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    <dc:date>2021-02-03T01:09:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I decided that I would combine excerpts from Johnson’s speeches with my images of the city, filmically relocating the centre of power from Parliament to the financial district of the City of London" ]]></description>
<dc:subject>film mubi covid19 politics uk</dc:subject>
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    <title>Leszek Borysiewicz attacks immigration curbs | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-02T22:48:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/02/cambridge-vice-chancellor-leszek-borysiewicz</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cambridge's vice-chancellor: 'A university such as Cambridge competes with Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, much more so than other UK universities, and therefore anything that prevents us getting the very best students I believe would be to the long-term detriment of the United Kingdom.']]></description>
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    <title>Where will we live?: The Housing Disaster | LRB</title>
    <dc:date>2013-12-29T02:25:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[James Meek, LRB: “The advent of the age of gentrification doesn’t preclude the advent of slumification” ]]></description>
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    <title>London Is Special, but Not That Special | NYTimes.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“There are more black and Asian people in just one London borough, Newham, than in the whole of Scotland.”  Nonetheless, this op-ed article suggests that London shouldn't get special immigration treatment (even though it admits that anti-immigrant feeling is unjustified).]]></description>
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    <title>Make no mistake, this is a sketch. Cue applause | Telegraph</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“most important of all: a reminder that I married a woman. [Gaze damply at woman, to applause.]” ]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Research shows public opinion often deviates from facts on key social issues including crime, benefit fraud and immigration"]]></description>
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    <title>Bird’s eye view from Network Rail's helicopter | rail.co</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Not only does G-NTWK earn its living, it does so all day, every day. It is equipped to inspect a variety of lineside structures and its ability to travel at speed over any terrain means that it is very effective indeed." Network Rail has a helicopter.]]></description>
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    <title>The joy of Essex | Rationalist Association</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Meades on Essex: 'The Essex I have known all my adult life... hauntingly photographed by Francis Hanly in our show The Joy of Essex, is a place of estuarine ooze, seawalls, pylons, Thames barges with sails the colour of dried blood, sail lofts, hoppers, hulks’ ribs, mussel shells, silos, tidal swell, saltings, epic skies, beached boats, causeways, marine scrap, isolated farmhouses, teetering pallet towers, marshes, ships looming over land and the ghostly vestiges of several utopias.']]></description>
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    <title>John Lanchester · Let’s call it failure | LRB</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Osborne’s single biggest economic ambition was to get the deficit down, but he hasn’t managed it, and has had to abandon his noisily announced target to get rid of most of the deficit in a single parliament. Gather round, children, and take a good look. This is the thing we call failure."]]></description>
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    <title>US politics today is as absurd as Britain's under George III | The Guardian</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I suggest we have nothing at all to learn about politics from across the Atlantic". Geoffrey Wheatcroft lays into the US constitution and political setup with fine form.]]></description>
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    <title>On Poppy Burning | Nick Harkaway</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-13T16:45:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nick-harkaway/poppy-burning_b_2116037.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/aug/22/britannia-unchained-rise-of-new-tory-right">
    <title>Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-22T20:41:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/aug/22/britannia-unchained-rise-of-new-tory-right</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['the foreign models cited are Asian, and the underlying message for Britons is relentless: raw capitalism is the only game in town, and you need to start working much harder. "We can all graft," says Raab.']]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/08/stella-creasy-perfect-storm-coming?newsfeed=true">
    <title>Stella Creasy: 'You can see a perfect storm coming' | Politics | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-14T20:59:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/08/stella-creasy-perfect-storm-coming?newsfeed=true</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Labour MP for Walthamstow has made a name by campaigning against payday loans – an example of her traditional approach to fighting for the dispossessed, she says."]]></description>
<dc:subject>labour walthamstow uk stellacreasy politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/23/osborne-budget-vicious-attack-regions">
    <title>Osborne's budget contains a vicious attack on the regions | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-24T02:35:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/23/osborne-budget-vicious-attack-regions</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Karel Williams: "this was a budget against the north and west, with a vicious and undisclosed regional agenda which has attracted almost no attention – even though output per head in the disadvantaged regions is less than half that in London. And doesn't the failure of coalition backbenches, and Labour, to raise this economic issue, tell us a lot about present-day politics? After the decline of mass parties with strong regional bases, Westminster politics is today all about metropolitan cliques pitching to southern swing voters."]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk politics budget region economics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/19/david-cameron-privatisation-roads?CMP=twt_gu">
    <title>Roads privatisation: are we going round in circles? | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-20T23:30:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/19/david-cameron-privatisation-roads?CMP=twt_gu</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Joe Moran: "I think we've been here before, skirting the issue of road pricing and using the notion we are 'falling behind' to push privatisation." A longer view.]]></description>
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    <title>Ambient bus arrival monitor | John Graham-Cumming</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-19T22:50:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from-hacked.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Using a  Linksys WRT54GL, a Sparkfun 7-segment LED block, and a slightly dismembered model of a Plaxton Pointer single-deck bus to make a display of when the next bus is due. Nice.]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk london transport bus buses display datavis ambient via:russelldavies</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/01/railway-engineering-nuts-bolts-beauty">
    <title>Railway engineering: the nuts and bolts of hidden beauty | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-05T04:39:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/01/railway-engineering-nuts-bolts-beauty</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sarah Bakewell: "Once I saw merely bridges, tunnels and stations, and mostly I didn't even notice these, so busy was I rushing to get over or through them. Now, I see a delicate ecosystem of rivets, cleats, plates, gussets, joggles, spans, arches, ribs of attenuated iron and steel. Scholars can already study railway archives in repositories all over the country, but Network Rail has just put part of its beautiful archive of Victorian and Edwardian infrastructure diagrams on the web."]]></description>
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    <title>The lull of the Shipping Forecast | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-18T03:53:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17065521</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['The Shipping Forecast may provide vital weather information to sea captains and sailors, but some of the most devoted fans are those who listen to it for its poetic quality.
'"Only recently, some Americans came in, listened to the broadcast and said, 'Well, we don't understand a word of that but it was terrific. Could we have a recording of that to go back and play in our office? No one would believe us otherwise'."']]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9061844/India-tells-Britain-We-dont-want-your-aid.html">
    <title>India tells Britain: We don't want your aid | Telegraph</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-05T15:56:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9061844/India-tells-Britain-We-dont-want-your-aid.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Pranab Mukherjee and other Indian ministers tried to terminate Britain’s aid to their booming country last year - but relented after the British begged them to keep taking the money.' 'Last week India rejected the British-built Typhoon jet as preferred candidate for a £6.3 billion warplane deal, despite the Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, saying that Britain’s aid to Delhi was partly “about seeking to sell Typhoon.”']]></description>
<dc:subject>twitter ifttt uk india aid politics defence trade via:@bruces</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.simonsellars.com/sealand-on-the-heap">
    <title>Sealand: On the Heap | Simon Sellars</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-01T05:45:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.simonsellars.com/sealand-on-the-heap</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Sealand has never embraced tourism or outsiders, enhancing the mystique. So when I learnt they were accepting applications for tourist visas, I was amazed. As co-author of Lonely Planet’s recent guide to homemade nations, this, for me, was the grail: a chance to visit the world’s most notorious micronation."]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk sealand tourism datahaven suffolk</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://citywire.co.uk/money/city-braced-for-rubbish-news/a561292">
    <title>City braced for rubbish news | Citywire Money</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-30T11:09:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://citywire.co.uk/money/city-braced-for-rubbish-news/a561292</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Renew currently has 50 bin/screen units in the heart of London, and this will rise to 200 in time for the Olympics. The company calls the idea 'the first of a new generation of “on-the-go” media', and says the editorial team behind the plan will cover breaking news, weather, the arts and sports."]]></description>
<dc:subject>twitter ifttt uk screens advertising dooh via:antimega</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/84bf7ca6-3c0b-11e1-bb39-00144feabdc0.html">
    <title>British Institutions: London Underground | FT.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-17T03:54:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/84bf7ca6-3c0b-11e1-bb39-00144feabdc0.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Matthew Engel: "This is the sixth in my irregular series on British Institutions. After I finished the fifth, I noticed that the themes were becoming familiar: [...] the glory days were over; it was a fight to maintain popularity and relevance; and money was getting ever tighter." "But London Underground is different. It is more expansive and confident now than at any time in memory. How on earth has this happened?" Nice photographs too.]]></description>
<dc:subject>london underground tube infrastructure funding uk institution business</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://gigaom.com/2012/01/09/netflix-is-about-to-discover-that-britain-bites-back/?awesm=awe.sm_5d7TB">
    <title>Netflix is about to discover that Britain bites back | GigaOM</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-12T06:00:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://gigaom.com/2012/01/09/netflix-is-about-to-discover-that-britain-bites-back/?awesm=awe.sm_5d7TB</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bobbie Johnson: "From the outside, the British and Irish market looks like a vast patchwork of services and providers: perfect territory for a big, swaggering giant to come in and clean up. In fact, the truth is just the opposite: For Netflix to get anything like the success it has had in America, it will need to find out a way to get around Rupert Murdoch and the BBC, two of the world’s most powerful media forces. They have no reason to work with Netflix and every reason to actively work against it."]]></description>
<dc:subject>television netflix uk sky bbc murdoch broadcasting internet</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.carboncommentary.com/2012/01/03/2233">
    <title>If the Grid can cope with today, it can cope with everything | Carbon Commentary</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-04T23:53:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.carboncommentary.com/2012/01/03/2233</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The UK’s electricity market is far from perfect, but it is quite robust enough to handle a near hurricane, followed by unexpected falls in wind speed. What further demonstrations that wind turbines are effective providers of electricity could possibly be required?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk electricity energy power grid renewableenergy generation nationalgrid via:tomtaylor</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:10d2a7a2829f/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>My dying friend found kindness to be the rule, not the exception | The Observer</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-18T09:02:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/11/henry-porter-gilbert-adair-on-human-kindness?CMP=twt_gu</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Henry Porter in the Observer on the care Gilbert Adair received from the NHS in his final year.]]></description>
<dc:subject>nhs health healthcare uk politics death via:@joemoransblog</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/12/britain-ruled-by-banks">
    <title>Britain is ruled by the banks, for the banks | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-12T20:34:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/12/britain-ruled-by-banks</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Aditya Chakrabortty: "Both the evidence and the voters are against investment bankers. So why do the politicians cling on to them? Part of the answer is financial.  ... the City now provides half of all Tory party funds. That is up from just 25% only five years ago." "Running this government are two sons of bankers. Cameron's father was a stockbroker, Clegg's is still chairman of United Trust Bank."

(Side note: the picture is of Canary Wharf, part of the City-as-finance but not City-as-geography or City-as-government. It's arguably more photogenic, though.)]]></description>
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    <title>Programming should take pride of place in our schools | The Observer</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-06T17:44:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/04/ict-national-curriculum-john-naughton</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taught, we're shutting the door on our children's futures." John Naughton on why people shouldn't just be learning programming, but learning why software is so important.]]></description>
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    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/05/stonehenge-illuminating</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ian Vince: "Modern highway building, and its representation on maps, has conspired to make us view landscapes as the interstitial blocks between roads, the white spaces in the road atlas. The dominant feature in the Stonehenge landscape, as revealed by a glance at any route map of the area, is that of a pennant pointing east formed by the A303 and two other major roads; it is only the neolithic and bronze age remains, spattered like grapeshot across the white spaces of an Ordnance Survey sheet, that break this uncompromising geometry."]]></description>
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    <title>Every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010 | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-05T18:56:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15975720</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A total of 36,371 people were killed on Britain's roads between 1999 and 2010."]]></description>
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    <title>Elizabeth Truss in a calculated move on maths | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-02T01:23:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-15994164</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On calculators in school: [[ [Truss] had an example of a question set for 11-year-olds in which a calculator was allowed: "These are some prices in a flower shop. Tulips: £1.20 for a bunch; roses: 40p each; daffodils, 55p for a bunch. How many roses can you buy for exactly £2?" ]] Lest you think she's a luddite: [[ "I was a mainstay of my school computer club, and I was happy to spend time programming in BASIC." ]]]]></description>
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    <title>Osborne's autumn statement Britain worse than the 1970s | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-30T23:34:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What Britain is living through now is worse than the decade that gave us the three-day week and winter of discontent."]]></description>
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    <title>29/11/11 - A turning point in British history | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-30T21:18:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15964306</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Plan A then was based on three, linked, wrong premises: that Britain could quickly switch to a private, export led model; that the economy is bigger than it actually is; and that consumption could survive the inflation surge imported by the Bank of England."]]></description>
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    <title>Free museum entry is a treasure too precious to lose | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-30T03:31:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian on free museum entry for national museums, the route to it, and regional museums too.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://timharford.com/2011/11/back-to-the-glory-days-of-northern-rock/">
    <title>Back to the glory days of Northern Rock | Tim Harford</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-30T01:22:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://timharford.com/2011/11/back-to-the-glory-days-of-northern-rock/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is surely the stupidest imaginable way to stimulate house building." On the UK government and its attempts to kickstart the housing market.]]></description>
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    <title>A Point of View: In praise of wind turbines | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-21T20:56:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15295769</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The countryside is often a man-made landscape, not a natural idyll, and wind turbines are just part of that tradition, writes Will Self." A good read.]]></description>
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    <title>Why doesn't Britain make things any more? | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-17T23:04:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/16/why-britain-doesnt-make-things-manufacturing</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the past 30 years, the UK's manufacturing sector has shrunk by two-thirds, the greatest de-industrialisation of any major nation. It was done in the name of economic modernisation – but what has replaced it?"]]></description>
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    <title>The signals to motorists are setting a dangerous course | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-07T19:20:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/06/government-intensely-relaxed-traffic-deaths</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Peter Wilby in the Guardian on cars, fatalities, and the coalition Government's messages to motorists.]]></description>
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    <title>HCI Diary: Observation of public transport | Tom Hume</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-03T05:11:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tomhume.org/2011/10/hci-diary-observation-of-public-transport.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><dc:subject>uk trains transport interface</dc:subject>
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    <title>This unaccountable Corporation is ripe for protest | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-01T19:28:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/31/corporation-london-city-medieval</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[George Monbiot on the Corporation of the City of London.]]></description>
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    <title>Prince Charles offered a veto over 12 government | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-30T22:43:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/prince-charles-offered-veto-legislation?cat=uk&amp;type=article</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[via @bobbiejohnson, who noted "this is for anyone I've discussed the royal family with recently. They aren't just celebrities or figureheads".]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14783135">
    <title>Plan to revive 1970s UK satellite | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-06T03:51:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14783135</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On attempts to talk to Prospero for its fortieth birthday, and the hazards therein (such as figuring out how to, when the group that maintained it has been broken up for most of that time). (Sidenote: Britain is the only country to have developed an independent launch to orbit technology... and then abandoned it.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk history technology space forgetting via:andym</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:9059cb12dd08/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:space"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9502fab6-d374-11e0-9d6a-00144feab49a.html#axzz1WorY3yg7">
    <title>Street life | FT.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-02T20:01:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9502fab6-d374-11e0-9d6a-00144feab49a.html#axzz1WorY3yg7</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Daniel Meadows’ images of working-class communities in 1970s Britain bear witness to the reinvention of the craft and purpose of photography." Well worth a read, this, on photography, documentation, and working class communities.]]></description>
<dc:subject>photography danielmeadows martinparr uk history 1970s manchester via:@joemoransblog</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:ea6a9ebe1f1f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:martinparr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:uk"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/28/ict-changes-needed-national-curriculum">
    <title>Kids today need a licence to tinker | Technology | The Observer</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-30T20:01:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/28/ict-changes-needed-national-curriculum</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A great piece from John Naughton in the Observer, hanging off the back of the Eric Schmidt lecture at Edinburgh but (rightly) critiquing too much British computing education as being about learning Word, not learning programming, and highlighting Arduino and the forthcoming Raspberry Pi £15 Linux computer.]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk technology education programming arduino linux computing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:5e9b958884c6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/21/business-case-hs2-rail-link-questioned">
    <title>Business case for HS2 rail link questioned | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-29T22:06:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/21/business-case-hs2-rail-link-questioned</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["the Queen is reported to be worried about the proposed [HS2] route, with Prince Andrew said to have raised the issue with Treasury officials last year on account of his mother's concern that passing trains would upset her horses at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire, which hosts the Royal Show." Maybe Charles isn't that unlike Elizabeth after all.]]></description>
<dc:subject>railway uk monarchy politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:3a182871297c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://vintageposterblog.com/2011/07/20/dont-mention-all-of-the-war/">
    <title>What the Home Front posters of WW2 still mean for us today | Quad Royal</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-22T02:46:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://vintageposterblog.com/2011/07/20/dont-mention-all-of-the-war/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There were a huge number of posters produced during the war, and so the relatively few we pick out end up telling us as much about ourselves and our present day anxieties as it does about the war." A really good essay at Quad Royal on WW2 posters and what they mean to us now. (I'd love to see a similar post for the US, too.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk poster art propaganda society austerity modernism design via:mondoagogo</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:d90ecfb9672a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporation-city">
    <title>New Statesman - The tax haven in the heart of Britain</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-14T02:08:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporation-city</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There is an institution with a murky history and remarkable powers that acts like a political and financial island within our island nation state. Welcome to the Square Mile and the City of London Corporation.]]></description>
<dc:subject>london cityoflondon economics politics power tax economy uk</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:8428e4742202/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2008/11/power-down.html">
    <title>Power Down | diamond geezer</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-24T15:51:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2008/11/power-down.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From the archives (via Tom Taylor), diamond geezer on taking down the pylons around the Olympic site in Stratford.]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk london ihatetheolympics stratford pylons infrastructure via:tomtaylor</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:bf50dcee1a78/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.gorge.org/pylons/structure.shtml">
    <title>The Gorge - Electricity Pylon Design</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-24T07:04:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.gorge.org/pylons/structure.shtml</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Flash Bristow's guide to the changes in British pylon design over the last eighty years or so. This was the best bit of another Jonathan Glancey Guardian piece: http://gu.com/p/2p972/]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk design architecture infrastructure electricity energy guide pylons</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:a69d4bfb358b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13473408">
    <title>Could pylons ever be pretty? | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-23T22:57:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13473408</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The BBC, starting from a false premise (that pylons aren't pretty already) and going down a complete blind alley (some unbuilt, anthropomorphic, and awful designs) before revealing a couple of interesting nuggets (like the name of the chap who designed the UK's current pylons). Still, overall worth a read.]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk infrastructure energy electricity pylons design via:candacep</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:b11c2a091f69/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:design"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12593061">
    <title>Product placement ban on British TV lifted | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-28T19:56:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12593061</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Paid-for references to products and services are now permitted for the first time in shows produced in the UK, including soaps and one-off dramas."]]></description>
<dc:subject>television uk media advertising ofcom europe via:kevan</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:4dcce4e391b8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:advertising"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:ofcom"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/arts/design/26abroad.html?adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1296100871-Bu67jcX8S7hBzRB2dI5YPw&amp;pagewanted=all">
    <title>David Wojnarowicz Ruckus, as Viewed From Britain | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-27T04:05:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/arts/design/26abroad.html?adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1296100871-Bu67jcX8S7hBzRB2dI5YPw&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It has something to do with the ideal of the American Everyman. As with the military or medicine, so with museums, we are by national inclination meddlers. Europeans are not, which is why they have reacted to the Smithsonian flap with the same mildly appalled bafflement that they express toward American opposition to the health care bill. It all seems inexplicable to them." The NYT on Wojnarowicz, Sensation, Tate, the Smithsonian, and attitudes. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>art culture nytimes newspapers comment uk us europe</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:05e4e948bc7d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://vintageposterblog.com/2011/01/21/spacing-oddity/">
    <title>Railway Alphabet by Kinnear and Calvert | Quad Royal</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-22T03:14:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://vintageposterblog.com/2011/01/21/spacing-oddity/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Spacing rules for Rail Alphabet, discovered recently. Lovely.]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk design typography railways poster</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:3c1fb4723a19/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://motortorque.askaprice.com/articles/auto-1012/food-on-the-move-our-peculiar-relationship-with-service-stations.asp">
    <title>Our peculiar relationship with service stations | Motortorque</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-14T03:04:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://motortorque.askaprice.com/articles/auto-1012/food-on-the-move-our-peculiar-relationship-with-service-stations.asp</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We can all expect to have to pull into a motorway service station from time-to-time." An interview with the author of Food on the Move.]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk motorway architecture food culture modernism 1960s book interview</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f78d92f99942/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://joemoransblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/short-history-of-bus-shelter.html">
    <title>A brief history of the bus shelter | Joe Moran's blog</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-13T03:03:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://joemoransblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/short-history-of-bus-shelter.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Bus shelters were once boringly functional affairs." Then advertising got involved.]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk transport bus infrastructure mundane</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:a362a81ac4ad/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11949767">
    <title>BBC News - Stargazing and dark sky tourism</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-03T17:49:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11949767</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BBC News Magazine on dark skies and stagazing tourism. "These sights will be explored in BBC Two's Stargazing Live this week, timed to coincide with the meteor shower and partial eclipse."]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy uk news bbc tourism stargazing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f0efa5816907/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2010/12/snow-charities-britain">
    <title>Snow scuppers Camerons big society | New Statesman</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-21T16:02:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2010/12/snow-charities-britain</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[via joemoransblog: "Nice piece about snow and the big society by Alice Miles".]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk weather politics culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:9b49798e0237/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>David Runciman · Look… | LRB</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-16T15:20:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n24/david-runciman/look</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In a hung parliament, should the MPs who hold the balance of power side with the party that came first in the election, or the party that came second?" An interesting, if short, review of David Laws' book about the coalition horsetrading.]]></description>
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    <title>The Smoke A London Peculiar Board Game | Soho</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-08T19:34:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://home2.btconnect.com/smoke/PAGES/SOHO/sohohome.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Soho! is a game of skill and judgement for 2-6 players of all ages inspired by the two things for which this small, historic patch of London is famous around the globe: its pubs, and its one-way system." Nice. (I miss the magazines, though. Ah well.)]]></description>
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    <title>LRB · Stefan Collini · Browne’s Gamble</title>
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    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n21/stefan-collini/brownes-gamble</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[strangePLperson: one and only Stefan Collini on education cuts in LRB: http://t.co/wFzMcfK]]></description>
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    <title>New approaches to landscape appreciation | DH2010</title>
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    <link>http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/academic-programme/abstracts/papers/html/ab-676.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It may be therefore that modern visitors to the Lake District, at least as represented by people who upload geo-tagged photographs to Flickr, follow a tour that is more like the Picturesque tours of Gray than the Romantic experiences of Coleridge or Wordsworth." A non-paywalled summary of the research I posted a couple of days ago.]]></description>
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    <title>Home Page | Mapping the Lakes</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-21T00:19:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lancs.ac.uk/mappingthelakes/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["'Mapping the Lakes' is a collaborative and explorative research project. Funded by the British Academy, the pilot project tests whether Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology can be used to further the understanding of the literature of place and space."]]></description>
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    <title>Mapping the English Lake District: a literary GIS | Transactions</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Drawing on work carried out as part of an interdisciplinary project, ‘Mapping the Lakes’, the paper focuses on the ways in which GIS can be used to explore the spatial relationships between two textual accounts of tours of the English Lake District: the proto-Picturesque journey undertaken by the poet, Thomas Gray, in the autumn of 1769; and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s self-consciously post-Picturesque ‘circumcursion’ of August 1802." Published in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.]]></description>
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    <title>In praise of … mapping the nation | The Guardian</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[""Many excellent books have been written about Lakeland but the best literature of all for the walker has been published by the Director General of the Ordnance Survey," Alfred Wainwright wrote over half a century ago in the introduction to his pictorial guides to the Lake District."]]></description>
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    <title>Design Research Unit: the firm that branded Britain | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-18T15:34:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/12/design-research-unit-branding-britain</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You may not have heard of Britain's most successful design group, but signs of its work can still be seen on streets, pubs, railways and tube stations – quite literally" Make sure to check out the gallery, especially the crazy South Bank architecture plan.]]></description>
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    <title>Correspondent's diary: Ascension Island | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-06T20:58:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/node/17082686?story_id=17082686</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Speaking of Ascension, this Economist correspondent's diary (annoyingly, reverse-chronological) is well worth a read. "Ascension Island turns on its head the old sailors’ folklore about islands that move from place to place. It sits still, but the world shifts around it in a way that sometimes, unexpectedly, put Ascension Island between an A and a B that people want to get to."]]></description>
<dc:subject>economist article islands uk culture</dc:subject>
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    <title>Train fares: From him that hath shall be taken | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-27T11:55:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/node/16847108?story_id=16847108</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the likelihood of fare rises for British rail. "Railways have enjoyed a renaissance over the past decade. Passenger numbers have surged and are now at their highest since the second world war." "Yet rail travel is a niche interest. It accounts for just 7% of all journeys."]]></description>
<dc:subject>economist trains uk rail fares transport</dc:subject>
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    <title>Transport funding: Collision course | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-27T11:53:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/node/16743055?story_id=16743055</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Speaking of TfL: "With only a few months until publication of the government’s spending review, which will decide which parts of government live and which parts die, the lobbying is in full swing. Particularly fierce arguments are raging around the Department for Transport (DfT), which must make cuts of 25% or more in its budget. That is provoking rows, both nationally and locally." Complete with that old chestnut, Crossrail vs the Tube.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economist london dft tfl crossrail tube transport uk</dc:subject>
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    <title>An appreciation of MySociety’s MapIt service | Unlock</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-27T20:08:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://unlock.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2010/07/27/an-appreciation-of-mysocietys-mapit-service/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I will confess to mild chagrin, because as well as having all these wonderful properties, MapIt does almost everything that Unlock Places does for Boundary-Line and Code-Point."]]></description>
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    <title>Mapping points and postcodes to areas | mySociety</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-27T20:04:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mysociety.org/2010/07/26/mapping-points-and-postcodes/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I’m very pleased to announce that mySociety’s upgraded point and postcode lookup service, MaPit, is public and available to all. It can tell you about administrative areas, such as councils, Welsh Assembly constituencies, or civil parishes, by various different lookups including name, point, or postcode."]]></description>
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    <title>Facebook, Electoral Commission launch voter push | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-09T09:17:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8610298.stm</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In a tie-up with the Electoral Commission, Facebook users who visit the site over the weekend will be asked if they have registered to vote."]]></description>
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