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	<title>A New Challenger Appears</title>
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	<description>Rob Fahey on games, media, journalism and politics.</description>
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		<title>vote, for a change.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creative Commons licensed image from Jaime Pérez on flickr Tomorrow, May 6th, is election day. Finally, the debates, the arguments, the manifestoes, the smears, the Twitter backlash, the floods of Facebook links, the increasingly desperate tabloid front pages; they all collapse from uneasily co-existing probabilities into concrete certainty, as the ballot boxes are opened and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.challengerappears.com/blog/2010/05/vote-for-a-change/</link>
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		<title>deeply outdated links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been ignoring this blog, of late. Apologies to my handful of subscribers. Fear not &#8211; exams are upon me, and the opportunities for procrastination presented by blogging are too delectable to pass up upon. With that in mind, I&#8217;m working on a fairly mammoth post about the upcoming election, proportional representation, and what&#8217;s truly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.challengerappears.com/blog/2010/04/deeply-outdated-links/</link>
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		<title>connection failure: mandelson takes on the internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creative Commons licensed image from nrkbeta on flickr In recent weeks, there has been some fairly solid grassroots inertia gathering behind a campaign against new legislation being proposed by Lord Mandelson, the business secretary. The gist of the legislation is straightforward &#8211; it proposes that individuals accused of illegal downloading should, after a certain number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.challengerappears.com/blog/2009/09/connection-failure-mandelson-takes-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>please don&#8217;t feed the fascists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creative Commons licensed image from akanekal on flickr We woke up on Monday in a country that was a little less pleasant than it was on Sunday. The election of two BNP MEPs &#8211; one in Yorkshire and the Humber, one in the North West constituency &#8211; seems to confirm the dire predictions that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.challengerappears.com/blog/2009/06/please-dont-feed-the-fascists/</link>
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		<title>journalism swallowed by a black hole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just too delicious (and simultaneously horrifying) not to post. It&#8217;s the Daily Star&#8217;s front page reporting on the Air France flight which crashed into the Atlantic this week. Let&#8217;s consider a couple of things briefly&#8230; Firstly, the &#8220;new Bermuda Triangle&#8221; isn&#8217;t actually near Bermuda, and doesn&#8217;t really have a shape given that it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.challengerappears.com/blog/2009/06/journalism-swallowed-by-a-black-hole/</link>
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		<title>looking back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written a pair of retrospective pieces in the past few weeks, tying up two stories which I&#8217;ve been covering pretty much since the start of my writing career. I don&#8217;t expect that either of these stories is actually dead and buried now, but they certainly seem to have reached conclusions of a sort. First [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.challengerappears.com/blog/2009/05/looking-back/</link>
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		<title>war games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have caught the controversy over Konami&#8217;s new Iraq war game, Six Days in Fallujah, last week. In a nutshell, the Daily Mail decided that this was a horrible insult to everyone who has ever even heard of Iraq, rang up some of the usual suspects and ran a chest-beating &#8220;evil game makers make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.challengerappears.com/blog/2009/04/war-games/</link>
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		<title>death in the city</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love my city. The breadth and depth of my affection for London has only grown over the years that I have lived here, and friends are often amused by my enthusiastic outbursts about the city or its history. I often succumb to a strange urge to play tour guide, dragging anyone who&#8217;ll humour me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.challengerappears.com/blog/2009/04/death-in-the-city/</link>
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		<title>as i recall, it was a horror film</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been even more sporadic than usual in my updates here of late. I&#8217;m blaming my workload; it turns out that doing a university course which everyone and his dog warned me was &#8220;really really tough&#8221; at the same time as trying to earn a living like a proper person is actually quite hard. Who&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.challengerappears.com/blog/2009/03/as-i-recall-it-was-a-horror-film/</link>
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		<title>news in brief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, not so much &#8220;news&#8221; as a collection of links illustrating what I&#8217;ve been up to recently. I never mentioned that Episode 3 of Stage Clear went live last week, marking three whole weeks of actually obeying the schedule we set ourselves. I&#8217;m off out to record another this evening, which will bring us to [...]]]></description>
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