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		<title>Educating Dave: Five things Cameron should know about Pakistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where this blog leads, greater minds will follow. Or at least so it seems from today&#8217;s comments by Simon Tisdall in The Guardian. His learning objectives (or LOs, to use the ghastly initials that stalk education these days) are: Terror: &#8216;When it comes to fighting terror, a bit of the famous Cameron humility might not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.literaryconnections.co.uk/?p=539</link>
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		<title>Frank incense: David Cameron raises a stink in Pakistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reaction to our new Prime Minister's frank remarks in India are warning up nicely - and not just on this blog]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.literaryconnections.co.uk/?p=521</link>
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		<title>Blood on their hands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The words of US Admiral Mike Mullen, joint chiefs of staff, when criticising the founder of WikiLeaks seem too ironic to miss]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.literaryconnections.co.uk/?p=505</link>
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		<title>Pedants&#8217; revolt aims to protect English from spell of txt spk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New GCSE, old language arguments]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.literaryconnections.co.uk/?p=486</link>
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		<title>Gove says &#8216;Go!&#8217; and offers children their very own school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Go-go Gove springs into action: set up a school, never mind the curriculum!]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.literaryconnections.co.uk/?p=476</link>
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		<title>Streaming: the new education policies made visible?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not much happening on the new Department for Education website; they must all be too busy setting up free schools, abolishing quangos and the like. Their home page (which still, nearly two weeks into the new government, has the temporary feel that I commented on earlier) prompted my next article for NATE&#8217;s English Drama Media [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.literaryconnections.co.uk/?p=461</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all over for the rainbow as it&#8217;s curtains for the DCSF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's goodbye to the Department for Curtains and Soft Furnishings - or: Education (and spelling) rules]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.literaryconnections.co.uk/?p=419</link>
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		<title>The winner&#8217;s curse: or why being a loser may not be so bad after all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Friday&#8217;s Phrase from Word of the Day is topical, as always. I had thought to offer you hung parliament, but that is so last week &#8211; and anyway, it&#8217;s already been covered on the excellent World Wide Words site. So instead I bring you the winner&#8217;s curse, inspired by Aditya Chakrabortty&#8217;s Guardian article in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.literaryconnections.co.uk/?p=415</link>
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		<title>A complete and final stop?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Verbal redundancy, alliteration - and demonstrations.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.literaryconnections.co.uk/?p=403</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Here&#8217;s a boat that cannot float&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised yesterday, there&#8217;s more drama &#8211; and poetry &#8211; to be wrung from this week&#8217;s election results. The Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy reflects on democracy in action (and on the current inaction) in her new poem Democracy in The Guardian today. As she implies by her reference to &#8216;a moat&#8217;, the expenses scandal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.literaryconnections.co.uk/?p=392</link>
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