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		<title>ALEXANDER BEWICK HAS MOVED</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[THIS BLOG HAS MOVED TO: Please click on the image to follow the blog there. All previous posts to this date will remain here. Posted in Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderbewick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4098407&amp;post=194&amp;subd=alexanderbewick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gambling on the box</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a worrying trend spreading virus-like on Spanish television. Having no Sky or similar facility, I don&#8217;t know if the trend is spreading abroad, or even if it has come to this country from elsewhere. As though there weren&#8217;t enough problem gambling in Spain, now we have every television channel and lots of radio [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderbewick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4098407&amp;post=186&amp;subd=alexanderbewick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorists create terror, that&#8217;s their &#8216;job&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrorists are back in the headlines. We&#8217;ve just heard of two attacks by the &#8216;Real&#8217; IRA in Northern Ireland. On the inner pages of a paper, we read about Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Israel, etc. etc. We even read about &#8216;non-terrorist&#8217; attacks in the US and in Germany, which by virtue of the madness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderbewick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4098407&amp;post=182&amp;subd=alexanderbewick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How rustic is your property?</title>
		<link>http://alexanderbewick.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/how-rustic-is-your-property/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent arrest of the Mayor of Alcaucín, Málaga, on corruption charges that include allowing building on terreno rústico, points the spotlight at a problem that is and has been recurrent certainly on the coasts if not all over Spain for a number of greedy years. Most of the buyers of holiday or retirement homes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderbewick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4098407&amp;post=177&amp;subd=alexanderbewick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rotten apples of all colours</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why my friend Prospero at JimenaPulse posted an item about corruption in the Axarquía region of Málaga, given that his blog is about the Campo de Gibraltar. The only connection I can think of is that similar charges are rife all over the area in which I live, too. Indeed, my other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderbewick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4098407&amp;post=171&amp;subd=alexanderbewick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting oneself in the foot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the scenario: Judge Baltasar Garzón initiates an investigation into systematic corruption in the Partido Popular (PP) of Madrid and other important cities. Arrests are made and heavy bails are set. Plenty of PP bigwigs are allegedly involved, some of whom are aforados, including a President of an Autonomous Region governed by the PP [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderbewick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4098407&amp;post=164&amp;subd=alexanderbewick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The need to be right</title>
		<link>http://alexanderbewick.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/the-need-to-be-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755), better known simply as Montesquieu, wrote: &#8220;I believe that the thing above all which ruined Pompey was the shame he felt to think that in having elevated Caesar the way he did, he had lacked foresight. He accustomed himself to the idea as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderbewick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4098407&amp;post=151&amp;subd=alexanderbewick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis? What crisis? A bit of perspective, please</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple of interesting calculations. The US is debating whether to hand over another $700 billion (let&#8217;s get those zeros right, we&#8217;re talking about $700,000,000,000) to the banks. Forget the $500 billion they&#8217;ve already handed over. The world is inhabited by 6,700,000,000 people, give or take a few million born while I&#8217;m writing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderbewick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4098407&amp;post=152&amp;subd=alexanderbewick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As drunk as a judge</title>
		<link>http://alexanderbewick.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/as-drunk-as-a-judge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story is out in Britain about Deputy District Judge Esther Cunningham (photo), who had to be escorted from court after kissing a solicitor, swearing at an usher and insulting a prosecutor while &#8216;fortified&#8217; with brandy. This from a disciplinary tribunal that &#8216;found it difficult to determine the correct sanction&#8217;, according to The Telegraph. Apparently, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderbewick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4098407&amp;post=141&amp;subd=alexanderbewick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a fine mess you didn&#8217;t get us into, Dubya</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Image by Sorel, Vanity Fair, 2008) George W. Bush is gone. There are those who might say he was gone for a long time, even for his entire presidency. Never has a US President had such a low rating as he leaves office, a notoriously low rating period for any presidency. But does he deserve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderbewick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4098407&amp;post=136&amp;subd=alexanderbewick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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