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		<title>Thinking UK: Northern Ireland and the Calman Commission</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/05/06/thinking-uk-northern-ireland-and-the-calman-commission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 22:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Devolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fair Deal (Belfast, Slugger O’Toole): The three Unionist parties in Scotland with the support of the central government have established a 15 member Commission to examine the future political structures for Scotland.  Unionism in Northern Ireland has an alternative proposal, a Royal Commission on the Union.  The “totality of relationships” may be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today and Tomorrow: The DUP and 42 Days</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/05/05/today-and-tomorrow-the-dup-and-42-days/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/05/05/today-and-tomorrow-the-dup-and-42-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 19:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Detention without charge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fair Deal (Belfast, Slugger O’Toole): In a Radio Ulster interview, DUP Deputy Leader in waiting Nigel Dodds, has left the door open  to a deal on 42 days detention.
With nine MPs, the DUP is the fourth strongest group at Westminster. In March, The Guardian speculated that a Labour/DUP deal was in the offing over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Varney offers thin gruel for Northern Ireland</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/05/01/varney-offers-thin-gruel-for-northern-ireland/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/05/01/varney-offers-thin-gruel-for-northern-ireland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomgriffin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Griffin (London, The Green Ribbon): Sir David Varney &#8220;ain&#8217;t no sanity clause,&#8221; according to the BBC&#8217;s Mark Devenport. After knocking back Northern Ireland&#8217;s demand for a corporation tax cut in December, the former HMRC chairman has delivered his own recommendations for improving the North&#8217;s competitiveness.
Varney&#8217;s message this time will be even less palatable. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devolved nations challenging PFI</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/23/devolved-nations-challenging-pfi/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/23/devolved-nations-challenging-pfi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ourkingdom</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Griffin (London, The Green Ribbon) Scotland&#8217;s Finance Minister, John Swinney, came in for sustained criticism last week, when he published the responses to the consultation on his proposed Scottish Futures Trust. Several respondents suggested that his plan to replace the Private Finance Initiative left key questions unaddressed:
Audit Scotland, the public sector watchdog, observed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown may rue leaving Northern Ireland out of Britain</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/17/brown-may-rue-leaving-northern-ireland-out-of-britain/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/17/brown-may-rue-leaving-northern-ireland-out-of-britain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomgriffin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Ireland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fair Deal (Belfast, Slugger O&#8217;Toole): After 28 years as deputy, Peter Robinson is poised to take over the leadership of the Democratic Unionist Party and assume the First Ministership of Northern Ireland.  He will emerge fully from the shadow of Ian Paisley to lead Unionism, and the fourth part of the Union, in June.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ireland&#8217;s new leaders meet</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/14/irelands-new-leaders-meet/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/14/irelands-new-leaders-meet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomgriffin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Griffin (London, The Green Ribbon): Neither man will be in their present job for much longer, but today&#8217;s meeting between Irish Finance Minister Brian Cowen and his Northern counterpart Peter Robinson was no less significant for that.
Cowen was last week elected leader of Fianna Fail, the Republic&#8217;s dominant political force, and is expected to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Friday 10 years on: Paradox of Belfast remains unresolved</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/10/good-friday-10-years-on-paradox-of-belfast-remains-unresolved/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/10/good-friday-10-years-on-paradox-of-belfast-remains-unresolved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Good Friday Agreement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Article:  The tenth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement offers an opportunity of examining how far Northern Ireland has come – and how far it has yet to go (part of an OK trilogy)

Conn Corrigan (New York,  Columbia School of Journalism): Last month, I visited Northern Ireland for a few days. A friend, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Friday 10 years on: Jonathan Powell on the peace process</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/10/good-friday-10-years-on-jonathan-powell-on-the-peace-process/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/10/good-friday-10-years-on-jonathan-powell-on-the-peace-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomgriffin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Griffin reviews Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell.
Powell&#8217;s book sheds light on the political manoeuvrings of the peace process and draws out important lessons we have yet to learn.
As Tony Blair&#8217;s Chief of Staff, former diplomat Jonathan Powell was a key backroom player in the Northern Ireland peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Friday 10 years on: A very Blairite legacy</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/10/good-friday-10-years-on-a-very-blairite-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/04/10/good-friday-10-years-on-a-very-blairite-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ourkingdom</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Good Friday Agreement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Robin Wilson (Belfast, Policy Analyst): Tony Blair deferred his resignation  announcement until one last photo-opportunity-the renewal of devolution  to Northern Ireland on May 8th 2007- even though that ensured  nationalists would give Labour a bloody nose in Scotland and Wales.  It was a measure of the egocentricity of the man, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Citizen XII: Goldsmith at odds with the spirit of Good Friday</title>
		<link>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/20/good-citizen-xii-goldsmith-at-odds-with-the-spirit-of-good-friday/</link>
		<comments>http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/03/20/good-citizen-xii-goldsmith-at-odds-with-the-spirit-of-good-friday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ourkingdom</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Citizenship]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[ID cards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Griffin (London, The Green Ribbon): As the tenth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement approaches, there is growing evidence that the inclusive vision of 1998 is being undermined by the Government&#8217;s more recent obsession with a narrower and more prescriptive identity politics.
Lord Goldsmith&#8217;s citizenship review provides the latest example. His proposal to stop Irish [...]]]></description>
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