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		<title>Dave vs. Microsoft &#8211; day twenty-four</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/05/dave-vs-microsoft-day-twenty-four/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To find out why I&#8217;m doing this, see my first post or donate via JustGiving here Just two days ago I was a healthy 882 gamerscore short of my target, with a mere 6 days to go. With the deadline getting tighter, how have I performed? Well, I think the image says it all really. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dave vs. Microsoft &#8211; day twenty-two</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/05/dave-vs-microsoft-day-twenty-two/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2013/05/dave-vs-microsoft-day-twenty-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To find out why I&#8217;m doing this, see my first post or donate via JustGiving here As of my last (half-way point) update, I was barely a third of the way to my target. Which gave me two choices, really &#8211; either resign myself to failure (and baldness), or pull out all the stops. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty in the UK</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/05/poverty-in-the-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 06:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a pernicious kind of argument which continues to crop up online, and it is the suggestion that there no such thing as real poverty in the UK. Often there&#8217;s a comparison with Africa &#8211; because poor and starving people in the UK don&#8217;t look like the images we see on NSPCC adverts, so therefore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Breakfast Bias response</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/05/bbc-breakfast-bias-response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 07:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I complained to the BBC about &#8211; in particular &#8211; BBC Breakfast&#8217;s appallingly pro-UKIP coverage (this actually got a bit worse after I sent my complaint, as anyone was watching will testify). I got a response this morning: Dear Mr Evans Reference CAS-2084388-9L28ZN Thanks for contacting us regarding &#8216;Breakfast&#8217; as broadcast on 3 May [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting Edge Blogging</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/05/cutting-edge-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 03:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8216;catching up with several years ago on the internet&#8217; news, I&#8217;ve finally got around to implementing a social login button &#8211; so you can login and comment using your existing social media accounts (like Twitter, Google&#8230; even Steam) You may notice that there is a glaring omission in the list of available accounts, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dave vs. Microsoft &#8211; day fifteen</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/05/dave-vs-microsoft-day-fifteen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To find out why I&#8217;m doing this, see my first post or donate via JustGiving here Ten days since my last update, and over half way through my challenge. So I should be pretty much half-way through my gamerscore target by now, right? Wrong. I did fully complete Hitman: Absolution, as you can see &#8211; but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election Results 2013</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/05/election-results-2013/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2013/05/election-results-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 18:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn&#8217;t normally bother with a full results analysis, but as the BBC &#8211; especially on TV &#8211; seems solely dedicated to trumpeting the &#8216;massive game-changing victory&#8217; of UKIP, and with BBC One very quickly becoming &#8216;All Farage, All The Time&#8217; I think a more bare-bones summary is needed from someone. Vote Share We have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Breakfast Bias</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/05/bbc-breakfast-bias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 06:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was pissed off enough at what was either sheer incompetence or flagrant bias on BBC Breakfast this morning that I actually bothered to complain to the BBC about it. I don&#8217;t really expect it to achieve anything, but here&#8217;s my complaint in full: Throughout this morning&#8217;s BBC Breakfast attention has been paid to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Masque of Anarchy</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/05/the-masque-of-anarchy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 19:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s International Workers&#8217; Day today (aka Labour Day, aka May Day, aka my birthday), which is a good time to remember the right of the common man to stand together with his comrades and oppose that which is wrong. On 16th August 1819, about 80,000 protesters gathered in Manchester to demand Parliamentary reform &#8211; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dave vs. Microsoft &#8211; Day Six</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/04/dave-vs-microsoft-day-six/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2013/04/dave-vs-microsoft-day-six/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To find out why I&#8217;m doing this, see my first post or donate via JustGiving here So, my promising start &#8211; during which I gained almost 250 gamerscore in the first 24 hours &#8211; seems to have died back a bit. I would like to blame this on the fickle nature of xbox achievements, or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dave vs. Microsoft &#8211; Day Two</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/04/dave-vs-microsoft-day-two/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2013/04/dave-vs-microsoft-day-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To find out why I&#8217;m doing this, see my previous post or donate via JustGiving here To give myself a good head-start, I&#8217;ve returned to Hitman: Absolution, a game I stopped part-way through for some reason (i.e. &#8216;I started playing another game and forgot all about it&#8217;) This means that I have a shitload of story- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dave versus Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/04/dave-versus-microsoft/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2013/04/dave-versus-microsoft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;m not being all political and ranty, I play videogames quite a bit. I may have mentioned it before. On the 21st May, Microsoft are going to announce their new console. Yes, they&#8217;ve announced that there&#8217;s going to be an announcement. That&#8217;s how these things work. This isn&#8217;t news anyway, we&#8217;ve known about it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UKIP, misogyny and you</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/03/ukip-misogyny-and-you/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2013/03/ukip-misogyny-and-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may be aware, a Labour Party activist (she dressed as a horse in Eastleigh) by the name of Amy Rutland asked a question on Question Time last night. Here&#8217;s what she said (Brits can watch it here [36 mins]): UKIP are a really poor excuse for a political party, all they do is focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-fascism</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/03/anti-fascism/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2013/03/anti-fascism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday (2nd March), the EDL came to Manchester. My city. They&#8217;re an abhorrent, racist, fascist organisation. Although they claim the title &#8220;English Defence League&#8221;, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;re all aware by now that they stand solely as an anti-Muslim group. There are some who suggest that we should ignore them and then maybe they&#8217;ll go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Propaganda</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/03/on-propaganda/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2013/03/on-propaganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It probably won&#8217;t surprise you to learn that I spend quite a lot of my time online talking about politics and getting outraged by opinions that are oh-so-very-wrong. This isn&#8217;t exactly an unusual hobby nowadays. I&#8217;ve been thinking quite a lot lately about the way the Right (in particular the right-wing media) frame the debate; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing Poverty, Choosing Children</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2013/01/choosing-poverty-choosing-children/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2013/01/choosing-poverty-choosing-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may initially look like a straw man argument &#8211; after all, it&#8217;s fairly obvious that no-one chooses poverty. But people do make choices that lead to poverty, or make their situation worse &#8211; and this is often seized upon (particularly by right wing politicians &#8211; Edwina Currie is especially notorious for it). So &#8211; cutting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Soon</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2012/12/too-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There can&#8217;t be anyone with internet access who remains unaware of the horrific events in Connecticut on Friday. An event where &#8211; let&#8217;s be clear about this &#8211; twenty young children and six innocent adults lost their lives. This has, as is typical of school shootings (particularly in America) yet again opened up the debate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weak on the Economy</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2012/12/weak-on-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2012/12/weak-on-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is now also available at Liberal Conspiracy (where you can also find a lots more left-wing analysis and opinion, so have a mooch around if you haven&#8217;t before) &#160; As you are almost certainly aware, today we received the Chancellor of the Exchequer&#8217;s Autumn Statement &#8211; something which our current government has turned into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Generosity of Strangers</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2012/11/the-generosity-of-strangers/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2012/11/the-generosity-of-strangers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just over four years ago, my mum died following a long illness. That&#8217;s the traditional euphemism for cancer, but she was ill with it for seven years so I&#8217;m using it even if it&#8217;s a bit old fashioned nowadays. This, as you might expect, was pretty fucking difficult for me. It was made even more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Means Testing Child Benefit</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2012/10/means-testing-child-benefit/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2012/10/means-testing-child-benefit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government have begun the long-awaited process of means-testing Child Benefit. At first glance this may seem like a fair decision &#8211; why should rich families receive state support to help raise their children? But it&#8217;s not quite so straightforward. For starters, many rich families never claim their Child Benefit entitlement anyway. So the state [...]]]></description>
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