<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - Carl Gardner's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - Carl Gardner's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2010</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:31:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:56:28 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>The rich must be reined in | Vince Cable | The Guardian</title><description><![CDATA[The past decade has seen widening differences in income and wealth, which taxation and regulation have failed to address.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/18/3163476-the-rich-must-be-reined-in-vince-cable-the-guardian</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/18/3163476-the-rich-must-be-reined-in-vince-cable-the-guardian</guid><category>britain</category><category>economy</category><category>tax</category><category>politics</category><category>banks</category><category>banking</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>uk</category><category>wealth</category><category>equality</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:31:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Programmes and People: Moon, directed by Duncan Jones</title><description><![CDATA[Sam Rockwell plays Sam Bell, an astronaut living alone on the far side of the Moon working out his contract with Lunar Industries, a company that mines material to make alternative energy on earth. Sam&rsquo;s looking forward to coming home soon: his contract&rsquo;s nearly up.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/11/3143975-programmes-and-people-moon-directed-by-duncan-jones</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/11/3143975-programmes-and-people-moon-directed-by-duncan-jones</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>film</category><category>review</category><category>movies</category><category>cinema</category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:01:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/tn/CarlGardner/3143988.jpg" width="75" height="50" /></item><item><title>John Rentoul: It's all over for our Prime Minister</title><description><![CDATA[To be brutal, the next election is a good one to lose.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/30/2754952-john-rentoul-its-all-over-for-our-prime-minister</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/30/2754952-john-rentoul-its-all-over-for-our-prime-minister</guid><category>britain</category><category>politics</category><category>david-cameron</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>uk</category><category>gordon-brown</category><category>labour</category><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:07:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Polly Toynbee: This bold equality push is just what we needed. In 1997</title><description><![CDATA[A great regretful sadness hangs over this bill. As with the 50p tax rate, if only back in 1997 this had been an early beacon showing which way Labour meant to travel, instead of zigzagging, there would have been time to build on it, time to implement it well.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/30/2754940-polly-toynbee-this-bold-equality-push-is-just-what-we-needed-in-1997</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/30/2754940-polly-toynbee-this-bold-equality-push-is-just-what-we-needed-in-1997</guid><category>britain</category><category>politics</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>uk</category><category>labour</category><category>equality</category><category>harriet-harman</category><category>equality-bill</category><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:02:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sit down for 90 minutes, and decide he was right: The Damned United</title><description><![CDATA[A good film, this - a hugely entertaining and likeable translation to the screen of David Peace's novel The Damned Utd.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/02/2630679-sit-down-for-90-minutes-and-decide-he-was-right-the-damned-united</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/02/2630679-sit-down-for-90-minutes-and-decide-he-was-right-the-damned-united</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>football</category><category>film</category><category>movies</category><category>sport</category><category>cinema</category><category>leeds-united</category><category>michael-sheen</category><category>the-damned-united</category><category>brian-clough</category><pubDate>Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:32:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/tn/CarlGardner/2630701.jpg" width="75" height="50" /></item><item><title>John Harris: Our libraries are at risk - just when we need them most</title><description><![CDATA[there is strong evidence that the recession is making libraries more attractive. Between September and December 2008, new membership of libraries in Cumbria was up 39% on the same period the year before.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/02/2630503-john-harris-our-libraries-are-at-risk-just-when-we-need-them-most</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/02/2630503-john-harris-our-libraries-are-at-risk-just-when-we-need-them-most</guid><category>books</category><category>culture</category><category>arts</category><category>libraries</category><category>local-government</category><pubDate>Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:21:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Faith and Truth: Doubt, directed by John Patrick Shanley</title><description><![CDATA[I don't always go to films recommended by my mother - but she was right to tell me to see this. Sister Aloysius is principal of a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, just as Catholicism is trying to adapt to the modern world at Vatican II.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/02/2498083-faith-and-truth-doubt-directed-by-john-patrick-shanley</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/02/2498083-faith-and-truth-doubt-directed-by-john-patrick-shanley</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>film</category><category>catholic-church</category><category>movies</category><pubDate>Tue, 3 Mar 2009 01:36:42 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/tn/CarlGardner/2498089.jpg" width="75" height="50" /></item><item><title>Polly Toynbee: Don't blame the public sector for catching the fat cats' virus | Comment is free | The Guardian</title><description><![CDATA[If respect and prestige is measured only in money, then public sector leaders will demand it too.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/02/2498067-polly-toynbee-dont-blame-the-public-sector-for-catching-the-fat-cats-virus-comment-is-free-the-guardian</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/02/2498067-polly-toynbee-dont-blame-the-public-sector-for-catching-the-fat-cats-virus-comment-is-free-the-guardian</guid><category>britain</category><category>economy</category><category>politics</category><category>pay</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>uk</category><category>equality</category><category>public-sector</category><pubDate>Tue, 3 Mar 2009 01:25:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Is disowning a government the same as opposing it?</title><description><![CDATA[
Nothing more clearly distinguishes those beyond the pale than their willingness to use the secret, illegal and cowardly infliction of pain to terrify, cow and bend to their will helpless people being held without charge or trial or legal redress.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/25/2478030-is-disowning-a-government-the-same-as-opposing-it</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/25/2478030-is-disowning-a-government-the-same-as-opposing-it</guid><category>britain</category><category>politics</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>uk</category><category>gordon-brown</category><category>new-labour</category><category>bryan-gould</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:16:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bryan Gould: I disown this government</title><description><![CDATA[There have been of course many good and decent day-by-day achievements of this government. Across the whole range of political issues, I do not say that Britain did not do better under Labour than it would have done under most alternatives.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/24/2470704-bryan-gould-i-disown-this-government</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/24/2470704-bryan-gould-i-disown-this-government</guid><category>britain</category><category>politics</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>uk</category><category>gordon-brown</category><category>labour</category><category>new-labour</category><category>bryan-gould</category><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:37:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Geert Wilders: the Home Office's decision is unlawful</title><description><![CDATA[As has been widely reported, the Home Office has decided to exclude the controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders from the UK; here's the letter it sent him notifying the decision.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/11/2422466-geert-wilders-the-home-offices-decision-is-unlawful</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/11/2422466-geert-wilders-the-home-offices-decision-is-unlawful</guid><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>netherlands</category><category>europe</category><category>immigration</category><category>politics</category><category>european-union</category><category>islam</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>uk</category><category>geert-wilders</category><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:05:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The ridiculous game</title><description><![CDATA[On a day when the big story was the outrageous idea that banks bailed out by the taxpayer might be using public money to pay employees big bonuses, there was another, smaller story of mad greed and ambition from the stupid world of soccer.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/10/2416067-the-ridiculous-game?category=sports</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/10/2416067-the-ridiculous-game?category=sports</guid><category>football</category><category>sports</category><category>britain</category><category>soccer</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>uk</category><category>chelsea</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:13:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Philip Hensher: The BBC is too impartial to suffering - The Independent</title><description><![CDATA[The trouble is that the BBC's requirement for impartiality has enabled it, yet again, to do nothing. Yet that inactivity does not have a neutral result.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/26/2355992-philip-hensher-the-bbc-is-too-impartial-to-suffering-the-independent</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/26/2355992-philip-hensher-the-bbc-is-too-impartial-to-suffering-the-independent</guid><category>britain</category><category>israel</category><category>middle-east</category><category>bbc</category><category>television</category><category>gaza</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>world-news</category><category>uk</category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:47:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>What would you have done? The Reader, directed by Stephen Daldry</title><description><![CDATA[I was much more impressed by this film than I'd expected.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/23/2345976-what-would-you-have-done-the-reader-directed-by-stephen-daldry</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/23/2345976-what-would-you-have-done-the-reader-directed-by-stephen-daldry</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>film</category><category>movies</category><category>kate-winslet</category><category>cinema</category><category>the-reader</category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:25:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/tn/CarlGardner/2345985.jpg" width="75" height="50" /></item><item><title>Best supporting lips: Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood</title><description><![CDATA[If you like the idea of an unimaginative but well-made period drama in which a good woman fights for truth and justice against the odds - then you'll be interested in Changeling.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/03/2173975-best-supporting-lips-changeling-directed-by-clint-eastwood</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/03/2173975-best-supporting-lips-changeling-directed-by-clint-eastwood</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>film</category><category>clint-eastwood</category><category>angelina-jolie</category><category>movies</category><category>cinema</category><category>changeling</category><pubDate>Wed, 3 Dec 2008 21:14:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Shaken, not stirred: Quantum of Solace, directed by Marc Forster</title><description><![CDATA[I don't often get to preview films, but last Thursday night did manage to get myself invited to a pre-release showing of the new Bond film - not a posh event by any manner of means, but it did involve a free glass of wine.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/04/2071319-shaken-not-stirred-quantum-of-solace-directed-by-marc-forster</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/04/2071319-shaken-not-stirred-quantum-of-solace-directed-by-marc-forster</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>film</category><category>james-bond</category><category>movies</category><category>cinema</category><category>quantum-of-solace</category><pubDate>Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:55:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Labouring away</title><description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown's speech in Manchester yesterday afternoon was good enough to take the pressure off him for a few days; but it changed nothing fundamentally. It was, as Andrew Neil said on telly straight afterwards, Gordon Brown as we'd seen him before.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/24/1906212-labouring-away</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/24/1906212-labouring-away</guid><category>britain</category><category>politics</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>uk</category><category>gordon-brown</category><category>labour</category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:46:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/tn/CarlGardner/1906233.jpg" width="75" height="50" /></item><item><title>Simon Jenkins: This was not the speech of a leader about to be unseated</title><description><![CDATA[The Labour leader is a big beast who is not going to go quietly. Blair's constitutional reform ensured that any toppling would be bloody, and probably require a split in the party's upper echelon.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/24/1906198-simon-jenkins-this-was-not-the-speech-of-a-leader-about-to-be-unseated</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/24/1906198-simon-jenkins-this-was-not-the-speech-of-a-leader-about-to-be-unseated</guid><category>britain</category><category>politics</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>uk</category><category>gordon-brown</category><category>labour</category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:41:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>John Harris: Gordon Brown paid no heed to the radical conversations going on in Manchester this week</title><description><![CDATA[just as Karl Marx once claimed that he probably wasn't a Marxist, so one of the more mysterious things about Gordon Brown is that he hasn't turned out to be a Brownite, and the abiding impression of grim continuity has been underpinned by a depressing political trinity: market-wo&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/24/1906077-john-harris-gordon-brown-paid-no-heed-to-the-radical-conversations-going-on-in-manchester-this-week</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/24/1906077-john-harris-gordon-brown-paid-no-heed-to-the-radical-conversations-going-on-in-manchester-this-week</guid><category>britain</category><category>politics</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>uk</category><category>gordon-brown</category><category>labour</category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:26:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Patricia Hewitt: Labour's greatest hero is Barbara Castle</title><description><![CDATA[Barbara Castle should have been Labour's – and Britain's – first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery and absolutely committed to social justice.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Gardner]]></dc:creator><link>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/19/1885284-patricia-hewitt-labours-greatest-hero-is-barbara-castle</link><guid>http://CarlGardner.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/19/1885284-patricia-hewitt-labours-greatest-hero-is-barbara-castle</guid><category>britain</category><category>politics</category><category>labour-party</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>uk</category><category>patricia-hewitt</category><category>barbara-castle</category><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:47:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>