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   <title><![CDATA["Buggers Briefing against the Conservatives"]]></title>
   <link>http://ffrancsais.blogspot.com/2013/05/buggers-briefing-against-conservatives.html</link>
   <description><![CDATA[In the last few days, BBC certainly lived down to the version of its initials ascribed to Christine Hamilton. Gay marriage, while symbolically important, is not a matter of national well-being like the sluggishness of the economy or the inequities of the benefits system. It does not right a major injustice - that was already done by the Act that introduced civil partnerships - yet it occupied a quarter of Monday's PM programme and has dominated the domestic agenda on the BBC News channel. Much as I relish the prospect of the Conservative party tearing itself apart over gay rights ...]]></description>
   <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Progress at last on new school]]></title>
   <link>http://peterblack.blogspot.com/2013/05/progress-at-last-on-new-school.html</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Today's South Wales Evening Post reports on an important investment in my council ward with the news that a new school to replace two existing dilapidated buildings is likely to be built in the very near future. The Evening Post piece is slightly overspun by the Council officers who contributed to it but that does not change the fact that this is very good news indeed. As the interim Director of Education says: "The current Burlais school is split across two ageing buildings which need huge amounts of investment to bring them up to modern standards fit for the 21st ...]]></description>
   <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:18:00 +0100</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[La Mer - Trenet, not Debussy]]></title>
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   <description><![CDATA[If it hadn't been for Russell Davies's Song Show on Sunday, I wouldn't have realised that the centenary of Charles Trenet fell this month. It is a remarkable sign of the way we in the UK have turned our back on continental Europe that while the French media are going overboard in celebrating one of the 20th century's greatest singer-songwriters, there is hardly a ripple over here. Yet I can recall in the 1950s that Trenet and Jean Sablon rubbed shoulders on record programmes with the likes of Anne Shelton, Vera Lynn, Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. Even Trenet's equivocal ...]]></description>
   <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Issuing fixed penalty notices to parents of children skipping school is counter-productive]]></title>
   <link>http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/2013/05/issuing-fixed-penalty-notices-to-parents-of-children-skipping-school-is-counter-productive.html</link>
   <description><![CDATA[Yesterday's announcement by the Education Minister that fixed penalty notices will be issued to parents whose children are regularly absent from school will prove to be counter-productive. The Minister's decision has been based on the results of a consultation carried out between November 2012 and February 2013. I believe this is a disproportionate response to a problem which requires a far more creative response than a fining system. Evidence shows that children from poorer backgrounds are more likely to play truant and achieve poorer educational outcomes. I am concerned that fining parents of truant pupils will cause them even more ...]]></description>
   <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 10:36:56 +0100</pubDate>
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