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	<title>Express &#38; StarPeter Rhodes&#8217; Blog  &#187; Express &amp; Star</title>
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		<title>Best of Peter Rhodes – February 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best of this week’s Peter Rhodes column from the Express &amp; Star.]]></description>
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		<title>Best of Peter Rhodes – February 3</title>
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		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/02/03/best-of-peter-rhodes-%e2%80%93-february-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best of this week’s Peter Rhodes column from the Express &amp; Star.]]></description>
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		<title>What the French really think about the Olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“They  won't say it, but many French are gutted to have lost the bid," reports a  Brit living in France who emails the BBC on alleged Gallic envy of the London Olympics.]]></description>
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		<title>Me? I did it everybody else’s way</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/31/me-i-did-it-everybody-else%e2%80%99s-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/31/me-i-did-it-everybody-else%e2%80%99s-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently,  the most requested song over the 70 years of Desert Island Discs has been the Edith Piaf hit, Je Ne Regrette Rien (I have no regrets), writes Peter Rhodes.]]></description>
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		<title>Best of Peter Rhodes – January 27</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/27/best-of-peter-rhodes-%e2%80%93-january-27/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/27/best-of-peter-rhodes-%e2%80%93-january-27/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best of this week’s Peter Rhodes column from the Express &amp; Star.]]></description>
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		<title>Where have the judges been for 50 years?</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/26/where-have-the-judges-been-for-50-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/26/where-have-the-judges-been-for-50-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote recently about  the juror who discovered online that the defendant had a previous arrest for rape, writes Peter Rhodes.]]></description>
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		<title>Coming soon &#8211; HMS Unaffordable and no jets</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/24/coming-soon-hms-unaffordable-and-no-jets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/24/coming-soon-hms-unaffordable-and-no-jets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is  reported that some Royal Navy chiefs are worried that a number of  nations, including Thailand, may soon have bigger fleets than Britain, writes Peter Rhodes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The greater good – who says?</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/19/the-greater-good-%e2%80%93-who-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/19/the-greater-good-%e2%80%93-who-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justice  Secretary Ken Clarke says journalists who use illegal methods such as phone-tapping  for "the greater good” should not necessarily be prosecuted, writes Peter Rhodes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Old folk and the ocean – a fatal combination</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/18/old-folk-and-the-ocean-%e2%80%93-a-fatal-combination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/18/old-folk-and-the-ocean-%e2%80%93-a-fatal-combination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have only ever been on  one cruise liner writes Peter Rhodes.]]></description>
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		<title>An amazing pair of Coxes</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/17/an-amazing-pair-of-coxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/17/an-amazing-pair-of-coxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entertainers’ union Equity insists that no actors share the same stage name, writes Peter Rhodes.]]></description>
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		<title>Kelvin MacKenzie – a national treasure</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/12/kelvin-mackenzie-%e2%80%93-a-national-treasure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/12/kelvin-mackenzie-%e2%80%93-a-national-treasure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big, noisy, abrasive and utterly unrepentant, Kelvin MacKenzie gave his evidence to the Leveson Inquiry this week and then strode out, snarling "gutter Press!" in mock-disgust at the snappers taking his picture, writes Peter Rhodes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Scottish referendum – no place for a Sassenach</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/11/the-scottish-referendum-%e2%80%93-no-place-for-a-sassenach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/11/the-scottish-referendum-%e2%80%93-no-place-for-a-sassenach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let  ’em go, Mr Cameron, writes Peter Rhodes.  Or at least let the Scots have their vote on whether to go.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>£32 billion to keep up with Morocco</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/10/32-billion-to-keep-up-with-morocco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/10/32-billion-to-keep-up-with-morocco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weaker the arguments for the high-speed train (HS2) grew, the more likely the damn thing became, writes Peter Rhodes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Best of Peter Rhodes – January 6</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/06/best-of-peter-rhodes-%e2%80%93-january-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/06/best-of-peter-rhodes-%e2%80%93-january-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best of this week’s Peter Rhodes column from the Express &amp; Star.]]></description>
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		<title>The Olympics &#8211; £10,000 million, for what?</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/05/the-olympics-10000-million-for-what/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/05/the-olympics-10000-million-for-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am  surprised no-one has yet suggested making it a hate crime to be less than enthusiastic about the London Olympics, writes Peter Rhodes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>The case of the Wonderbra wall safe</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/04/the-case-of-the-wonderbra-wall-safe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2012/01/04/the-case-of-the-wonderbra-wall-safe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According  to the lingerie industry, which has years of expertise in such things, between 80 and 85 per cent of women wear the wrong size of bra, writes Peter Rhodes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>They’re off! The real joy of foxhunting</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2011/12/29/they%e2%80%99re-off-the-real-joy-of-foxhunting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2011/12/29/they%e2%80%99re-off-the-real-joy-of-foxhunting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Rhodes writes: Foxhunting is a sport based almost entirely on whoppers, plus the curious belief among hunters that if Joe Public only understood hunting, he would support it (we do, thanks – and we don’t).]]></description>
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		<title>Honour killing – a stain on our nation</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2011/12/28/honour-killing-%e2%80%93-a-stain-on-our-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2011/12/28/honour-killing-%e2%80%93-a-stain-on-our-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another first for British justice, writes Peter Rhodes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>More gizmos – less memory</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2011/12/27/more-gizmos-%e2%80%93-less-memory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2011/12/27/more-gizmos-%e2%80%93-less-memory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big thing  in 2012 will be televisions, music systems and  other electronic gizmos which are operated by voice or hand signal, without the need for remote controls, writes Peter Rhodes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Best of Peter Rhodes – December 23</title>
		<link>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2011/12/23/best-of-peter-rhodes-%e2%80%93-december-23/</link>
		<comments>http://www.expressandstar.com/blogs/peter-rhodes/2011/12/23/best-of-peter-rhodes-%e2%80%93-december-23/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Walters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best of this week’s Peter Rhodes column from the Express &amp; Star.]]></description>
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