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		<title>David Willetts MP responds to Boris and baby boomers</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2010/03/10/david-willetts-responds-to-boris-and-baby-boomers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not an attack on the baby-boomer generation;  it is instead an appeal to the better nature of the boomers – an appeal to Edmund Burke&#8217;s understanding that a nation is &#8220;a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boris on Question Time</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2010/03/02/boris-on-question-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch Question Time this Thursday 4th March on BBC 1 at 10.35pm
Question Time, the BBC&#8217;s premier political debate programme comes from Canary Wharf this week.  David Dimbleby will be joined in London by Boris Johnson, Liberal Democrat peer Shirley Williams, broadcaster Carol Vorderman, the novelist Will Self and the Transport Secretary Lord Adonis.
Question Time will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Behaviour</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2010/02/23/the-prime-ministers-behaviour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2010/02/23/the-prime-ministers-behaviour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=3332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford, let&#8217;s have another little song thanks to Dungeekin
New Labour&#8217;s legacy is money and blood,
Under them this country has been dragged through the mud,
The damage began with Grinning Tone,
Now the PM&#8217;s weak and it&#8217;s all gone wrong,

Now with Gordon Brown, what do you get
Rage and spin and a country in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown and Alternative Voting</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2010/02/09/gordon-brown-and-alternative-voting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2010/02/09/gordon-brown-and-alternative-voting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Downing Street has admitted &#8220;time is tight&#8221; to get laws for a referendum on scrapping Britain&#8217;s first past the post voting system through Parliament.  Gordon Brown wants to replace it with &#8220;alternative vote,&#8221; where candidates are ranked in order of preference.  The Prime Minister says this is a better way of choosing MPs but the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Billy Bragg to withhold taxes in bank bonus row</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2010/01/19/billy-bragg-to-withhold-taxes-in-bank-bonus-row/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2010/01/19/billy-bragg-to-withhold-taxes-in-bank-bonus-row/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singer-songwriter and political activist says he is &#8216;no longer prepared to fund the excessive bonuses of RBS investment bankers&#8217;.  Read the story here.
Boris quote on the tax on bank bonuses:  &#8220;The Government is doing nothing more than fast-tracking the departure of this talent pool out of Britain&#8221;.
Here, with a satirical twist, is Dungeekin with his [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Merry Christmas 09</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/12/21/merry-christmas-09/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/12/21/merry-christmas-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guido is like Santa Claus, or so he claims.  See his very funny video with top ten political moments here
And further satire from our resident friend Dungeekin here
Inspired by Dungeekin is a brilliant &#8217;cheery Christmas Song&#8217; by Man Widdicombe here or with the lyrics here
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		<title>The Challenge of Housing and Homelessness</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/12/16/the-challenge-of-housing-and-homelessness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/12/16/the-challenge-of-housing-and-homelessness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Blog by raincoaster - presenting a challenge
“The view is more beautiful now that it is mine.” Ran
I can be challenging. Boris knows it, Melissa knows it, the nation of Albania knows it, I know it, you know it (well you know now, don’t you?). So I’d like to put this inherent challengenosity (a raincoasterism) of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jo Johnson is the Candidate for Orpington</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/12/13/jo-johnson-is-the-candidate-for-orpington/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/12/13/jo-johnson-is-the-candidate-for-orpington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boris&#8217;s brother has just won the selection to stand in the safe Conservative seat of Orpington where the current MP, John Horam, is standing down.
Stanley, his father, recently described him as &#8220;taller and blonder than Boris&#8221; and he is the Financial Times’ South Asia bureau chief.  Based in New Delhi since January 2005, he leads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Queen&#8217;s Speech 2009 (The Mikado)</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/11/18/the-queens-speech-2009-the-mikado/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/11/18/the-queens-speech-2009-the-mikado/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dungeekin provides a musical rendition on the Queen&#8217;s Speech this afternoon
Many of the original words are resonant today.
In a break from Tradition, this year saw Her Majesty the Queen deliver the speech at the State Opening of Parliament not in words, but instead in song:
As each year for the Government a speech one must propound,
One&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Green Spaces in London (and New York)</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/11/11/green-spaces-in-london-and-new-york/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/11/11/green-spaces-in-london-and-new-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mayor believes parks and open spaces are key to the capital’s quality of life, and will invest over £220 in a new drive to improve London&#8217;s Great Outdoors &#8211; see the new Manifesto for Public Spaces unveiled on 16th November 2009.
Previously £6 million was spent in improving the quality and safety of London&#8217;s parks, [...]]]></description>
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