkaye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or, why Bono shouldn&#8217;t pay up. This week, U2 will be headlining at the Glastonbury festival. As expected, rock music purists are debating whether U2 is just too pop; whether this might be another symptom in the festival&#8217;s dumbing-down (Snoop Dogg, Beyonce and Jay-Z being among recent headlining artists). But the musical discussion has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simontkaye.com&#038;blog=1112229&#038;post=356&#038;subd=simonkaye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Students should vote (!) @ Prospect Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! I forgot to say that I wrote another piece for First Drafts, Prospect Magazine UK&#8217;s blog. It&#8217;s called Shouldn&#8217;t students put voting ahead of activism?, which was (I thought) a fairly uncontroversial thing to suggest. Here&#8217;s an extract: Students’ tendency to self-disenfranchise may contribute to their willingness to express themselves in alternative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simontkaye.com&#038;blog=1112229&#038;post=346&#038;subd=simonkaye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has Willetts put his foot in it? We&#8217;re all still awaiting Lord Browne&#8217;s report into higher education funding. It&#8217;s very likely, as many have pointed out, that he will eventually recommend lifting the cap on undergrad tuition fees, which currently stands at a little over £3,000. Whatever level fees end up at, I think we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simontkaye.com&#038;blog=1112229&#038;post=337&#038;subd=simonkaye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Laws knows the last digit of Pi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 08:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Laws, the Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury, is justly getting glowing notices in every Parliamentary sketch column in the papers today. I&#8217;m thrilled to see someone whom I&#8217;ve long suspected is the most talented MP in Westminster picking up some recognition. Otherwise known as one of the central negotiators and architects of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simontkaye.com&#038;blog=1112229&#038;post=265&#038;subd=simonkaye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The English do not Love a Coalition&#8221; @ Prospect Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 16:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve scribbled a bit more over at First Drafts, Prospect Magazine&#8217;s blog. Mostly to do with Disraeli&#8217;s failed ambition to form a government with Gladstone and his angry clique of free-trading &#8220;Peelites&#8221; in 1852: has David Cameron simply succeeded where Disraeli failed? Take a look here. Here&#8217;s a wee excerpt: He [Disraeli] seemed to see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simontkaye.com&#038;blog=1112229&#038;post=260&#038;subd=simonkaye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The David and Nick Show @ Prospect Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 22:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written a short piece on the day&#8217;s events and our brand new governing coalition over on Prospect Magazine&#8217;s blog. Here&#8217;s a small extract: In fact, the Lib Dem members I’ve been speaking to are surprisingly open-minded about the future of this deal. There is a sense that the real gain here is the chance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simontkaye.com&#038;blog=1112229&#038;post=257&#038;subd=simonkaye&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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