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		<title>Infra digging</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Hirst</dc:creator>
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		<title>Things fall apart</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2011/11/things-fall-apart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Hirst</dc:creator>
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		<title>No safe havens</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2011/08/no-safe-havens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Hirst</dc:creator>
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		<title>Fight or flight?</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2011/06/fight-or-flight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Hirst</dc:creator>
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		<title>Beyond the fragments, by Judy Hirst</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Hirst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Localism used to be something councils got excited about. Give us the financial and legal freedoms, they would say, and we'll do great things. Just like the French communes, Swiss cantons and Swedish municipalities. The clamour for a new localist agenda got ever louder under the dirigiste New Labour regime. <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2011/04/beyond-the-fragments-judy-hirst/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Another country, by Judy Hirst</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2011/02/another-country-by-judy-hirst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Hirst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you, or have you ever been, a deficit denier? The term is being bandied about with near-McCarthyite fervour, as debate hots up in anticipation of the Budget <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2011/02/another-country-by-judy-hirst/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Entente frugal, by Judy Hirst</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/11/entente-frugal-by-judy-hirst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Hirst</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Total Place]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention. So, with revenue funding for local government cut by 26%, all sorts of things that were once unimaginable suddenly look eminently doable. <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/11/entente-frugal-by-judy-hirst/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chequebook politics, by Judy Hirst</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/10/chequebook-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Hirst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's not just 'the size of the cheque we give people' that matters, Prime Minister David Cameron told us this week in Birmingham. But as the coalition is rapidly finding out, it helps... <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/10/chequebook-politics/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In a hole, by Judy Hirst</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/09/in-a-hole-by-judy-hirst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Hirst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfilled potholes. Crumbling schools and community centres. Is this an overly alarmist vision of the future state of public infrastructure? <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/09/in-a-hole-by-judy-hirst/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Life after death, by Judy Hirst</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/09/life-after-death-by-judy-hirst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Hirst</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Audit Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspection]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quangos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So what did the Audit Commission ever do for us? Not much, judging from the chorus yelling 'good riddance' as soon as Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced the watchdog's death. <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/09/life-after-death-by-judy-hirst/"></a>]]></description>
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