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		<title>Godwin Politics</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2012/02/godwin-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2012/02/godwin-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a bit trite to  quote Martin Niemöller every time your government targets a new section of the workforce for cuts, or starts blaming a new segment of the population for all the woes of the rest of us. But when your government has mounted a dedicated campaign of what can only be described as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Mice and Cats</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2012/01/of-mice-and-cats/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2012/01/of-mice-and-cats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bastardry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have two cats. The first was rescued from a life on the streets, and was probably a feral kitten. Stouffer is still distinctly undergrown and much prefers stealing food to eating that which he&#8217;s given (although this may just be a commentary on Whiskas) The second was donated by a family who had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Christianity</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/12/british-christianity/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/12/british-christianity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bastardry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron has announced that Britain is a Christian country. That&#8217;s sort-of true &#8211; we have a state religion, even (the Church of England). But British Christianity, British religion, isn&#8217;t particularly zealous. Most of us don&#8217;t go to church (or mosque, or temple). We pay lip service to the religion that our parents had, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racists Are From Venus</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/12/racists-are-from-venus/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/12/racists-are-from-venus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bastardry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up and still live in inner-city Manchester, so I&#8217;m used to ethnic diversity. On the other hand, I went to (almost entirely white) Roman Catholic schools and I&#8217;ve got an xbox live account¹ so I&#8217;m &#8211; unfortunately &#8211; familiar with hateful racism². I&#8217;m distressingly familiar with the argument &#8220;I&#8217;m not racist, but&#8221; &#8211; which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could TV Shows Be Improved By Only Showing The Last 10 Mins?</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/12/could-tv-shows-be-improved-by-only-showing-the-last-10-mins/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/12/could-tv-shows-be-improved-by-only-showing-the-last-10-mins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blogmella</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bastardry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogmella]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my unending quest (I&#8217;ve just started it actually) to improve the quality and enjoyability of British TV viewing, I have decided to compile a list of TV shows that would be very much improved by only showing the last ten minutes of each of them. Here are the shows that I propose should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strike Action</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/11/strike-action/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/11/strike-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is a day of public sector strike action in the UK. The Great Strike of my generation, perhaps. I support it. (I&#8217;m going to write a bit more, but that&#8217;s going to be the gist, so if you&#8217;re in a hurry&#8230;) Strikes in general are important. The most powerful weapon the ordinary worker has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Occupy</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/11/occupy/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/11/occupy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bastardry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of protests going on all around the world right at the moment, which means that wherever you live you can&#8217;t have failed to notice that people are getting a bit pissed off with the ruling elite. I can&#8217;t argue with that. In Libya, Egypt and Syria &#8211; all across the Arab [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Tesco, ASDA, Sainsbury&#8217;s and Argos</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/11/an-open-letter/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/11/an-open-letter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As large UK companies serving the basic needs of Britain, you are responsible for employing hundreds of thousands of unskilled and semi-skilled workers &#8211; and keeping them employed throughout the recession. As large, profitable, companies, you are capable of providing jobs for our increasing numbers of unemployed &#8211; particularly school leavers and other young people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hijacking Remembrance</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/11/hijacking-remembrance/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/11/hijacking-remembrance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I quite like Remembrance Day. I donate to the Royal British Legion (only a couple of quid), I wear a poppy, I observe a silence. I remember and appreciate the sacrifices people made to create a country I could be proud of living in &#8211; one that battled intolerance, tyranny and segregation. I like that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Way Women Are Treated Online</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/11/the-way-women-are-treated-online/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/11/the-way-women-are-treated-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blogmella</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogmella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently there has been a great deal of debate about the way women are treated online.  Women bloggers have started to talk openly about the threats of sexual violence they receive, in response to their articles, and the way people attempt to degrade them, instead of debating with them. They say that whilst male bloggers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grand Theft Sociopaths</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/11/grand-theft-sociopaths/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/11/grand-theft-sociopaths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geekery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Currently trending on Twitter is the hashtag #GrandTheftAutoMemories &#8211; presumably because the trailer for GTA V has just been released. I&#8217;m quite a fan of the series, so I thought I&#8217;d have a look to see what people were saying. Don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s terrifying &#8211; the topic is moving pretty quickly, and every other post is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrounging</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/10/scrounging/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/10/scrounging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unemployment is on the rise again, and with it comes the rhetoric of the right. We hear talk of the &#8216;workshy&#8217;, we hear people on benefits referred to as &#8216;scroungers&#8217;, and of a &#8216;dependency culture&#8216; in which it is suggested that the unemployed just aren&#8217;t trying to find work. Mr Humphrys is neither the first nor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slacktivism</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/10/slacktivism/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/10/slacktivism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bastardry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1060</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a Facebook account. I&#8217;m not entirely sure why I have a Facebook account, because it basically alternates between boring the shit out of me and irritating me (hi, Facebook friends!) but I have one nevertheless. One of the things which is increasingly common on Facebook (and other social media &#8211; Google+, I&#8217;m looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heatwave</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/heatwave/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/heatwave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bastardry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1051</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just for the record, today is not &#8221;a glorious day&#8221;. Nor is it &#8220;a lovely day for a walk&#8221;, or a &#8220;pleasant extra bit of summer&#8221;. It is a grotesque travesty inflicted upon us by the unflinching, ever-burning daystar, which we must all endure with typical British stoicism. We should certainly not be running about enjoying the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avatar Dress-Up</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/avatar-dress-up/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/avatar-dress-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1032</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re familiar with Xbox Live then you&#8217;ll be aware that it allows you to make a little avatar of yourself and dress him how you please. This doesn&#8217;t achieve anything (there are a few games which use the xbox avatars, but they&#8217;re pretty universally shit); your avatar pretty much just exists as a representation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rubbish Old Games</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/rubbish-old-games/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/rubbish-old-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geekery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=1004</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Videogame companies enjoy rehashing old ideas; it saves time, effort and &#8211; most importantly - money. This is why we&#8217;ve started seeing two Call of Duty games each year, and way Microsoft refuse to allow the Halo series to have a dignified death. Gamers are to blame for this, too &#8211; &#8216;more of the same&#8217; is pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Representation Without Taxation</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/representation-without-taxation/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/representation-without-taxation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been some talk on the right about abolishing the 50% tax bracket for super-high earners. It&#8217;s hardly the first time any opposition to this has been voiced, but this time one of the people voicing his opposition is the Chancellor of the Exchequer &#8211; millionaire George &#8220;don&#8217;t call me Gideon&#8221; Osborne &#8211; so there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More site stuff</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/more-site-stuff/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/more-site-stuff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geekery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=930</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter feed fixed (by which I mean &#8216;different, less breakable plugin installed&#8217;). Posts should be G+ compatible now, too (I&#8217;ve had to go to the effort of creating a Google+ account for this, you know. Although I already had a gmail account, like everyone else on the planet, so &#8216;effort&#8217; might be going a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=922</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the tenth anniversary of September 11th today, and so a lot of Americans are talking about their memories of the day. Actually, a lot of non-Americans are talking about their memories of the day, too &#8211; I&#8217;m not going to start pretending it was a universally American event. The attacks were definitely an eye-opener [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Exams Too Easy?</title>
		<link>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/are-exams-too-easy/</link>
		<comments>http://soylentdave.com/2011/09/are-exams-too-easy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geekery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://soylentdave.com/?p=902</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My son has just completed his GCSEs, so I was paying a bit more attention this year to all the hue and cry about exam results &#8211; but I&#8217;ve not been immune to the fact that, for as long as I can recall, we&#8217;ve been saying that exams are getting easier. The other way of [...]]]></description>
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