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	<title>The Welfare State We&#039;re In</title>
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	<description>Website of the book by James Bartholomew</description>
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		<title>The German employment miracle</title>
		<link>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/blog/2012/02/the-german-employment-miracle.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bartholomew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Germany used to have worse unemployment than Britain. Now it has better. Youth unemployment has fallen to 8% &#8211; half the level it was in 2005. And this despite the Eurozone crisis. Something happened in Germany. What was it? Elizabeth &#8230; <a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/blog/2012/02/the-german-employment-miracle.php">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A journalist in the (Euro)zone</title>
		<link>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/media-including-bbc-bias/2012/02/a-journalist-in-the-eurozone.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/media-including-bbc-bias/2012/02/a-journalist-in-the-eurozone.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bartholomew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media, including BBC bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ambrose Evans Pritchard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eurozone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People talk about sports stars playing particularly well when they are &#8216;in the zone&#8217;. I suggest that something similar can happen with journalists. But actually Ambrose Evans Pritchard has been &#8216;in the zone&#8217; for quite a few years now. His &#8230; <a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/media-including-bbc-bias/2012/02/a-journalist-in-the-eurozone.php">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Britain &#8211; the angry country</title>
		<link>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/politics/2012/02/britain-the-angry-country.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bartholomew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media, including BBC bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Off the subject]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Terry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Returning to Britain after two weeks on a trip to Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, I was struck by how the some of the stories making the headlines were the same as when  I left. Controversy still raged over the &#8230; <a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/politics/2012/02/britain-the-angry-country.php">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How would you like to know how long you will wait in the Emergency Department?</title>
		<link>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/nhs/2012/02/how-would-you-like-to-know-how-long-you-will-wait-in-the-emergency-department.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/nhs/2012/02/how-would-you-like-to-know-how-long-you-will-wait-in-the-emergency-department.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bartholomew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare and the NHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emergency care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khoo Teck Puat Hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you go to an Emergency Department of a hospital, how would you like to know how long you are going to have to wait before a doctor sees you? In Singapore, I visited the Khoo Teck Puat hospital &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/nhs/2012/02/how-would-you-like-to-know-how-long-you-will-wait-in-the-emergency-department.php">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Compulsory saving the Singapore, Australian and Chilean way</title>
		<link>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/pensions/2012/02/compulsory-saving-the-singapore-australian-and-chilean-way.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/pensions/2012/02/compulsory-saving-the-singapore-australian-and-chilean-way.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bartholomew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pensions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work on the new book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Super']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pensions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research trips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superannuation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am the end of a trip taking nearly two weeks, visiting Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. The most notable interview I had in Singapore was with the deputy prime minister and minister of finance, Tharman  Shanmugaratnam. We talked about many &#8230; <a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/pensions/2012/02/compulsory-saving-the-singapore-australian-and-chilean-way.php">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Private hospitals can do emergency care</title>
		<link>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/nhs/2012/01/private-hospitals-can-do-emergency-care.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/nhs/2012/01/private-hospitals-can-do-emergency-care.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bartholomew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare and the NHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emergency care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Britain it is sometimes said, &#8220;Oh well, it&#8217;s true that you can get good care in a private hospital but if it comes to an emergency, then you need to go to an NHS hospital&#8221; or perhaps, &#8220;private hospitals &#8230; <a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/nhs/2012/01/private-hospitals-can-do-emergency-care.php">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>No politician will tell people the truth. No doctor is allowed to.</title>
		<link>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/nhs/2012/01/no-politician-will-tell-people-the-truth-no-doctor-is-allowed-to.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/nhs/2012/01/no-politician-will-tell-people-the-truth-no-doctor-is-allowed-to.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bartholomew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare and the NHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow transplants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unnecessary deaths]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/?p=1469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently spoken to an Australian doctor who told me things that are going on in Australian medicine and then told me that if it were revealed that he had told me these things,  he could be sacked. Since &#8230; <a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/nhs/2012/01/no-politician-will-tell-people-the-truth-no-doctor-is-allowed-to.php">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Paying a backhander to get a sick note</title>
		<link>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/nhs/2012/01/paying-a-backhander-to-get-a-sick-note.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/nhs/2012/01/paying-a-backhander-to-get-a-sick-note.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bartholomew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare and the NHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welfare benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backhander]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in Poland last month, someone there remarked how Poland had been one of the &#8216;disability capitals&#8217; of Europe. The numbers of people claiming to be unable to work through illness were apparently enormous. Today I had a &#8230; <a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/nhs/2012/01/paying-a-backhander-to-get-a-sick-note.php">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A notice board of photos of children who should get special attention</title>
		<link>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/education/2012/01/a-notice-board-of-photos-of-children-who-should-get-special-attention.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/education/2012/01/a-notice-board-of-photos-of-children-who-should-get-special-attention.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bartholomew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GCSE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFSTED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[targets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A former teacher gave me an insight last night about how schools react to targets. One of the key targets in Britain is to get as many children as possible obtaining GCSE passes rated at between A and C. What &#8230; <a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/education/2012/01/a-notice-board-of-photos-of-children-who-should-get-special-attention.php">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Discriminating against mothers who want to stay at home and look after their children</title>
		<link>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/parenting/2012/01/discriminating-against-mothers-who-want-to-stay-at-home-and-look-after-her-children.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/parenting/2012/01/discriminating-against-mothers-who-want-to-stay-at-home-and-look-after-her-children.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bartholomew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child benefit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stay-at-home mothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was some controversy yesterday over the British Government&#8217;s intention to make some change to its removal of child benefit from higher rate taxpayers. This measure was manifestly unfair because it meant the benefit would be paid to a couple &#8230; <a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/parenting/2012/01/discriminating-against-mothers-who-want-to-stay-at-home-and-look-after-her-children.php">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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