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		<title>Dividing Economic and Employment Recovery</title>
		<link>http://grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/dividing-economic-and-employment-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economics is not my strong point, but I think its worth digging into one of the assumptions being made by the media, especially in the language it uses whilst debating signs of an economic recovery. We here about economic recovery, and we assume this is good for the mere mortals at the bottom of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com&blog=823499&post=614&subd=grahamsgrumbles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government seeks showdown with Unions over Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend pointed me to a press release on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (read, Foreign Ministry), in which the Foreign Secretary attempts to put Trade Unions in line on policy towards Israel. I find this problematic on several levels, not least, in that it shows what a Labour government will demand from Unions.
 

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		<title>Odds and Ends</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I guess the problem with my way of writing blog posts is that I end up with more stories saved in my RSS feeds than I know what to do with, and not enough time to write my 800 words on each of them. Cars have been banned from Times Square, New York, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com&blog=823499&post=487&subd=grahamsgrumbles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Trade vs. Rainforest Alliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a silent shift going on in coffee trading at the moment, or so it would seem to someone like myself who simply can’t miss changes to labelling practice. For years, the “big deal” has been Fair Trade, tied perhaps to a concern that one’s coffee has not been touched by the “Big Bads”: Nestle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com&blog=823499&post=431&subd=grahamsgrumbles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A car-free solution to factory closures?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching News 24 on Saturday (not for long, I should add) and happened upon an interview with a representative of Friends of the Earth. I was appalled by what the FOE representative had to say: the solution to car industry woes is to build more cars, and make them a bit nicer. What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com&blog=823499&post=394&subd=grahamsgrumbles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making the poor pay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of articles from the BBC really ticked me off, and reminded me how completely unjust our economic system can be. Predictions are being made that 600,000 jobs will be lost this year (and I suppose the cynical might think to round that up to a million) and now bosses want those of us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com&blog=823499&post=339&subd=grahamsgrumbles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must money define me?</title>
		<link>http://grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/must-money-define-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 09:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalism wants me to see myself as a consumer, demanding things be cheaper, bigger, better, faster, and, well, even cheaper still. Socialism, and Communism, on the other hand, want me to see myself as being, well, a worker, demanding more pay, more holiday pay, more sick pay, the same pay for fewer hours, the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com&blog=823499&post=209&subd=grahamsgrumbles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Construction Danger Made Visible</title>
		<link>http://grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/construction-danger-made-visible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a sad fact of life that sometimes an event which occurs regularly must occur once in the West before anyone really takes notice of it. In the case of the type of incident I&#8217;m referring to, its not just happened once in the West, its happened twice in just 10 days, and both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com&blog=823499&post=203&subd=grahamsgrumbles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I found the catch&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/i-found-the-catch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I meant to write this a few days ago, but seeing as I was out of town and very busy, and forced to upload in a Weatherspoons using the free 30 minute wifi vouchers they give out to anyone who knows about them and bothers to ask for one, I never had time to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com&blog=823499&post=177&subd=grahamsgrumbles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I blame the Union!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realised this sometime ago, before I’d even started this blog, but was reminded about it lately. Don’t know if it was the postal-strikes or what, but I was forced to stand up for a Union’s actions to someone complaining about a strike. Public understanding of basic Union concepts and issues is at an all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=grahamsgrumbles.wordpress.com&blog=823499&post=174&subd=grahamsgrumbles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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