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		<title>Why Conservatives are green</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/why-conservatives-are-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Ainsworth MP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I struggle to understand why environmental politics are traditionally regarded as left-wing.  They are not.  The environment is the only place that we have.  The place where we live matters to us; in our local communities and in the wider world.  It is all about respect and stewardship.
Disputes about the science of manmade climate change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the &#8216;Match of the Day&#8217; approach might not be so silly for Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/why-the-match-of-the-day-approach-might-not-be-so-silly-for-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I read this morning about Brown and his failed attempt to appear on Match of the Day I tried hard to feel the contempt for his cynical PR ploy that the newspapers suggested I feel. Instead I felt a strange kind of admiration for such blatant opportunism and the willingness of the PM and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A post-bureaucratic manifesto</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/a-post-bureaucratic-manifesto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/a-post-bureaucratic-manifesto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Melville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the discussion I had with David Cameron (results available in Company magazine, March issue, on sale at all good newsagents from 13 March) revolved around the Tories&#8217; publication of draft manifesto chapters.
He said:
&#8220;We’ve launched it draft chapter by draft chapter, on the internet, with people then coming up with their ideas and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Exchange: Specialising in special needs</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/policy-exchange-specialising-in-special-needs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/policy-exchange-specialising-in-special-needs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy Exchange</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, Ed Balls announced the Government’s response to the ‘Salt Review’ into the supply of teachers for pupils with severe and complex learning difficulties. Balls argued, and rightly so, that the Government needs to attract and incentivise graduates to specialise in teaching children with some of the most challenging needs.
However, children with severe and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Exchange: Auntie under the spotlight</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/policy-exchange-auntie-under-the-spotlight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/policy-exchange-auntie-under-the-spotlight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy Exchange</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC’s latest strategy report  - leaked in the Times ten days ago and released last week as a result – suggests that with a General Election looming ever nearer Auntie is at last waking up and smelling the coffee.
In January this year Policy Exchange published a major report on the future of broadcasting,Changing the Channel, which argued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Exchange: Stirring up cynicism</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/policy-exchange-stirring-up-cynicism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/policy-exchange-stirring-up-cynicism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policy Exchange</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most political news is about personality and politics rather than policy.  At the moment that’s particularly true – the big stories of recent weeks have been about Brown’s behaviour, Lord Ashcroft, what the polls say.  Next week promises more of the same – a Channel 4 programme on Cameron, and the court appearance of some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Necessity is the mother of invention</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Melville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quality of Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Localism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph has a fantastic article about rubbish in Bali today.
I know &#8211; not exactly something you are desperately keen to read over breakfast, but necessary: this recycling plant in Bali takes in 140 lorryloads of waste a week, and only properly throws away 10. This is exactly the kind of thing we need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education reform, not kneejerk populism, addresses fears about immigration</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/education-reform-not-kneejerk-populism-addresses-fears-about-immigration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/education-reform-not-kneejerk-populism-addresses-fears-about-immigration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governments are under enormous pressure especially in Britain where both main political parties are pressing for immigration to be an issue at the next general election with a race to the bottom of who can impose the strictest controls. They face conflicting pressures: significant levels of resistance to increased immigration in public opinion on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Foot R.I.P.  The Last Of The Great Radical Romantics</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/michael-foot-r-i-p-the-last-of-the-great-radical-romantics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/michael-foot-r-i-p-the-last-of-the-great-radical-romantics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Skelton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have lost one of the political greats today.
We mustn’t remember Michael Foot for his leadership of the Labour Party.  He was, in so many ways, ill-suited to the demands of leading a modern political party.  But the fact is that the Labour Party in the early 1980s was verging on being unleadable and Michael [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the Heffer Challenge: Public perceptions of the Tories</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/taking-the-heffer-challenge-public-perceptions-of-the-tories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/taking-the-heffer-challenge-public-perceptions-of-the-tories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betapolitics</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do the Tories stand for? The charge that the Conservatives have not made clear what they stand for has been slowly gathering momentum ironically ever since the Conservatives started their ‘one a week’ policy series. Right wing commentators who are fearful that a Cameron Conservative government will not govern in an appropriately conservative enough [...]]]></description>
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