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		<title>More single mothers please, says Mail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mail is keen for there to be more unmarried mothers. Don&#8217;t look so staggered, it&#8217;s on today&#8217;s front page.  &#8220;NHS spends £1m a week on repeat abortions: Single women using terminations &#8216;as another form of contraceptive&#8217;&#8221;, the headline wails, and the body copy adds plaintively, &#8220;According to the statistics, single or unmarried women account [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&#038;blog=4222123&#038;post=4436&#038;subd=houseofpaper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I am a feminist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I took part in my first ever feminist direct action when I attended the counter-protest to the SPUC anti-abortion vigil in Bath. If you&#8217;d asked me whether I was a feminist ten years ago, you&#8217;d probably have got very strange and hesitant answer out of me: I wasn&#8217;t anti-feminist, but I wasn&#8217;t sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&#038;blog=4222123&#038;post=4415&#038;subd=houseofpaper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sky News Sunrise: extreme diets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I snuck my way onto Sky News Sunrise yesterday morning to talk about the perils of extreme diets – in this case, a nasogastric tube diet, which I wrote about in a piece for the Guardian. My giant news head (friend on Twitter: &#8220;This particular extreme diet involves being large enough to eat only unsuspecting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&#038;blog=4222123&#038;post=4396&#038;subd=houseofpaper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the scenes at the Good Men Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parody]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Paperhouse was invited to sit in on an editorial meeting at the Good Men Project, where we were privileged to witness the genesis of one of the greatest, most boundary-breaking works on sexual desire ever to appear on the internet: Mark Radcliffe&#8217;s In Praise Of Small-Breasted Women, in which he bravely explained [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&#038;blog=4222123&#038;post=4385&#038;subd=houseofpaper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feminism&#8217;s zombie stats: 63% of young women would rather be glamour models</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zombie stats are numerical factoids that just won&#8217;t quit, however dead they get. They lurch up from their graves in every subject, drawn to the juicy warm flesh of public consciousness by some unkillable primal instinct, spreading their intelligence-murdering contagion wherever they shamble. There&#8217;s a special pang in seeing their rotten heads pop up in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&#038;blog=4222123&#038;post=4361&#038;subd=houseofpaper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There are upsides to being this obnoxious&#8221;: why newspapers hate me for being successful</title>
		<link>http://sarahditum.com/2012/04/11/there-are-upsides-to-being-this-obnoxious-why-newspapers-hate-me-for-being-successful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the Daily Mail The other day, I got over 1.5 million hits. &#8220;They&#8217;ve come from Twitter,&#8221; explained the digital editor, &#8220;to tell you what a repulsive pustule on the face of journalism you are.&#8221; You&#8217;re probably thinking, &#8220;What a lovely surprise!&#8221; But while it was lovely, it wasn&#8217;t a surprise. At least, not for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&#038;blog=4222123&#038;post=4339&#038;subd=houseofpaper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pornwars! A New Left Project debate with Gail Dines</title>
		<link>http://sarahditum.com/2012/04/06/pornwars-a-new-left-project-debate-with-gail-dines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, New Left Project has been running a debate between me and Pornland author Gail Dines, &#8220;the world&#8217;s leading anti-pornography campaigner&#8221; and &#8220;a highly regarded academic&#8221; (according to this profile by Julie Bindel). Parts one, two and three have been published, with Dines&#8217; final response due to appear shortly. The initial invitation from NLP [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&#038;blog=4222123&#038;post=4315&#038;subd=houseofpaper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lansley&#8217;s attack on abortion: expensive, disruptive and unjustified</title>
		<link>http://sarahditum.com/2012/04/05/lansleys-attack-on-abortion-expensive-disruptive-and-unjustified/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost 600 routine inspections of hospitals and care homes have been cancelled by the Care Quality Commission in order to pursue a direct order from health secretary Andrew Lansley to make the investigation of abortion clinics &#8220;a priority&#8221;, according to a report by the BBC. In a letter from the CQC to the Department Of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&#038;blog=4222123&#038;post=4309&#038;subd=houseofpaper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pandas are perverts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pandas are terrible at sex. Today I learned that female pandas are only fertile for two days a year. For Edinburgh zoo resident Tian Tian, that brief knocking-up window started today. If pandas had any sense of responsibility to their genes, this would be the prompt for some mad panda action. They would be at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&#038;blog=4222123&#038;post=4275&#038;subd=houseofpaper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs of the stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the late &#8217;90s, a story emerged that made dogs a rebuke to post-Communist Russia. Ivan Mishukov ran away from his neglectful mother and her alcoholic boyfriend aged four, and survived two years on the streets of Moscow by begging for food and sharing his spoils with a pack of stray dogs that became his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&#038;blog=4222123&#038;post=4257&#038;subd=houseofpaper&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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