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        <title>Politics Feed</title>
        <subtitle>A feed of things tagged 'Politics', from Charlie Harvey's website</subtitle>
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        <updated>2011-12-31T10:16:45Z</updated>
        <author>
                <name>Charlie Harvey</name>
        </author>


        <entry>
                <title>December 2011 Reading</title>
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                <updated>2011-12-31T10:16:45Z</updated>
                <summary><![CDATA[
               Another Christmas gift from me old man, this is a 2005 novel which was made into a film last year. I've not seen the film. But the book is wonderful, a dystopian sci-fi, by turns tender and twisted. Ishiguro riffs on the fragility and isolation of childhood &mdash; the way that the outside world seems stange and incoherent and inevitable &mdash; and he extrapolates from that. Anarchist that I am, I also saw a lot of truth in its portrayal of adults unprepared to fight back against the system, who insist on asking the permission of others to escape their destiny. 
               
           
       2011-12-31 by Charlie Harvey
        


           
               
                 How to Think About Algorithms, by Jeff Edmonds
           
   
           
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				<author>
					<name>Charlie Harvey</name>
				</author>
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        <entry>
                <title>October 2011 Reading</title>
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                <updated>2011-10-23T17:48:23Z</updated>
                <summary><![CDATA[
                This is a difficult read at times, putting the lie to the myth of the British Empire being a benign, democratic or civilising project. Rebellion was never far from the surface and was put down by genocide, torture, extermination and crimes against humanity. The subject people's who Britain systematically oppressed fought back as best they could. The breadth and scope of the book are stunning, and Gott doesn't flinch from drawing the parallels between the Empire's appalling behaviour and that of 20th century dictators. It should be read by every smug apologist for the brutal, exploitative, murderous institution that the Empire was.
              
          
      2011-10-02 by Charlie Harvey
        

   
          
              
                Seize The Time, the story of the Black Panther Party, By Bobby Seale
              
          
  
          
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				<author>
					<name>Charlie Harvey</name>
				</author>
        </entry>

        <entry>
                <title>Chart: Who loots more MPs or rioters?</title>
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                <updated>2011-08-12T17:36:22Z</updated>
                <summary><![CDATA[
In the followup to the riots that hit the UK earlier in the week, MPs have been trying to out-authoritarian one another. However, we should remember that many of the people doing the name calling here are guilty of some "looting" of their own. I thought it would be of interest to compare their "looting" during the expenses scandal to that of the rioters involved in disturbances in the UK's cities recently. It turns out that MPs do more looting per person than rioters. I am expecting to take delivery of my big society water cannon any day now &hellip;
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				<author>
					<name>Charlie Harvey</name>
				</author>
        </entry>

        <entry>
                <title>Sack Boris 2012: Ruling class flim-flam-nonsense maker</title>
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                <updated>2011-05-03T21:20:07Z</updated>
                <summary><![CDATA[
    I was chuffed to learn that the folks at Common People had been able to use the code I wrote for the What will George Osborne Cut Next random cut generator into a Boris Johnson flim-flam answer generator. You ask Boris a question and he talks errant ruling class nonsense. Just like the real thing!
]]></summary>
				<author>
					<name>Charlie Harvey</name>
				</author>
        </entry>

        <entry>
                <title>Video: Richard Stallman - A Free Digital Society</title>
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                <updated>2011-03-14T14:31:00Z</updated>
                <summary><![CDATA[
  Richard Stallman is something of a legend. He singlehandedly launched the Free Software movement, and the GNU project and has been campaigning for software freedom for almost as long as there have been usable home computers. I jumped at the opportunity to see him talk at the Institution of Engineering and Technology. His topic was "A Free Digital Society", and he spoke on the various problems &mdash; nonfree software, software as a service, invasion of privacy, and such &mdash; that are often ignored by the discourse of digital inclusion.  
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				<author>
					<name>Charlie Harvey</name>
				</author>
        </entry>

        <entry>
                <title>Climate Change</title>
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                <id>http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/climate_change</id>
                <updated>2010-08-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
                <summary><![CDATA[
Climate change is real. Human beings are contributing to it. It is killing 150,000 people a year. These are poor people in poor countries. They produce far fewer emissions than rich people in rich countries but suffer the worst effects of climate change. This is a class issue, a power issue, a justice issue and a racism issue.]]></summary>
				<author>
					<name>Charlie Harvey</name>
				</author>
        </entry>

        <entry>
                <title>Dear Prime Sinister ...</title>
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                <updated>2007-07-01T16:48:00Z</updated>
                <summary><![CDATA[
I thought that it may be fun to write to the Prime Sinister every now and again. He hasn't yet written back despite my generous offer to join his "cabinet of all the talents".
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				<author>
					<name>Charlie Harvey</name>
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