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		<title>Surpluses, Budgets, Parliament, and Accountability Down Under (Australia): some random thoughts</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/19/surpluses-budgets-parliament-and-accountability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 02:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in Australia as &#8220;Accenture-Crawford School Distinguished Visiting Professor&#8221; at Australian National University in Canberra. Many thanks to both Accenture and the excellent Crawford School of Public Policy. I&#8217;ve been doing a fascinating series of meetings, seminars and lectures &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/19/surpluses-budgets-parliament-and-accountability/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2390&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Business has forfeited the confidence of the Government and can win it back only by working harder</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/13/business-has-forfeited-the-confidence-of-the-government-and-can-win-it-back-only-by-working-harder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 19:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Hague (a well known after dinner raconteur and sometime Foreign Secretary) and other Ministers have launched an assault on business people for not working hard enough. Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Hague said: &#8220;There&#8217;s only one growth strategy: work &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/13/business-has-forfeited-the-confidence-of-the-government-and-can-win-it-back-only-by-working-harder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2386&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Do You Think You Are?</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/12/who-do-you-think-you-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 13:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apology, this has nothing to do with Whitehall or Public Management, but here goes anyway&#8230;.. Owen (”Chavs”) Jones started a discussion on Twitter to glorify his and others ancestors who’d been involved in what, to him, we&#8217;re worthy pursuits like &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/12/who-do-you-think-you-are/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2383&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Poor Performers’ in the Civil Service &#8211; blame the poor bloody infantry</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/12/poor-performers-in-the-civil-service-blame-the-poor-bloody-infantry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 00:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office Minister, says it should be just as easy to sack badly performing Civil Servant’s as it is to sack private sector workers. Which is to say, in today’s Britain, pretty easy. In truth, it is &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/12/poor-performers-in-the-civil-service-blame-the-poor-bloody-infantry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2381&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government U-turn on jump-jets &#8211; MBS research shows it could have been avoided.</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/10/government-u-turn-on-jump-jets-mbs-research-shows-it-could-have-been-avoided/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague at MBS, Michael Pryce, sends this: On 10 May 2012 Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond announces that the UK will revert to plans to buy the jump jet version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, to save billions of &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/10/government-u-turn-on-jump-jets-mbs-research-shows-it-could-have-been-avoided/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2375&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Andy Coulson and and his non &#8216;Developed Vetting&#8217; &#8211; why on earth did the Civil Service let this happen?</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/10/andy-coulson-and-and-his-non-developed-vetting-why-on-earth-did-the-civil-service-let-this-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start by saying I have been through the &#8216;Developed Vetting&#8217; (DV) process. I can&#8217;t tell you why, because then I&#8217;d have to kill you (a joke, of course). As a former Trotskyist (in the 1970s) I found the whole &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/10/andy-coulson-and-and-his-non-developed-vetting-why-on-earth-did-the-civil-service-let-this-happen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2369&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Era of Single Party Rule Over?</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/04/is-the-era-of-single-party-rule-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 23:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC’s Nick Robinson has it almost right when he says there are two ways of judging these elections &#8211; through the prism of the last three decades of British politics with its long-lived single party governments (Tories 1979-97; Labour &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/04/is-the-era-of-single-party-rule-over/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2366&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Mervyn King do the math? Apparently not&#8230;&#8230;might explain a lot?</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/03/can-mervyn-king-do-the-math-apparently-not-might-explain-a-lot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 21:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard yet again today someone using the Queen&#8217;s Jubilee Gambit to explain that next quarter (Q2 2012) may see even more sluggish growth in the economy or even that wonder &#8220;negative growth&#8221;. This is based on comments made by &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/03/can-mervyn-king-do-the-math-apparently-not-might-explain-a-lot/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2364&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have Social Sciences “Wasted a Good Crisis”?</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/03/have-social-sciences-wasted-a-good-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 12:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aditya Chakrabortty has suggested (in a Guardian column) that British “publicly funded” social scientists have failed to step into the breach as neo-classical economic orthodoxy so spectacularly failed over the 2007-2009 financial crisis and it’s on-going consequences. Read my analysis &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/03/have-social-sciences-wasted-a-good-crisis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2361&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doubling Dip: is it the government’s fault?</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/01/doubling-dip-is-it-the-governments-fault/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 06:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Britain is officially in a ”double-dip” recession, just. In reality this is both more and less serious than it sounds. It is more serious because we are still a good 4% of GDP lower than we were at the &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/05/01/doubling-dip-is-it-the-governments-fault/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2357&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Class Ceiling &#8211; Posh Boys (and Girls) Still Rule OK</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/29/the-class-ceiling-posh-boys-and-girls-still-rule-ok/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Tory MP Nadine Dorries described her Prime Minister and Chancellor as ”two arrogant posh boys” it prompted me to start thinking about my own experiences of class in British society over the past half century. My conclusion &#8211; there &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/29/the-class-ceiling-posh-boys-and-girls-still-rule-ok/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2353&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There is no such thing as a free lunch, unless you&#8217;re running a state funded academies trust that is. In which case you can free everything.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been predicting for ages that some of the current (and previous) Government&#8217;s reforms like NHS Foundation Trusts, Academies and &#8216;Free Schools&#8217;, and the soon to be Community Commissioning Groups, will undermine financial control and audit in these publicly &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/27/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch-unless-youre-running-a-state-funded-academies-trust-that-is-in-which-case-you-can-free-everything/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2351&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jeremy Hunt (DCMS) debacle raises again the issue of Civil Service Reform</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/26/jeremy-hunt-dcms-debacle-raises-again-the-issue-of-civil-service-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week saw an extraordinary outburst from the most recently retired Head of the Civil Service, Lord Gus O&#8217;Donnell. He said, on the BBC, &#8220;&#8221;When governments go through difficult patches you are looking for who you can blame. The issue &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/26/jeremy-hunt-dcms-debacle-raises-again-the-issue-of-civil-service-reform/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2347&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Join Policy@Manchester</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can now join the listserv for &#8220;Policy@Manchester&#8221; that will be used for announcements in the future about our activities. To join the listerv and keep in touch with these developments, and use the list to share any questions, events, &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/19/join-policymanchester/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2336&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Policy@Manchester</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/18/policymanchester/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that distinguishes top Universities around the world is that, certainly in democracies, they are usually power-houses of public policy ideas. True, in recent years in some countries Universities have been squeezed out by (sometimes very well &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/18/policymanchester/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2333&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equality Trust researcher opening</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/13/equality-trust-researcher-opening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please share The Equality Trust and the University of York are looking for a Researcher to take a leading role in an exciting new project: Discussing Inequality &#8211; materials for the classroom and beyond. This project is funded by the Economic &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/13/equality-trust-researcher-opening/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2331&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Local Trade Union Officials and &#8220;Facilities Time&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/11/local-trade-union-officials-and-facilities-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting piece by UNISON local government leader Heather Wakefield raises an obvious contradiction in Coalition Government policy. On the one-hand, they want to abolish the tradition of having local unpaid trade union officials granted waht is called &#8220;facilities time&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/11/local-trade-union-officials-and-facilities-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2327&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abolish Bank Holidays in Britain &#8211; why stop there?</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/09/abolish-bank-holidays-in-britain-why-stop-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Centre for Economics and Business Research says that if bank holidays were scrapped, Britain&#8217;s GDP would be £19bn higher every year.&#8221; (BBC website) In a usual year there are 261 weekdays, of which 8 are taken as Bank Holidays. &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/09/abolish-bank-holidays-in-britain-why-stop-there/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2324&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Collective irresponsibility&#8217; as Coalition starts to seriously disagree &#8211; between and within Parties</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/08/collective-irresponsibility-as-coalition-starts-to-seriously-disagree-between-and-within-parties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just 15 months ago I spelt out in an article for Public Finance how much of strain trying to stick to Cabinet &#8216;collective responsibility&#8217; would put on the Coalition government. I suggested that the Coalition would have to come up &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/08/collective-irresponsibility-as-coalition-starts-to-seriously-disagree-between-and-within-parties/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2319&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whitehall Watch passes 100,000 hits &#8211; thank you!</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/06/whitehall-watch-passes-100000-hits-thank-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whitehall Watch today passed a milestone &#8211; over 100,000 hits. I have to confess that when I started this blog-site just over 3 years ago I had no idea what sort of &#8216;audience&#8217; it might attract, or whether it was &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/04/06/whitehall-watch-passes-100000-hits-thank-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&#038;blog=5561180&#038;post=2315&#038;subd=whitehallwatch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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