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	<title>Gavin Orland &#187; Society</title>
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		<title>Great quotation</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/great-quotation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.&#8221;
Arnold Toynbee 
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		<title>NSS Secularist of the Year award</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/nss-secularist-of-the-year-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/nss-secularist-of-the-year-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m touching on an issue that is very taboo here: race. While criticism of religion is now fairly passé, if you dare to even remotely question anything to do with perceived wisdom on race you will instantly be branded racist. Oh well, that&#8217;s the point here, to challenge the dogmas of political correctness, so here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The colours of London are black, blue and grey</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/the-colours-of-london-are-black-blue-and-grey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/the-colours-of-london-are-black-blue-and-grey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you travel on the London Underground, as I have done frequently for 20 years, you might notice something: from a palette of many different colours, some vibrant and happy, people invariably choose shades of only three: black, blue and grey.
There is nothing to stop people from choosing brighter colours: red, orange, yellow and green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On dealing with Tooting police</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/on-dealing-with-tooting-police/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/on-dealing-with-tooting-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am generally greatly in favour of the police*, of course &#8211; without them there would be total anarchy. I especially like the rank and file officers, generally speaking. The senior management seem to be in league with the leftist cabal running government and I suspect many become overly concerned with self promotion and protection, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Steyn writes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/mark-steyn-writes-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/mark-steyn-writes-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Steyn has posted up some fascinating photos showing that more women wear the hijab in Cairo now than they did in the 1970s. Obviously the number has greatly increased in London too &#8211; to the point that I can hardly set foot outside my door without seeing anti-social face coverings and emblems or religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick letter to NSS</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/quick-letter-to-nss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/quick-letter-to-nss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Geert Wilders (currently on trial for telling the truth in the Netherlands) has again been invited by members of the House of Lords to come and show his short film Fitna there.
The Telegraph reports here that Lord Ahmed has again threatened to mobilise 10,000 Muslims to block Mr Wilders from entering the House of Lords. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting the side down</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/letting-the-side-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/letting-the-side-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If people who are highly educated are going to turn anti-social behaviour into a kind of joke, and make of antisocial people heroes for the entire country, you can hardly be surprised when public behaviour deteriorates.&#8221;
- Theodore Dalrymple
Again I preface an article with a quotation from Theodore Dalrymple &#8211; because the man speaks such sense.
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Goebbels describes propaganda</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/dr-goebbels-describes-propaganda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/dr-goebbels-describes-propaganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Goebbels understood propaganda. Here he describes propaganda methodology in a way that seems also to describe the policy of the government and the BBC here in the UK. For example, they are both devoted to the ideology of multiculturalism despite mounting evidence of its inherent problems, and both repeatedly tell us that Islam is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gym music</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/gym-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/gym-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You notice all kinds of things at the gym. People sitting around doing nothing, sitting on machines so other people can&#8217;t use them, grunting loudly and inconsiderately because they can&#8217;t manage the weights they&#8217;re lifting, you get all types.
I get on very well with the staff, who are very friendly, and most people are okay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Douglas Murray: speaking truth</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/douglas-murray-speaking-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/douglas-murray-speaking-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Murray, Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, has been turning out some great articles for The Telegraph recently. They&#8217;re remarkable because they are bereft of political correctness and instead full of truth. I just commented under this one as follows:
&#8220;Great article, Douglas. Please keep it up. Few in the media even dare to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnic profiling</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/ethnic-profiling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/ethnic-profiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gavinorland.org/?p=2430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s imagine there was a killer at large, who it was known resembled me. I don&#8217;t identify with any particular religious or ethnic group, but let&#8217;s say I did, and it was known that this killer also belonged to my group. He looks like me, he&#8217;s killing in the name of my group. He&#8217;s bringing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An evening with Theodore Dalrymple</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/an-evening-with-theodore-dalrymple/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/an-evening-with-theodore-dalrymple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 2, 2005, Theodore Dalrymple spoke at the Harvard Club in New York to celebrate the release of his book Our Culture, What&#8217;s Left Of It: The Mandarins and the Masses, published by Ivan R. Dee. This is one of the most well written and important books I have ever read.
By watching a series [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The vulgarity of Richard Dawkins&#8217; forums</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/the-vulgarity-of-richard-dawkins-forums/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/the-vulgarity-of-richard-dawkins-forums/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Moral values are easily reversed: what was formally thought good becomes evil, and vice-versa. This has certainly happened in my own country, Britain, and moreover it has happened as a mass phenomenon which I think, if you visited Britain, you would see on the streets every day.&#8221;
- Theodore Dalrymple
I am very disappointed to have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Orwell predicts political correctness</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/politics/george-orwell-predicts-political-correctness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/politics/george-orwell-predicts-political-correctness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The first and simplest stage in the discipline, which can be taught even to young children, is called, in Newspeak, CRIMESTOP.
CRIMESTOP means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restricting freedom of speech</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/restricting-freedom-of-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/restricting-freedom-of-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good many liberals in the UK have been getting very worked up recently about two decisions:

The banning of minaret building in Switzerland
The banning of Islamist group Islam4UK

There&#8217;s been talk about these decisions possibly restricting freedom of speech for Muslims and I will discuss them here.

Minarets, first of all, are a cultural and political symbol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC criticised by own staff</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/bbc-criticised-by-own-staff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/society/bbc-criticised-by-own-staff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article in the Daily Mail (yes, the Daily Mail) here which I shall quote from:
&#8220;Political pundit Andrew Marr* said: &#8216;The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It&#8217;s a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A wonderful moment</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/music/a-wonderful-moment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/music/a-wonderful-moment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wonderful moment in Spain featuring music from Verdi&#8217;s La Traviata&#8230;











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		<title>We should not be reluctant to assert the superiority of Western values</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/we-should-not-be-reluctant-to-assert-the-superiority-of-western-values/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/we-should-not-be-reluctant-to-assert-the-superiority-of-western-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s not me talking, but the attendees of an Intelligence Squared debate of 2007. They&#8217;re turning out some really interesting debates. This vote was passed. About time too &#8211; someone tell the BBC!
First Vote: 313 For, 221 Against, 207 Don’t Know
Final Vote: 465 For, 264 Against, 18 Don’t Know
Why did they vote in the affirmative? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lynda La Plante laments positive discrimination at BBC</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/lynda-la-plante-laments-positive-discrimination-at-bbc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/lynda-la-plante-laments-positive-discrimination-at-bbc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting to see scriptwriter Lynda La Plante say the following of the BBC&#8217;s commissioning policy:
&#8220;If my name were Usafi Iqbadal and I was 19, then they’d probably bring me in    and talk,” said La Plante. “But&#8230; it’s their lack of respect that really    grates on me.&#8221;
The BBC openly positively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamic maniac tries to kill Danish cartoonist</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/islamic-maniac-tries-to-kill-danish-cartoonist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/religion/islamic-maniac-tries-to-kill-danish-cartoonist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This news just breaking.
Two problems will threaten world peace in this coming decade:

The rise of religion, particularly with an Islamic face
The embrace of decadence in once civilised countries

Until a government stamps down hard on these two problems (instead of ignoring or encouraging them), we&#8217;re going to see a continued decline. It&#8217;s as simple as that.
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