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		<title>Geert Wilders&#8217; Speech Hits the Spot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Geert Wilders’ speech in London:
…we should defend the right to freedom of speech. With all our strength. With all our might. Free speech is the most important of our many liberties. Free speech is the cornerstone of our modern societies. Freedom of speech is the breath of our democracy, without freedom of speech our way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightside.com/2010/03/geert-wilders-speech-hits-the-spot/</link>
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		<title>Gordon Brown is Right</title>
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I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I find myself in agreement with Gordon Brown over his opposition to changing the law on assisted suicide:
…death as an option and an entitlement, via whatever bureaucratic processes a change in the law might devise, would fundamentally change the way we think about mortality.

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		<link>http://www.fromtherightside.com/2010/02/gordon-brown-is-right/</link>
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		<title>Big Government: Big Danger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The same illness, just a different country – in this case America:
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Bigger government means more government employees. Those employees then become a permanent lobby for continual government growth. The nation may have reached critical mass; the number of government employees at every level may have gotten so high that it is politically impossible to roll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightside.com/2010/02/big-government-big-danger/</link>
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		<title>Never Provoke a Chingford Polecat</title>
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Lord Tebbit was a little upset about the noise surrounding Chinese New Year celebrations:
Lord Tebbit kicked the dragon in the bottom during the celebration last Tuesday. 

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		<link>http://www.fromtherightside.com/2010/02/never-provoke-a-chingford-polecat/</link>
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		<title>The Nature of Russia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gary Kasparov on the character of modern Russia, and Europe’s spineless attitude:
Stifling free media, arresting journalists, bullying its neighbours – Moscow is stamping on freedoms and the EU turns a blind eye
…As Moscow shuts down opposition newspapers, arrests journalists who fail to toe the government line and bullies its democratic neighbours into submission, some European [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightside.com/2010/02/the-nature-of-russia/</link>
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		<title>Jobs for the Boys in the European Union</title>
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There really is no ‘controversy’ here. Don’t they understand that this is the way things work at the EU?
A ‘jobs for the boys’ controversy engulfed the head of the European Commission yesterday after José Manuel Barroso’s former chief of staff was handed the plum job of EU envoy to Washington. 

This appointment will be an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightside.com/2010/02/jobs-for-the-boys-in-the-european-union/</link>
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		<title>Democracy: Afghan Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai pulls a fast one:
The country’s Electoral Complaints Commission previously included three foreign experts chosen by the UN. But Karzai has taken exclusive power to appoint all five panel members under a presidential decree published today, while the Afghan parliament is in recess. 

After all, we don’t want another repeat of the vote-rigging in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightside.com/2010/02/democracy-afghan-style/</link>
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		<title>The Conservative Shadow Cabinet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iain Martin’s description of the Tory Shadow Cabinet:
The shadow cabinet (AKA the mushrooms, kept in the dark and covered in…)

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		<link>http://www.fromtherightside.com/2010/02/the-conservative-shadow-cabinet/</link>
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		<title>Quite Right, Douglas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Murray makes the obvious point in the Telegraph:
Who cares who killed the Hamas commander?

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		<link>http://www.fromtherightside.com/2010/02/quite-right-douglas/</link>
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		<title>Doing the Pancake Walk</title>
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Health and Safety struck yesterday in St Albans:
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With their frying pans primed, the teams were set to sprint to victory.      Hundreds of well-wishers lined the course expecting the usual thrills, spills and slip-ups of the annual pancake race. But the jolly mood turned sour when a new health and safety [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fromtherightside.com/2010/02/doing-the-pancake-walk/</link>
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