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        <title><![CDATA[Gary Watton: commentator and satirist]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Irish Unity?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 22:20:48 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It's hard to take the possibility of a 32-county state seriously when the Irish Republic don't take it seriously. None of them seem intent on competing in Northern Irish constituencies in a united state. As a consequence, we may well have nine or ten... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Current Update]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2020 18:53:06 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I realised several years ago that I am a little like Charlie George, the Arsenic legend (or Chelsea's Alan Hudson). Tis all the more surprising, since I dinnae support Arsenil. Our Charlie was one of the most talented players of his generation. If he... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The BBC, the News Of The World, First Minister Peter Robinson, and Me! ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2020 23:18:27 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I'm a bit reluctant to tell this tale. I'm not sure that it puts me in a good light, but it is what it is. Besides, it's just over ten years ago, and I have made a lot of strides recently and am actually in a better frame of mind nowadays. I used to work... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Greedy Pigs]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:06:47 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[MORE THAN SIXTY GREEDY PIGS The following individuals are named in recent annual reports for various Northern Ireland Executive departments. Some people might say that those below are selfish, overpaid money grabbers, but I couldn't possibly comment.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[You've Been Framed]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2020 22:20:29 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Framed Certificate Copies Of The Ulster Covenant for sale, £8. Simply email gw930@yahoo.com with the names of your ancestors and I will dispatch a certificate on request. Also, framed certificate copies of the dead from the two world wars are also available,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Britain's Safest Seats (see also http://psephologist.blog.com)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2013 09:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[What constitutes a safe seat? Let me throw the following suggestion out there. First of all, it is not sufficient to state that a seat is safe if the elected Member of Parliament possesses more than half of the vote. At Bristol North East in 1970, Robert... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Britain's Fascist Regime by the commentator Gary Watton]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Modern Britain is a fascist democracy. A what? I hear you say. Seriously, folks. Our parents, grandparents, and assorted ancestors went to war in the early 1940s seemingly to defeat the disease of fascism, or more particularly Nazism. However, fascism... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A dark horse? Yes!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:47:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Gary Watton, the world's least-known celebrity, is a prolific author, commentator and historian of informative, non-fiction reference books. He was born in Fulford Maternity Hospital because there was no room at the inn. An accomplished air guitarist,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[BBC hypocrisy by the author and whistleblower Gary Watton]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:11:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Permit me to share the following information with you. I have previously worked for a Belfast taxi firm and as a consequence I had access to literally thousands of taxi bookings. This item refers to bookings that... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Manifesto by the author and commentator Gary Watton]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:09:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[No this isn’t a homage to a Roxy Music album from the 1970s, but instead this page is my own vision for the Disunited Queendom. Tony Bennett once sang ‘If I Ruled The World’. Well here is my programme for government if I ruled Little Britain. [The following... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A British Holocaust? by the author and historian Gary Watton]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The purpose of this blog piece is to highlight the state-sponsored terror that was doled out to the populace during the seemingly eventful decades during which the Tudor family sat on the throne. It is not a mere recital of Foxe’s Book Of Martyrs nor... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[British ska by the author and musicologist Gary Watton; xo]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:46:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[GENTLE INTRODUCTION When I foolishly went to Aston University at the end of the ‘eighties, I apparently introduced myself to other blokes in my accommodation block as “Me name’s Ga and I like ska.” Well, as someone who has owned and played all the albums... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Posthumous Pardons Please! by the historian Gary Watton]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[One fine Friday morn in late March whilst delaying my departure from the comfort zone of my bed, I decided to browse through a nearby history book. I randomly picked up ‘Six Wives’ by David Starkey. I chose well. I immediately re-acquainted myself with... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Margaret Moron: a cheating, cowardly crook by Gary Watton]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am disgusted that the disgraced former MP Margaret Moran was able to escape prison on Friday the 14th of December when a team of so-called experts [or softies more likely] decreed that Moran was too doo-lally to enter a plea. This is a sickening example... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Great Instrumentals by the author and historian Gary Watton]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[GENTLE INTRODUCTION: I would like to state my expertise as a leading authority on the most memorable instrumentals in the history of modern, popular music. Have a browse through the list below and discover some terrific tunes and by all means suggest... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A beautiful sample from the music book, 'You Are A Tube!'; xo]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[How Bizarre by OMC (1996) This is just a breezy, easy listening pop song, no more, no less. OMC stands for Otara Millionaires Club. What was bizarre was that an act from New Zealand should achieve a hit single. That doesn't happen every day. destination... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[An exciting extract from a controversial diary by Ron Gattway]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:31:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Sunday 18 th December Oh this afternoon I nearly 'lost it'. That's assuming that I ever 'had it' in the first place. I went a-walking for my weekly takeaway fix along Railway Road. I saw a gang of young ragamuffins on my side of the road. Well, I just... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The 2010 UK election in 'The Celtic Fringe' by Grant Toway]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:08:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Celtic-Fringe-Westminster-Elections-1970-2010/dp/0956272576 SCOTLAND Labour’s two ‘gains’ were merely a case of re-capturing two seats that they had lost in recent by-elections to the Liberal Democrats and the SNP. For all their... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The 2005 UK election in 'The Celtic Fringe' by Grant Toway]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Celtic-Fringe-Westminster-Elections-1970-2010/dp/0956272576 SCOTLAND Ordinarily, a loss of fifteen parliamentary seats would be perceived as a catastrophe, but Labour’s representation was drastically cut on account of a boundary... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The 2001 UK election in 'The Celtic Fringe' by Grant Toway]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:38:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Celtic-Fringe-Westminster-Elections-1970-2010/dp/0956272576 Remarkably, only one constituency changed hands in Scotland, as the Conservatives narrowly secured Galloway & Upper Nithsdale, thereby breathing some semblance of life... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The 1997 UK election in 'The Celtic Fringe' by Grant Toway]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Celtic-Fringe-Westminster-Elections-1970-2010/dp/0956272576 After a staggering eighteen years in government, the Conservative Party had outstayed its welcome. As well as taking a ferocious hit south of the border, the Conservatives... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The 1992 UK election in 'The Celtic Fringe' by Grant Toway]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:02:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Celtic-Fringe-Westminster-Elections-1970-2010/dp/0956272576 SCOTLAND The gains and losses included Labour retrieving Glasgow Govan, which they had conceded to the SNP in a by-election and the Conservative Party re-capturing Kincardine... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The 1987 UK election in 'The Celtic Fringe' by Grant Toway]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:29:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Celtic-Fringe-Westminster-Elections-1970-2010/dp/0956272576 The Scottish Conservatives paid a heavy price for Mrs Thatcher’s no-nonsense approach to what her government regarded as failing heavy industries. The Liberal/SDP Alliance... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The 1983 UK election in 'The Celtic Fringe' by Grant Toway]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Scotland's representation at Westminster increased from 71 to seventy-two seats. Many old seats were laid to rest while new ones were born in the recent boundary review. The new SDP contested 35 constituencies while their partners the Liberals competed... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The 1979 UK election in 'The Celtic Fringe' by Grant Toway]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:07:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[While the Liberals absconded from a lot of the constituency contests again, this election reversed the swing that characterised the October 1974 election. This time there was a surge in support for the Conservatives, and the SNP suffered a large collapse... ]]></description>
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