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		<title>Market Analysts: The Chancellor isn&#8217;t responsible for low gilt yields</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just before Christmas I wrote a slightly too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/market-analysts-the-chancellor-isnt-responsible-for-low-gilt-yields/</link>
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		<title>EU: Single Market, Equal Rights?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The EU has taken a lot of flak [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/eu-single-market-equal-rights/</link>
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		<title>EU Treaty: Europe’s social protections are part of the solution, not the problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is arguably the most critical time for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/eu-treaty-europe%e2%80%99s-social-protections-are-part-of-the-solution-not-the-problem/</link>
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		<title>French unions put Sarko&#8217;s FTT in context</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarkozy’s cabinet discussed this week its long-awaited Bill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/french-unions-put-sarkos-ftt-in-context/</link>
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		<title>Web links for 9th February 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moving on &#8211; a social experiment Ben Baumberg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/web-links-for-9th-february-2012/</link>
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		<title>Now ITV sails into renewables?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Expect the renewables industry to take another pasting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/now-itv-sails-into-renwables/</link>
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		<title>Social housing and under-occupation: the wrong priorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we know, the government thinks too many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/social-housing-and-under-occupation-the-wrong-priorities/</link>
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		<title>QE: welcome but more needs to be done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bank of England, as was widely expected, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/qe-welcome-but-more-needs-to-be-done/</link>
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		<title>Some good news on jobs, but what does it mean?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a post at Left Foot Forward, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/some-good-news-on-jobs-but-what-does-it-mean/</link>
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		<title>Freeze the auto-enrolment thresholds to keep women in pensions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The coalition government&#8217;s review of pensions auto-enrolment made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/freeze-the-auto-enrolment-thresholds-to-keep-women-in-pensions/</link>
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		<title>The magnificent (European) nine backing Robin Hood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[French newspaper Le Monde reported yesterday that nine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/the-magnificent-european-nine-backing-robin-hood/</link>
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		<title>Web links for 7th February 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Unemployed are getting (called) lazy again: A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/web-links-for-6th-february-2012/</link>
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		<title>Communities must share in the growing benefits of onshore wind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2011 was a record breaking year for wind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/communities-must-share-in-the-growing-benefits-of-onshore-wind/</link>
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		<title>Cameron plans to let Europe take £21bn a year from the City &#8230; and we get nothing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big Four accountancy giant Ernst &#38; Young say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/cameron-plans-to-let-europe-take-21bn-a-year-from-the-city-and-we-get-nothing/</link>
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		<title>EU Robin Hood Tax would boost growth, say experts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new report, launched in Brussels on Monday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/eu-robin-hood-tax-would-boost-growth-say-experts/</link>
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		<title>Now Tory MPs attack wind industry jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recession looms, unemployment touches a 17-year high. But 101 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/now-tory-mps-attack-wind-industry-jobs/</link>
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		<title>So there is no shortage of jobs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, according to DWP minister Maria Miller, there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/so-there-is-no-shortage-of-jobs/</link>
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		<title>UN Secretary General condemns austerity, calls for action against inequality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has issued a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/un-secretary-general-condemns-austerity-calls-for-action-against-inequality/</link>
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		<title>Giving future Olympic Games an ethical dimension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The row about the decision by the organisers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/giving-future-olympic-games-an-ethical-dimension/</link>
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		<title>Web links for 3rd February 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NIESR UK and world economy forecast NIESR expects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/02/web-links-for-3rd-february-2012/</link>
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