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		<title>The Beat-Herder Festival 2010 (Review)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curioser and Curioser….Take a trip down festival-land’s peculiar rabbit hole at The Beat-Herder, Lancashire If you were to take a group of creative artists and music-lovers, feed them acid and ask them to brainstorm their ideas for the best festival on earth, then you might get somewhere close to imagining the wacky carnival of ‘Beats [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sophiemcadam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4114860&amp;post=138&amp;subd=sophiemcadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Northumberland and the Farne Islands: travel piece</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northumberland and The Farne Islands: Idyllic, Historic, Spectacular Just two miles off England’s stunning Northumbrian coastline, grey seals laze on rocky outcrops jutting from the rolling waves while puffins, kittiwakes, cormorants, razorbills and guillemots soar in the blue sky high above the water carrying fish for their young. Here lie the iconic Farne Islands, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sophiemcadam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4114860&amp;post=135&amp;subd=sophiemcadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Change-a-lujah people! Joining Rev Billy on his Shopocalypse Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a perfectly ordinary day in a Liverpool city centre branch of Tesco. Customers clutching lunchtime snacks queue patiently in silence. Bored-looking cashiers scan sandwiches and salads on autopilot, daydreaming of clocking off and enjoying the sunshine outside. Suddenly, the store fills up with men and women wearing long green robes, making low humming noises [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sophiemcadam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4114860&amp;post=133&amp;subd=sophiemcadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The rise of social movements- technology or philanthropy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s 1am and there is a stranger asleep on my sofa, rucksack at his side, snoring gently. Six hours earlier I’d been standing in the arrivals terminal at Manchester airport, self-consciously holding my homemade sign scrawled with the name ‘Ashley Drew’ and scanning the crowd for a face I’d only seen in a few blurred [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sophiemcadam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4114860&amp;post=128&amp;subd=sophiemcadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli aggressors should take their morals from personal history</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully, somewhere deep inside, every Jew of conscience knows that this was no war; that this was not G-d's restitution of the holy land to it's rightful owners. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sophiemcadam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4114860&amp;post=121&amp;subd=sophiemcadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conscientious Objectors Stand Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the deplorable Mumbai attacks, I have noticed a significant number of my Facebook acquaintances have rushed to join thousands of others in the website’s ‘support our troops’ cyber groups. I have nothing against this flurry of action per se- I appreciate British and US troops are doing jobs I wouldn’t wish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sophiemcadam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4114860&amp;post=117&amp;subd=sophiemcadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You have the right to remain silent&#8230;&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://sophiemcadam.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/you-have-the-right-to-remain-silent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Jacqueline Maitland was arrested at a peaceful protest against ID cards this year, it was at the behest of the Home Office. Bundled into a police car and locked in a cell, her fingerprints were taken, along with a DNA sample she was given no explanation for. Her associate Charlie was not allowed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sophiemcadam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4114860&amp;post=96&amp;subd=sophiemcadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science vs Spirituality: the bigger picture</title>
		<link>http://sophiemcadam.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/science-vs-spirituality-the-bigger-picture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins, scientist and outspoken atheist, thinks we should start a revolution. Purge the world of organised religion, fight back against political correctness and the loss of our freedom to speak up against fundamentalist ideas, embrace Darwinism and realise the truth of the matter: that for centuries, religion has been used as a means of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sophiemcadam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4114860&amp;post=66&amp;subd=sophiemcadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Christian hijacking of paganism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading the letters page of Metro newspaper the other day, one correspondence caught my attention. It was a ridiculous fire-and-brimstone ramble from a Roman Catholic, who branded Halloween &#8216;wicked&#8217; and &#8216;evil&#8217;, shrieking it&#8217;s a travesty anyone celebrates it at all when what we should really be doing is sitting at home blessing ourselves with holy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sophiemcadam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4114860&amp;post=64&amp;subd=sophiemcadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banksy&#8217;s unveiling and what it says about our class system</title>
		<link>http://sophiemcadam.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/banksys-unveiling-and-what-it-says-about-our-class-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsflash: Banksy is, dare I say it, middle class. Yes, he’s been outed in the most shocking manner; the Mail on Sunday spent a whole year tracking him down and putting together the most exclusive exclusive in the history of journalism. I love Banksy’s work, for the record. I find it beautiful, honest, inspiring, intelligent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sophiemcadam.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4114860&amp;post=54&amp;subd=sophiemcadam&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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