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		<title>South African Christmas (2)</title>
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		<title>South African Christmas (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a hectic last few weeks at work rushing to get content for two magazines written and edited, it was with some relief that we closed the office and were able to look forward to a long break. A manic Christmas party was hastily and successfully arranged, and after a blur of a few days [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tpjackson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14983536&amp;post=840&amp;subd=tpjackson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s latest shameful climbdown on Guantanamo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As President, I will close Guantanamo, reject the Military Commissions Act and adhere to the Geneva Conventions. Our Constitution and our Uniform Code of Military Justice provide a framework for dealing with the terrorists.&#8221; The words of then-Senator Barack Obama in August 2007, making a promise he would repeat often during his successful presidential campaign, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tpjackson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14983536&amp;post=833&amp;subd=tpjackson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mombasa and Diani Beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While some friends decided that hiking Mount Kenya was a suitably relaxing way to spend the Independence Day weekend (yet another excuse for Kenyans to take a day off work) we decided that hitting the coast was a better way to end the year. With this in mind we boarded the very colonial Nairobi-Mombasa train. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tpjackson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14983536&amp;post=826&amp;subd=tpjackson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jeremy Clarkson&#8217;s a buffoon who thinks he&#8217;s funny. Get over it</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this blog says it all really. Yes, Jeremy Clarkson is an overpaid fool who thinks he is much more amusing than he actually is. Unfortunately, the BBC and millions of Top Gear viewers agree, and thus he is incessantly wheeled out in order to make some kind of outrageous remark that will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tpjackson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14983536&amp;post=821&amp;subd=tpjackson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific advances v. Economic realities: World AIDS Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living in Kenya means World Aids Day has a particular resonance to me this year. With 7.1 percent of adults between the ages of 15 and 49 infected with HIV, the country is at the forefront of the global battle against the disease. Indeed, the impact of HIV/AIDS has always been at its most devastating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tpjackson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14983536&amp;post=818&amp;subd=tpjackson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Economic gloom spells trouble for Tories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One could almost feel sorry for George Osborne as he faced the House of Commons to deliver his bleak autumn statement, knowing he was about to paint a dismal picture of the British economy and undermine his own claims of competency in handling its problems. That is, if one was able to forget that he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tpjackson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14983536&amp;post=813&amp;subd=tpjackson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Masai Mara</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After deciding to suck up the cost and embark on the quintessential, must-do aspect of Kenyan tourism &#8211; the Masai Mara &#8211; eleven of us piled into two safari vans last Friday morning to start what would certainly wind up being an interesting weekend. After making the journey out to the Mara, via the town [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tpjackson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14983536&amp;post=807&amp;subd=tpjackson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kakamega Forest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit to not  being too optimistic about the standard of Kenyan overnight bus travel, but I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the Easy Coach bus that took us from Nairobi to the small town of Kakamega on a Friday night. The standard of the road, however, declined massively as the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tpjackson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14983536&amp;post=799&amp;subd=tpjackson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The smokescreen of &#8216;Poppygate&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurrah! Silly season is over! The combined might of Prince William and David Cameron have defeated the evil forces of Sepp Blatter and FIFA. England is once again victorious! Land of Hope and Glory etc. No, we haven&#8217;t overturned the ridiculousness of the decision to award successive World Cups to Russia and Qatar. Frank Lampard&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tpjackson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14983536&amp;post=796&amp;subd=tpjackson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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