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		<title>Keep it buttoned, ladies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies! Check your frontages! We&#8217;ve been searching for decades to discover just why it&#8217;s so damn hard for woman to advance in parliament or the media. Why are there just five women in the cabinet? Still, with 21% of posts, female politicians are only doing slightly worse that female journalists, who racked up 22% of articles; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&amp;blog=4222123&amp;post=3918&amp;subd=houseofpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex some consumer muscle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gym contract is a swindle. Once you&#8217;ve paid your money and signed the papers, you&#8217;re not that likely to go back. Instead, a mixture of indolence and guilt means you keep on letting the direct debits trickle out of your account while you tell yourself that, yes, last month you failed but this month [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&amp;blog=4222123&amp;post=3903&amp;subd=houseofpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[Guest post] Marky Mark talks the most marvellous shit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mhairi McFarlane has bangs like a mofo and you can glean more of her awesomeness on Twitter. It’s confident indeed to say the Talking The Most Marvellous Shit 2012 trophy has been taken already, but by jove, it’s January &#8211; and I think Mark Wahlberg might have done it. I didn’t mean to become Sarah’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&amp;blog=4222123&amp;post=3895&amp;subd=houseofpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supersize fibs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the bullshit that is bullshitted, some of the sloppiest, stickiest nonsense is the stuff about diets and exercise, and there&#8217;s more of it around in January than at any other time of year. Well, apart from the bikini diets in June, the Christmas party body blitzes, the Easter eggs-ercise routines and, for all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&amp;blog=4222123&amp;post=3867&amp;subd=houseofpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[Guest post] The ultimate celebrity interview!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mhairi McFarlane is a kirby-grip strewing angel of vengeance and you should follow her on Twitter if you&#8217;ve got any smarts at all. I am so sick of reading this interview. You read it all the time, constantly, year in, year out, in every glossy magazine and Sunday supplement. It’s founded on the twin principles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&amp;blog=4222123&amp;post=3853&amp;subd=houseofpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silicone sympathies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News that thousands of women have received breast implants containing mattress filler seemed to incite a competitive streak. Who&#8217;s going to show the most ostentatious contempt for the affected parties? Way out in front, of course, you&#8217;ve got Jean-Claude Mas, founder of PIP – the company that made the implants. Mas has admitted that he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&amp;blog=4222123&amp;post=3825&amp;subd=houseofpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revolting principles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Rick Santorum is a disgusting man. His statements on same-sex relationships and abortion are morally repugnant, but that&#8217;s not the entirety of his revoltingness. Santorum&#8217;s rhetoric is designed to disgust. When he compares gay sex to incest and bestiality, he&#8217;s tugging at your sense of taboo so he can elicit the same revulsion that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&amp;blog=4222123&amp;post=3817&amp;subd=houseofpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The political womb</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ditum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an environment where every uterus in America is politicised territory, why should the candidates&#8217; wives get a free pass? Aspiring Republican nominee Rick Santorum is very strongly anti-abortion – he opposes medical termination of pregnancy in almost all circumstances, including conceptions resulting from rape or incest. So the possibility that his wife received an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&amp;blog=4222123&amp;post=3803&amp;subd=houseofpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My year in books 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I decided I was going to write a review of my reading year, I had a bit of an anxious moment: totting up my annual literary consumption, it seemed that I hadn&#8217;t read very much at all. I was wrong, it was just that I&#8217;d blanked out the 4,576 pages of George RR Martin&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&amp;blog=4222123&amp;post=3787&amp;subd=houseofpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labour gives up fighting giants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Labour party doesn&#8217;t hate the welfare state like the nasty Tory party. No, no. The Labour party just hates what the welfare state has become. If only it hadn&#8217;t strayed from the first principles of the 1942 Beveridge report, we&#8217;d be free from the dread perils of &#8220;scroungers&#8221; and &#8220;benefit dependency&#8221;, which the Labour [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahditum.com&amp;blog=4222123&amp;post=3782&amp;subd=houseofpaper&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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