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		<title>What Does the Public Think of Tony Blair?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Does the Public Think of Tony Blair?
Gerry Hassan
September 6th 2010
Amidst all the hullabaloo about Tony Blair’s autobiography and the frenetic activity around promoting it, protesting at book launches, and people moving it around book shops – and placing it in crime or sci-fi – it is interesting to note the complex pattern of public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Tony Blair Book and the Failure of New Labour</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The First Tony Blair Book and the Failure of New Labour
Gerry Hassan
Open Democracy, September 5th 2010
This week has been a total Blair-fest. The launch of Tony Blair’s memoirs, the carefully crafted and controlled TV interviews, and the even more planned book signing with resulting protests. It has all had a certain cinematic, star quality to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Might Be Giants: The Old Firm&#8217;s Great Escape to England</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They Might Be Giants: The Old Firm’s Great Escape to England
Gerry Hassan
The Scotsman, September 4th 2010
Scottish football sells newspapers, fills the airwaves and carries a resonance way beyond the football field. It contributes economic benefits, social capital, the occasional feel good factor, and raises Scotland’s profile and reputation globally.
Scotland per head is the third most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming Scottish Revolution and Tony Blair&#8217;s Memoirs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coming Scottish Revolution and Tony Blair’s Memoirs
Gerry Hassan
Open Democracy, September 2nd 2010
Scottish politics have been in a sense of disbelief since the UK general election. The Con-Lib Dem coalition government is being slowly assessed by the main two parties north of the border, SNP and Labour.
We have an SNP administration under Alex Salmond – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Short List of Things I Love About Living in Modern Scotland!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Short List of Things I Love About Living in Modern Scotland
Gerry Hassan
August 26th 2010
Years ago – inspired by the ending of ‘Manhattan’ the film – I wrote a list of over twenty things that made feel glad to be alive. Woody at the end of the film – feeling down in the dumps – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Age of Radicalism after &#8216;the Left&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Age of Radicalism after ‘the Left’
Gerry Hassan
The Scotsman, August 26th 2010
Scotland sees itself as a centre-left country. We haven’t voted for the Tories since the 1950s, didn’t like Mrs Thatcher and her ism, and are supposedly more comfortable with collectivism than individualism.
The Scottish left has a rich and proud history &#8211; standing against exploitation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Need an Alternative Festival of Politics!</title>
		<link>http://www.gerryhassan.com/?p=1336</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why We Need an Alternative Festival of Politics!
Gerry Hassan
Bella Caledonia, August 23rd 2010
Scotland has many wonderful qualities and attributes which make me proud to live and work here, and feel passionate and hopeful about this nation. This includes lots of people that I feel honoured to know who push for and lead change, aid others, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Scotland Stands? The Strange State of the Scottish Left and the Cultural Assembly of a Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where Scotland Stands? The Strange State of the Scottish Left and the Cultural Assembly of a Nation
Gerry Hassan
Open Democracy, August 18th 2010
The left in Scotland is in not in a good state on any level, in terms of numbers on the ground, ideas, the wider environment and its general psyche. Clearly if we were talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scottish Potential of &#8216;the Big Society&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.gerryhassan.com/?p=1326</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Potential of ‘the Big Society’
Gerry Hassan
The Scotsman, August 13th 2010
The prevalent reaction of many people I know in Scotland to David Cameron’s idea of ‘the Big Society’ is to pour scorn on to it, and dismiss it as window dressing for the forthcoming cuts.
This has a similarity to the haughty dismissal of ‘the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Man of Iron: Who Comes After the Jimmy Reids of this World?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Man of Iron: Who Comes After the Jimmy Reids of this World?
Gerry Hassan
Open Democracy, August 13th 2010
The tributes to Jimmy Reid have been many and fulsome. They have come from across the political spectrum and from near and far – from his hometown of Glasgow to the Govan of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, to [...]]]></description>
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