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		<title>Knife Crime: A critical analysis of the new moral panic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Media reportage has been saturated this year by a dialogue concerned almost exclusively with ameliorating the ‘problem of knife crime’ in modern Britain. This discussion, and its intrinsic dialectic between rehabilitative and incapacitatory responses, has proliferated largely unquestioned amongst academics and journalistic commentators alike.
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		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2008/08/03/knife-crime-a-critical-analysis/</link>
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		<title>The Accountability and Decentralisation of Charity.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An administrative and organisational philosophy to which I closely align myself is that of decentralisation. I think it almost without question that the efficacy of any agency can be vastly improved should the authority for decision-making be delegated to the lower tiers of an institution’s hierarchy.
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		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2008/05/05/decentralisation-and-charitable-accountability/</link>
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		<title>China Design Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[China has been a frequent site of interest and intrigue since I first studied it two years ago. Thinking of China still evokes imagery of old: a wasteful and disorganised agrarian economy and bucolic society. Yet the failure of The Great Leap Forward to produce an industrialised communist society in the 1950s triggered riots and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2008/03/23/china-design-now/</link>
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		<title>Nicholas Felton: An Annual Report</title>
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After waiting some while for it to be delivered from New York City, this weekend I opened with much excitement Nicholas Felton&#8217;s Personal Annual Report 2007. This constitutes the first piece of professional design work I have ever purchased and it falls squarely within the area of print design I love the most: infographics.
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		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2008/03/09/nicholas-felton-an-annual-report/</link>
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		<title>The curse of our success.</title>
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I have just finished reading the latest paper by the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education &#038; Training.  Part of Oxford University, the Nuffield Review commissions papers that closely examine the developments taking place in educational policy and is made up of commentators from a diverse range of government departments and agencies.
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		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2008/02/28/the-curse-of-our-success/</link>
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		<title>Have a cold? Go to bed.</title>
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As with policing, welfare between 1970 and 2000 was restructured in a manner that redefined the relationship between the public and the state. No more were we the passive welfare recipients of old; the nineties were an age of individual responsibility.
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		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2008/02/17/have-a-cold-go-to-bed/</link>
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		<title>Organ Donation upon Presumed Consent.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago Dr Evan Harris, Liberal Democrat MP and member of the British Medical Association, proposed that &#8216;presumed consent&#8217; was one of the key NHS reforms necessary in order to lessen the chronic shortage of donor organs within the health system.
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		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2008/01/15/organ-donation-upon-presumed-consent/</link>
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		<title>Infection Control within the NHS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was just last week, during a speech to Trafford general hospital concerning the history and future of the NHS, that David Cameron announced his party&#8217;s ideas for a more effective means of controlling the spread of infections.
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		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2008/01/06/infection-control-in-the-nhs/</link>
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		<title>The Queen&#8217;s Speech, 2007.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talk is widespread among politicians and reporters alike, much filled with a sense of disappointment at the failure of Brown&#8217;s great vision to materialise, a vision for &#8220;a Britain that realises all of the talents of all the people&#8221;.
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		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2007/11/08/the-queen%e2%80%99s-speech-2007/</link>
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		<title>Britain should use oil to discipline King Abdullah.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This last week it was not the familiar surroundings of British corporate capitalism and consumer culture I woke up to, but rather the oppressive totalitarian government of Oceania. Previously I had thought repressive media control to be the sole reserve of dystopian fictional texts and the nations from which they derive thematic reference; Soviet Russia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2007/11/04/britain-should-use-oil-to-discipline-king-abdullah/</link>
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		<title>A National Citizen Service.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having been a co-founder of the late Dialectic Organisation, which focussed on promoting groups across the UK that increased youth participation and interest in political processes and philanthropy, I would certainly never express harsh condemnation toward any politician striving toward the same goals. Thus, on the face of things, one would imagine that I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2007/09/09/a-national-citizen-service/</link>
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		<title>Cameron: Hold failing pupils back.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron seems to be releasing proposal after proposal, all interspersed with hard nosed and uncompromising language that paints a picture of a UK dystopian novelists can only dream of: &#8220;Vomit and broken glass in town centres, graffiti and litter and urine in the stairways of blocks of flats, fly-tipping in country lanes, aggression and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2007/09/02/cameron-hold-failing-pupils-back/</link>
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		<title>NHS opened to public enquiry.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since September of last year David Nicholson CBE has occupied the unenviable position of running the NHS and its £90 billion annual budget. Though his occupation may certainly be disagreeable, David&#8217;s approach toward the reform of health authorities certainly has not been.
Yesterday we have news that he is opening up the NHS to full public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2007/08/30/nhs-opened-to-public-enquiry/</link>
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		<title>David Cameron on Youth Crime.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a speech earlier this morning David Cameron called for tougher policing against youth crime and anti-social behaviour. In a first-rate demonstration of talking-without-thinking, Cameron has set out a series of new Conservative policies including the barring of young offenders from driving.
As usual much of his speech was filled with ambiguities and absurdities. Cameron boldly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2007/08/22/david-cameron-on-youth-crime/</link>
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		<title>Ipswich: A Unitary Authority.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After months of debate, Ipswich Borough Council may soon be granted unitary status and become fully responsible for all local authority functions within the boundaries of the town, independent of the County Council.
Ipswich&#8217;s bid for unitary status has been fraught with contention and denouncement by Suffolk County Council as a &#8220;waste of money&#8221;, costing an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.craigknott.co.uk/2007/07/26/ipswich-a-unitary-authority/</link>
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