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	<title>Clive Limpkin</title>
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	<description>Photography, Writing &#38; Diary</description>
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		<title>Christmas Prezzie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I bought an iPhone cover from an assistant at White City’s Apple Store where we small talked briefly, wished each other well and I drove home. He emailed me next day after seeing my name on the receipt and looking at the photographs on my website, writing…….. ‘As the cultural and historical zeitgeist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clivelimpkin.com/2011/12/27/christmas-prezzie/</link>
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		<title>Keep off the Crass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With only twenty one days to go, Andrew Robathan MP is a shoo-in for the Crassest Comment of the Year title when comparing the Arctic Convoy veterans’ claim for an Arctic Star medal with authoritarian regimes such as North Korea, Libya and Iraq which “throw around” medals. “We have taken the view in this country, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clivelimpkin.com/2011/12/10/keep-off-the-crass/</link>
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		<title>Quivering Lips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They’ve just re-buried Frank Wild beside Ernest Shackleton in South Georgia, who was Shackleton&#8217;s right hand man through all the Antarctic heroics. When their boat was crushed by pack ice and Shackleton began his epic rescue mission, he left Wild behind with twenty one crewmen who survived on penguin, seal and seaweed for four months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clivelimpkin.com/2011/12/06/quivering-lips/</link>
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		<title>Straightening Spaghetti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Leveson Inquiry current witnesses remain grotesquely watchable, as if some dark force fries their moral compass as they take the stand. Yesterday, Paul McMullan, the former deputy features editor of the NoW described the hacking of Milly Dowler’s mobile as an “honourable” act, a “perfectably acceptable tool…&#8230;for the good of our readers, for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clivelimpkin.com/2011/11/30/1159/</link>
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		<title>Photographer Unknown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phaidon Press have followed up their best-selling brick ‘Century’, with a smaller brick called &#8216;Decade,&#8217; billed correctly as &#8217;500 painstakingly selected photographs, an extraordinary photographic history of the first decade of the twenty-first century.&#8217; Yes, but who painstakingly took these photographs? There&#8217;s no mention in the first eleven pages of &#8216;thematic essays&#8217; covering everything but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clivelimpkin.com/2011/11/28/photographer-unknown/</link>
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		<title>Danish Blue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Done it! We’ve finally reached the end of ‘The Killing.’ Who would have thought that twenty hours of a throat-slitting, gloom-laden Danish whodunit television series set in a turgid deserted urban landscape could be so gripping, but such is the writing and acting you abandon plausibility to a plot that has more red herrings than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clivelimpkin.com/2011/11/24/danish-blue/</link>
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		<title>The Departed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mourners follow the hearse in a Mercedes thoughtfully equipped with three boxes of Kleenex. Chiswick, London. 22/11/11]]></description>
		<link>http://clivelimpkin.com/2011/11/24/the-departed/</link>
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		<title>The Murdoch Mindset</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Murdoch’s current selective outpourings is at odds with his father who during my years at The Sun was kind enough to share his philosophy on life with me. Well, only once actually &#8211; it was early on a Monday morning in the Main Hall as he shouted, “You’ll spend the rest of your life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clivelimpkin.com/2011/11/11/the-murdoch-mindset/</link>
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		<title>Lifetime Achievement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs’ sister Mona Simpson, commenting on his demise, says, “Death didn’t happen to Steve, he achieved it,” which must surely cap all other outpourings that were about to canonize the man till the timely arrival of Walter Isaacson’s biography which reveals a seriously flawed genius who combined aesthetics, science, showbiz, bizbiz and the trick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clivelimpkin.com/2011/11/01/lifetime-achievement/</link>
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		<title>Miracles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Atheists seeking miracles only have to watch David Attenborough where Nature throws in a jaw-dropper every episode. If his programmes have a fault – and they don’t – it’s that the public’s short attention span forces such miracles to be dealt with in seconds. Last night’s throwaway whammo was the bombardier beetle which when disturbed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clivelimpkin.com/2011/10/26/miracles/</link>
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