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		<title>Politicians doing a &#8216;hard job&#8217;? That&#8217;s rich!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever politicians claim that they do a hard and stressful job, they should be forced to read this article from Peter Preston in The Guardian:
&#8220;Time and motion, working by stopwatch, would probably be amazed by how little of any political week is actually devoted to starting and running things. Presentation, presentation- with attendant delegation. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2009/01/05/politicians-doing-a-hard-job-thats-rich/</link>
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		<title>FA Cup football coverage sucks!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Am I not the only one who thinks that most of the current TV coverage of the FA Cup is a pile of sh*t? What on earth were the English FA doing when they awarded joint coverage of the world&#8217;s premier cup competiton to both ITV and Setanta?
This past weekend, people should have been talking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2009/01/05/fa-cup-football-coverage-sucks/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We wish all our readers a hopefully prosperous and peaceful new year!
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		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2009/01/01/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
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This seasonal photo was taken in London&#8217;s world-famous Carnaby Street (Sorry about the picture quality! ). Have a great holiday and the blog will return in the new year.
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		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2008/12/24/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Financial Crisis &#8216;worse than predicted&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The deputy governor of the Bank of England has admitted that they had underestimated the high level of the ongoing financial crisis.
Sir John Gieve said in an interview with the BBC that the Bank had relied too much on controlling interest rates and thought that the situation wouldn&#8217;t be as bad as it is currently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2008/12/22/financial-crisis-worse-than-predicted/</link>
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		<title>A new bus for London?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[London&#8217;s iconic Routemaster bus could be set to make a comeback, a few years after being phased out by Ken Livingstone.
Transport for London recently announced the winning competition designs for a new Routemaster-type bus which if implemented will be in service soon.
To be honest, I don&#8217;t care what type of bus I travel in so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2008/12/22/a-new-bus-for-london/</link>
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		<title>NASA puts space shuttles up for sale</title>
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FOR SALE: THREE LARGE SPACECRAFT
Three large spaceships, one careful owner, thirty years service, several million miles, still in good condition.
PRICE: $42MILLION FOR QUICK SALE. NO TIMEWASTERS PLEASE, AND CERTAINLY NO TERRORISTS.
Read more here.
Sorry about the joke, it&#8217;s probably been done loads of times over the web and in newspapers.

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		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2008/12/22/nasa-puts-space-shuttles-up-for-sale/</link>
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		<title>UK troops to leave Iraq at last</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like the majority people in Britain who were opposed to the war in Iraq, I&#8217;m pleased that the government plan to withdraw all of our military personnel from the country by at least July next year.
They were there for what would be a total of six years&#8230;. all for the lie that the country had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2008/12/17/uk-troops-to-leave-iraq-at-last/</link>
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		<title>Football cup tie abandoned- for the third time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The third-round draw for this season&#8217;s FA Cup had been announced weeks ago&#8230; yet there is one second-round cup tie which has yet to be settled.
Droylsden and Chesterfield must be getting sick to death of each other. The  tie between these teams has now been abandoned three times, the latest was last night when, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2008/12/17/football-cup-tie-abandoned-for-the-third-time/</link>
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		<title>The Death of the Royal Mail?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One should never underestimate the Labour government&#8217;s ability to kick itself in the b*ll*cks. Yesterday, the Business secretary, Lord Mandelson, accepted a controversial report which paves way for the complete privatisation of the Royal Mail.
The report&#8217;s (PDF) initial recommendations was for a part-privatisation of the service with a large chunk of it being sold to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2008/12/17/the-death-of-the-royal-mail/</link>
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