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		<title>Its a question of trust</title>
		<link>http://dianamsmith.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/its-a-question-of-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today 07/07/10. I have just finished listening to Prime Minister’s Question Time. David Cameron answered a question from Harriet Harman on Crime with a whole string of statistics to show that violent crime had risen under Labour. Harriet Harman, in my view rightly, vigorously contested this. I am seriously concerned by this. During the early [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dianamsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6390453&amp;post=389&amp;subd=dianamsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The first bad news day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 15:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say that I watch Andy Coulson would of course be misleading. The whole point about Andy Coulson is that he is someone we do not see, doing things that we do not know. I may not watch him, but since his appearance in front of the press standard’s committee, I have been aware of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dianamsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6390453&amp;post=379&amp;subd=dianamsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown &#8211; the web as a power for good</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dianasmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[creating change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often we force our politicians to be heard only in soundbites. It is no wonder that we sometimes complain that they are saying nothing meaningful. This video is I think Gordon Brown speaking as he likes to speak, to a live audience, with his own voice and in his own time. Posted in creating change, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dianamsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6390453&amp;post=369&amp;subd=dianamsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Going on Boar Hunt!</title>
		<link>http://dianamsmith.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/were-going-on-boar-hunt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dianasmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A speaker at a conference on ageing I went to recently explained why it is that women live longer than men. Apparently it’s because of the boar hunting. Women’s immune systems work better than men’s because with our ancestors women regularly went through periods of semi starvation. This happened because we valued the aggression and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dianamsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6390453&amp;post=365&amp;subd=dianamsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So What&#8217;s the worst that can happen?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dianasmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just been picking up on a number of interesting things. Here is a chart of the priorities  identified by the conservative party prospective candidates. This is to be found in Conservative Home. It is not surprising that concerns about the deficit come far higher up the list than measures to improve services. A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dianamsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6390453&amp;post=360&amp;subd=dianamsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The donation to Andrew Lansley&#8217;s office raises uncomfortable issues.</title>
		<link>http://dianamsmith.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/the-donation-to-andrew-lansleys-office-raises-uncomfortable-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a heated discussion going on about the Telegraph’s discovery of a £21,000 donation to the office of Andrew Lansley, the Shadow Minister for Health. It has been made by a well wisher who happens to be involved in the private health industry, and it raises understandable concerns There is nothing new of course [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dianamsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6390453&amp;post=355&amp;subd=dianamsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did the world over-react to swine flue?</title>
		<link>http://dianamsmith.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/did-the-world-over-react-to-swine-flue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just been watching Newsnight&#8217;s piece on did the world over-react to swine flu? Why is it that we all believed there were to be many thousands of deaths when in fact only 250 people have died. Why is it that so much money has been spent on drugs, with all the clever clauses in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dianamsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6390453&amp;post=352&amp;subd=dianamsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How do we get dignity in care?</title>
		<link>http://dianamsmith.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/how-do-we-get-dignity-in-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am just listening to Michael Parkinson on You and Yours with regard to Dignity in Care. This is an issue I have been deeply interested in for many years, partly as a result of my own experience coping with my mother&#8217;s 8 years of dementia. There are many real concerns about how we do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dianamsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6390453&amp;post=348&amp;subd=dianamsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How can we hear when the people speak?</title>
		<link>http://dianamsmith.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/how-can-we-hear-when-the-people-speak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all of us who want an election that is fought on the issues, the challenge of making this happen can at times seem daunting. I have seen enough on the doorsteps at Crewe, a local by-election, and what came out of the polling boxes in June to show me what happens when we are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dianamsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6390453&amp;post=340&amp;subd=dianamsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We can’t go on like this Dave!</title>
		<link>http://dianamsmith.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/we-can%e2%80%99t-go-on-like-this-dave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The hoardings have gone up. A large head shot of David Cameron with “we can’t go on like this” all over the country. The prospect of five whole months of electioneering is not an appealing one. Today I tuned in to hear David Cameron deliver his press release on the Health service. I did this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dianamsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6390453&amp;post=335&amp;subd=dianamsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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