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        <title><![CDATA[Paul's Soapbox]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Reflecting on Education]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:39:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[There has been, of late, a veritable barrage of negative press about the parlous state of western education. At first, I thought this was a uniquely British disease, but I have also found evidence for it in the US papers. I am advised that it is equally... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Case for Compassion]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. It’s appropriate to start this post with the above quotation... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The enemy of my enemy ......]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[So far, in all the blog posts of the past months, I have consciously not mentioned the horrific acts that have defined members of my family these past six years: the murder of my son, Michael, and my ex-wife, Dorothy on January 28, 2003. The fact that... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nostalgia ain't what it used to be........]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:29:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Firstly my apology for the lack of posts these past couple of weeks. As you might have expected, with Helen arriving in Saudi, and with a new home for us to establish (as well as both of us in full time, demanding jobs) there hasn’t been a lot of time... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Latest News]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:02:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It’s been a roller coaster of a week. Firstly, for anyone reading this that doesn’t yet know; please welcome Alexander Andrew Logue into the world. Our second grandchild was born on October 18 in Calgary, and my thanks to our first, Marilena, (who is,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Question of Loyalty]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I The interview went well and he wasn't surprised to be offered the job. After all, he'd been doing similar work for the best part of twenty years and he knew the region like the back of his hand. He was a little put out a week or so later, however, to... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nanny State Numpties]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Three separate stories have raised my ire this week and if you haven't already seen them, please allow me to share them with you, and have a rant in the process of doing so. The first concerns two women police officer in the UK who decided to baby-sit... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Butterfly Boy (3)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[V Harry had not made many friends in Saudi Arabia. Apart from being a natural loner, suffering initially from the heartache of separation from his loved ones, he was never a good mixer. There was, however, one man in his organization with whom he had... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Butterfly Boy (2)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[III For the first couple of months, Harry Wentworth got on fine in Saudi Arabia. The job was excellent, and because there was a real sense of urgency about it, he felt free of what he often considered the petty restrictions of home. In the past, he had... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Linda Carty]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In case you are unaware, there is a British woman, Linda Carty, currently on death row in Texas. By all accounts, the case against her is deeply flawed. There is an online petition currently available, which will be presented to those in power as soon... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Butterfly Boy (1)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[What follows this week, is a new departure for me. Since arriving in Saudi back in April, I have amused myself from time to time with writing some fiction. I have been doing this off and on for over 40 years, but chiefly for my own amusement. It occurred... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Psychology of Evil]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I suspect like many people around the world this week, I have been shocked and horrified at the ordeal of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the child abducted at the age of eleven and kept as a virtual prisoner for eighteen years. While the tabloids have had a field... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Taking liberties]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I have recently been reading an interesting new book entitled What Price Liberty? by Ben Wilson. In a closely argued text, looking historically from the English Civil War to the present day, his basic premise is that today, we are in danger of losing... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ageing Disgracefully]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The redoubtable Irene Handle John Fortune was once in a TV show with Irene Handl. It involved color separation, a technique then in its infancy, and the enthusiastic young director thought he should explain the process to Miss Handl at the outset. Swathed... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Home Thoughts from Abroad.....]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, I must have been 10 or 11 when I was first introduced to this poem by Robert Browning. Rather young maybe, but in those days, we were often treated to such literary gems at the primary school level, and amazingly,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[God Bless America!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[When I trained to be a teacher in the early 1970s, it was compulsory to do three periods of assessed teaching practice. For my second of these, lasting a little over a month, I was fortunate enough to be selected for a school on a US Air Force base in... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What do they know of cricket.........?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[To quote the great West Indian writer, C.L.R. James: What do they know of cricket who only cricket know? It's over thirty years since I read his wonderful book, Beyond a Boundary, and more than forty since I sat on the boundary ropes at Lords and the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Journey Through the Alphabet]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I was reflecting the other day on the rise and fall of literary reputations. Apart from a bit of vicarious fame via Nicole Kidman and her fabulous prosthetic nose in The Hours, the current standing of Virginia Woolf is by no means as high as it was when... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[John Updike]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[If I were ever put on the spot and asked to name my favorite books, I would have to say novels. Although as a literature student, I had to study poetry, drama and a variety of literary criticism as well, it was to novels that I returned as a first love.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Corrective]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This is from today's Guardian. It's an interesting take on the death of Michael Jackson, and the wealth of bad taste jokes (most of which, I have to say I loved) that inevitably followed. Worth a look. link ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Here is the News (2)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Now that the media's Jackson frenzy has died down a little, and I am feeling a little less curmudgeonly, I thought I might give some thought today to the changing face of world news. I am increasingly persuaded that we are being ill-served by it. One... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Here is the News]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I don't normally post blogs so close together, but in the aftermath of the announcement today of Michael Jackson's death, I felt like I needed a bit of a rant. A word of warning: anyone who thinks highly of the late Mr. Jackson should stop here and read... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Snap, Crackle &amp; Pop!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Please forgive a rather bad pun as my title. I want to draw your attention to the use of serials in literature rather than the merits of Rice Krispies, and how what at first appears to be an outmoded genre in fiction, is in fact, alive and well today.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Quote - Unquote]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts , 1932 My father used to say: "The school of experience is the finest school in the world, but its fees are the most expensive."... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The E-Reader]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My Sony E-Reader duly arrived exactly one week ago today, and first impressions straight out of the box while at work were favourable. Problems arose, however, as soon as I got home. The software that came with it on CD, steadfastly refused to install... ]]></description>
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