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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week I put out a piece about a GP management company, eHarley Street Central Management Ltd, that had been given a contract by Aneurin Bevan University Health Board to run a number of GP practices in the Gwent valleys. The piece was written following many reports that eHarley Street&#8217;s behaviour towards patients, staff, and &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/eharley-street-an-update/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">eHarley Street: An Update</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Left: Lost, Found, Re-purposed, Finished</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let me start by explaining that the title does not refer to the sad buggers in forgotten communities who vote Labour out of force of habit, nor the careerists they vote for. I&#8217;m dealing with those who bring city streets to a standstill waving terrorist flags and shouting anti-Semitic slogans. Antifa, BLM, and all the &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/the-left-lost-found-re-purposed-finished/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Left: Lost, Found, Re-purposed, Finished</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The tangled web</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2020 08:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PLEASE APPRECIATE THAT I GET SENT MORE INFORMATION AND LEADS THAN I CAN USE. I TRY TO RESPOND TO EVERYONE WHO CONTACTS ME BUT I CANNOT POSSIBLY USE EVERY BIT OF INFORMATION I&#8217;M SENT. DIOLCH YN FAWR ♦ This a complicated story, so I advise you to pay attention. I&#8217;ve written about Dawnus and Hydro &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/the-tangled-web/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The tangled web</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>GE2019: runners, riders and early fallers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2019 08:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PLEASE APPRECIATE THAT I GET SENT MORE INFORMATION AND LEADS THAN I CAN USE. I TRY TO RESPOND TO EVERYONE WHO CONTACTS ME BUT I CANNOT POSSIBLY USE EVERY BIT OF INFORMATION I&#8217;M SENT. DIOLCH YN FAWR ♦ There&#8217;s to be a general election on December 12 (haven&#8217;t you heard!) and already the parties are &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/ge2019-runners-riders-and-early-fallers/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">GE2019: runners, riders and early fallers</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>President Donald J Trump, a statement</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2019 18:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that I supported the election of Donald J Trump in 2016. That was for a number of reasons; not least because I identified with the people who supported Trump, the forgotten Americans; and because the thought of Hillary Clinton in the White House, spewing forth her well-practised brand of venomous liberal hypocrisy, &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/president-donald-j-trump-a-statement/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">President Donald J Trump, a statement</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chilcot and Iraq, All You Really Need to Know</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 18:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Having read the full Chilcot Report on the invasion of Iraq by the USA and the UK &#8211; in the original Latin &#8211; I have decided to spare my readers that ordeal by giving a succinct summary of what lies behind that disaster and why we are where we are. However, for the masochists among &#8230; <p><a href="https://jacothenorth.net/blog/chilcot-and-iraq-all-you-really-need-to-know/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Chilcot and Iraq, All You Really Need to Know</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
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