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	<title>Jon Pullman</title>
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	<description>Independent Commentator and Photo Journalist</description>
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		<title>Paxman, Thomas &#038; Alexander - 2 minute theatre</title>
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It was a compelling moment of live theatre which redeemed all those lugubrious hours of panel guest economic doom mongery which litters the news coverage at &#8220;this difficult time&#8221;.
Mark Thomas, comedian and political activist, unhindered by the need to mince words, was relishing the chance to expose the choicer nuggets of political reality underlying the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonpullman.com/?p=96</link>
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		<title>Can doing God do any good?</title>
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The 21st Century is up for grabs and there are many individuals or groups, thinkers and ideologues who would have us buy in to their own vision of how the current mass hiatus of certainty can best be addressed for the world’s future.
Compass, for example, the UK campaign group of the democratic left, has growing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonpullman.com/?p=87</link>
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		<title>The wistful fell runner - a cheerleaders view on the Carnethy 5, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we all know, winters are not what they used to be. Even the uplands rising beyond the Forth valley in Central Scotland rarely see any snow worth mentioning these days and in recent years, the scheduling of an ever expanding calendar of organized outdoor events have inched further into traditionally less clement months without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonpullman.com/?p=71</link>
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		<title>Government goes all E-Queasy, again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his rather flippantly titled article “Equasy” David Nutt, new chairman of The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, refers to “equine addition syndrome” and it’s responsibility for 100 deaths every year.
Professor Nutt, may be making a valid statistical point about the relative dangers of consuming ecstasy and horse riding, but his comments can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonpullman.com/?p=64</link>
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		<title>&#8220;please step away from the truth sir!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is but one thing in the post 9/11 world used to justify not just the piecemeal erosion of British civil liberties but the relentless dilution of its moral integrity, it is that piece of string of indeterminate length called &#8220;national security&#8221;.
First, a capitulation to the sneaky sheikhs of misogynistic, human-rights-free zone, Saudi Arabia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonpullman.com/?p=62</link>
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		<title>Israeli &#8220;self defence&#8221; - a subterfuge like no other</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are few issues I have witnessed on BBC’s Question time more emotionally polarizing than the most recent Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Even the normally robust chairmanship of Jonathan Dimbleby was briefly unequal to the flurry of rising hackles and bad-tempered heckles from the studio audience.
I can understand a contrary position if you are a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonpullman.com/?p=56</link>
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		<title>Lest We Forget - the universal battlefield</title>
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Lest We Forget - the universal battlefield from jon Pullman on Vimeo.
In October of this year, i took my elderly parents to Belgium. Like many of his generation, my father, having lived through a world war, retains a keen interest in the events and stories of both the global military conflicts which have come to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonpullman.com/?p=50</link>
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		<title>the cuddly side of a catastrophic week</title>
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In a mad start to May when international newsdesks have been smoking with the combined heat of wars, rumours of wars and ghastly natural disasters, it may be a comfort for some readers that the news editors representing them can remain focussed on local stories for local people. 
 

It&#8217;s all very well having elephants in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonpullman.com/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Life in occupied Edinburgh</title>
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Today, a few words about a supermarket.
TESCO DOESN’T LOVE THE PEOPLE OF EDINBURGH!
I was instore at Tesco metro on Clerk street yesterday. More check-in than checkout,  the till queues stretched backwards and deep into the aisles, where shoppers had to negotiate lines of lightly snoozing customers, and a basket-strewn floor to select the least [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonpullman.com/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Cluster bombs, commercial imperative and the conundrum of national pride</title>
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So, one moment Gordon wants us all to salute the union flag and get a warm glow about Britishness, and the next you know he’s flying the St Georges Cross from outside his house in deference to English nationalism. Thing is, ignoring the Prime Minister&#8217;s desperate attempt to bat for both sides, whichever symbol or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonpullman.com/?p=46</link>
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