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		<title>&#8216;Life of Pi&#8217; by Yann Martel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Sumners</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has apparently described Life of Pi as “an elegant proof of God”. But in the opinion of this agnostic - a position vilified (inexpertly) in the novel – if it is such a proof, it is in the least interesting of ways.]]></description>
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		<title>The voluntary sector needs a clear vision for the future of our society</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Sumners</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governments rarely have a long-term plan, which is why the voluntary sector needs a clear strategy]]></description>
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		<title>Senseless</title>
		<link>http://www.dansumners.co.uk/2011/12/12/senseless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Sumners</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[short stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do the words ‘woke up’ mean when the utterer who utters them was, at the time, deprived of all information from or about the world? ]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie Brooker’s anthem sings of a nation I don’t recognise</title>
		<link>http://www.dansumners.co.uk/2011/12/10/charlie-brooker%e2%80%99s-anthem-sings-of-a-nation-i-don%e2%80%99t-recognise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Sumners</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Mirror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Channel 4]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The National Anthem]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA['The National Anthem' is a well acted, slick production, but as a piece of social commentary it is based on a narrow view of people as little more than cattle, and as storytelling its flaw is to abandon its coherence in favour of a predetermined conclusion designed to shock]]></description>
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		<title>The voluntary sector, public services and the myth of choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Sumners</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[about politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to education, health and housing, do we really want our fate decided by the market?]]></description>
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		<title>Personhood</title>
		<link>http://www.dansumners.co.uk/2011/12/02/personhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Sumners</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metaphysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unconscious]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An account of the concept as the mitigation of unconscious metaphysical anxiety]]></description>
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		<title>The beauty and understanding of Charlie Kaufman</title>
		<link>http://www.dansumners.co.uk/2011/11/28/the-beauty-and-understanding-of-charlie-kaufman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dansumners.co.uk/2011/11/28/the-beauty-and-understanding-of-charlie-kaufman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Sumners</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[journal entries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bafta screenwriter lecture 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charlie kaufman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An extract from his BAFTA screenwriter lecture earlier this year]]></description>
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		<title>London</title>
		<link>http://www.dansumners.co.uk/2011/11/25/london/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Sumners</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[flash fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amwriting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[littlest hobo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peirene Press]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My entry to the Peirene Press short story competition, in which the life of a man is coloured by his childhood fascination with a four legged hero]]></description>
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		<title>A chance encounter</title>
		<link>http://www.dansumners.co.uk/2011/11/16/a-chance-encounter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Sumners</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[flash fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A writer seeks advice on an intractable problem]]></description>
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		<title>Revelation</title>
		<link>http://www.dansumners.co.uk/2011/11/13/revelation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Sumners</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[flash fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[scepticism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A little sceptical flash fiction]]></description>
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