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    <title>PM</title>
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    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2006-08-17:/blogs/pm/51</id>
    <updated>2009-11-21T05:41:18Z</updated>
    <subtitle>The blog for the afternoon news and current affairs programme presented by Eddie Mair.</subtitle>
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    <title>Psssst.</title>
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    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.168202</id>


    <published>2009-11-21T05:34:36Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-21T05:41:18Z</updated>


    <summary>Good morning. Flooding still dominates the news, and it&apos;s good to hear that the Large Hadron Collider is working again. But never mind all that. Do you want to know a secret? Our listeners have told us several. iPM is...</summary>
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        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>Good morning. Flooding still dominates the news, and it's good to hear that the Large Hadron Collider is working again.</p>

<p>But never mind all that. Do you want to know a secret? Our listeners have told us several. </p>

<p>iPM is on at 0545 on Radio 4, or you can podcast us <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ipm/">here</a>.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Flooding information. </title>
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    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.168049</id>


    <published>2009-11-20T17:01:15Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T17:08:21Z</updated>


    <summary>The Environment Agency covers England and Wales. There&apos;s the Scottish Environment Protecting Agency. This is where you&apos;ll find the Northern Ireland Environment Agency. The telephone number for the Floodline service for England Wales and Scotland is 0845 988 11 88....</summary>
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        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/">Environment Agency</a> covers England and Wales.</p>

<p>There's the <a href="http://www.sepa.org.uk/">Scottish Environment Protecting Agency</a>.</p>

<p>This is where you'll find the <a href="http://www.ni-environment.gov.uk/">Northern Ireland Environment Agency</a>.</p>

<p>The telephone number for the Floodline service for England Wales and Scotland is 0845 988 11 88.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>PM Glass Box. </title>
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    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167708</id>


    <published>2009-11-20T17:00:50Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T17:07:08Z</updated>


    <summary>In a real glass box every evening at 18.00, the PM production team meets to discuss the programme that&apos;s just finished. You&apos;re encouraged to do so here in this virtual glass box....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
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        <category term="PM Glass Box" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/">
        <![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="glasstree.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/glasstree.JPG" width="336" height="447" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span>In a real glass box every evening at 18.00, the PM production team meets to discuss the programme that's just finished. You're encouraged to do so here in this virtual glass box. </p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>The Beach.</title>
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    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167704</id>


    <published>2009-11-20T08:00:58Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-19T12:36:05Z</updated>


    <summary></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
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        <category term="Beach" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    
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        <![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="beach5.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/beach5.JPG" width="448" height="300" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span></p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>AM Glass Box.</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/11/am_glass_box_2.shtml" />
    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167709</id>


    <published>2009-11-20T08:00:11Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-19T12:44:00Z</updated>


    <summary> You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight. Perhaps a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still,...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
    </author>
    
        <category term="AM Glass Box" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/">
        <![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="glasssunrise1.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/glasssunrise1.JPG" width="448" height="336" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span> You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.</p>

<p>Perhaps a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.</p>

<p>The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box?</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>The PM Glass Box.</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/11/the_pm_glass_box_102.shtml" />
    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167702</id>


    <published>2009-11-19T17:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-19T12:33:01Z</updated>


    <summary>In a real glass box every evening at 18.00, the PM production team meets to discuss the programme that&apos;s just finished. You&apos;re encouraged to do so here in this virtual glass box. Tonight&apos;s editor Dan Mitchell will read the comments...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
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        <category term="PM Glass Box" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/">
        <![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="glassbarom.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/glassbarom.JPG" width="336" height="448" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span>In a real glass box every evening at 18.00, the PM production team meets to discuss the programme that's just finished. You're encouraged to do so here in this virtual glass box. Tonight's editor Dan Mitchell will read the comments and may well add his own. </p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Autumn. </title>
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    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167712</id>


    <published>2009-11-19T12:44:44Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-19T13:46:55Z</updated>


    <summary> From Gill sent on October 20....</summary>
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        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/">
        <![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="autumn15.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/autumn15.JPG" width="425" height="336" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span></p>

<p>From Gill sent on October 20.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>The AM Glass Box </title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/11/the_am_glass_box_115.shtml" />
    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167616</id>


    <published>2009-11-19T06:44:04Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-19T06:44:23Z</updated>


    <summary> You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight. Perhaps a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still,...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
    </author>
    
        <category term="AM Glass Box" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/">
        <![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="glasssunrise1.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/glasssunrise1.JPG" width="448" height="336" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span> You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.</p>

<p>Perhaps a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.</p>

<p>The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box?</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Nils in Malawi.</title>
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    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167393</id>


    <published>2009-11-18T11:30:34Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-18T11:36:56Z</updated>


    <summary>More from Nils on the programme tonight: Linda is a nine year old Malawian girl who walks six miles each morning to get to school - we will be telling her story tonight. Nils talking to the headteacher of a...</summary>
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        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>More from Nils on the programme tonight:</p>

<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="nw1.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/nw1.JPG" width="600" height="400" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span><br />
Linda is a nine year old Malawian girl who walks six miles each morning to get to school - we will be telling her story tonight.</p>

<p></p>

<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="nw2.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/nw2.JPG" width="600" height="400" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span><br />
Nils talking to the headteacher of a village school in Malawi - we will be hearing how he teaches classes of a hundred pupils at a time.</p>

<p></p>

<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="nw3.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/nw3.JPG" width="600" height="400" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span><br />
Break time at a village school in Malawi.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>The PM Glass Box.</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/11/the_pm_glass_box_101.shtml" />
    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167388</id>


    <published>2009-11-18T11:27:55Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-18T11:29:17Z</updated>


    <summary>In a real glass box every evening at 18.00, the PM production team meets to discuss the programme that&apos;s just finished. You&apos;re encouraged to do so here in this virtual glass box. Tonight&apos;s editor Ryan Dilley will read the comments...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
    </author>
    
        <category term="PM Glass Box" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/">
        <![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="glassbus.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/glassbus.JPG" width="480" height="320" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span>In a real glass box every evening at 18.00, the PM production team meets to discuss the programme that's just finished. You're encouraged to do so here in this virtual glass box. Tonight's editor Ryan Dilley will read the comments and may well add his own. </p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>The AM Glass Box </title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/11/the_am_glass_box_114.shtml" />
    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167327</id>


    <published>2009-11-18T05:32:44Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-18T05:33:01Z</updated>


    <summary> You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight. Perhaps a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still,...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
    </author>
    
        <category term="AM Glass Box" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/">
        <![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="glasssunrise1.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/glasssunrise1.JPG" width="448" height="336" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span> You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.</p>

<p>Perhaps a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.</p>

<p>The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box?</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Thought for the Day.</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/11/thought_for_the_day.shtml" />
    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167175</id>


    <published>2009-11-17T17:01:35Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-17T17:04:38Z</updated>


    <summary>Media Guardian reports that the BBC Trust has &quot;rejected calls for non-religious contributors to be allowed on Radio 4&apos;s Thought for the Day.&quot; We&apos;ll talk more about this on the programme tonight. As Media Guardian notes, iPM, the programme that...</summary>
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        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/17/bbc-thought-for-the-day">Media Guardian</a> reports that the BBC Trust has "rejected calls for non-religious contributors to be allowed on Radio 4's Thought for the Day."</p>

<p>We'll talk more about this on the programme tonight. As Media Guardian notes, iPM, the programme that starts with its listeners, talked about this in January. </p>

<p>You can hear the full 22 minute discussion between the Rev. Prof Alister McGrath and Prof AC Grayling <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2009/01/thought_for_the_day_uncut.shtml">here</a>.</p>

<p>Read what the Radio 4 Controller wrote (and listener reactions) <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2009/01/thought_for_the_day_a_genuinel.shtml?page=2">here</a>.</p>

<p>And if you're really keen there's even more <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2009/07/thought_for_the_day_reconsider.shtml">here</a>.</p>

<p>The BBC Trust ruling is <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press_releases/november/tftd.shtml">here</a>.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Hugh Sykes in Afghanistan.  </title>
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    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167165</id>


    <published>2009-11-17T17:00:03Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-17T17:04:17Z</updated>


    <summary>&quot;I went to Paghman village near Kabul. The message from there pretty much matches what David Milliband has been saying - that there must be a political strategy there, not just a military one. Though, in Paghman they put it...</summary>
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        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>"I went to Paghman village near Kabul. The message from there pretty much matches what David Milliband has been saying - that there must be a political strategy there, not just a military one. Though, in Paghman they put it rather more strongly: "British and American troops are wasting their lives here"....</p>

<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="pag1.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/pag1.JPG" width="640" height="463" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span><br />
First snow of winter on Paghman mountain.</p>

<p></p>

<p><br />
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Paghman bazaar.</p>

<p></p>

<p><br />
<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="pag3.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/pag3.JPG" width="640" height="462" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span><br />
Mohammed Shafi's bakery.<br />
And here he is inside, with his team and his oven:<br />
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<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="pag5.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/pag5.JPG" width="640" height="462" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span></p>

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Marbles</p>

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<p><br />
<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="pag7.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/pag7.JPG" width="640" height="463" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span><br />
13 year old Hijrat, marble champion of Paghman, lining up a shot</p>

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<p><br />
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Hijrat and his friends.</p>

<p></p>

<p><br />
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Paghman elder</p>

<p></p>

<p><br />
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Mujahed Hotel</p>

<p></p>

<p><br />
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Retired Mujaheddin fighter Mohammed Rahim, with photographs of his two brothers who were killed by Red Army troops. Mohammed told me he and his men had shot down four Soviet helicopters near the village.</p>

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A Paghman lane. Cold clean mountain air.</p>

<p></p>

<p></p>

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Paghman women."</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>The PM Glass Box.</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/11/the_pm_glass_box_100.shtml" />
    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167134</id>


    <published>2009-11-17T15:03:46Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-17T15:14:19Z</updated>


    <summary>In a real glass box every evening at 18.00, the PM production team meets to discuss the programme that&apos;s just finished. You&apos;re encouraged to do so here in this virtual glass box. Tonight&apos;s editor Dan Mitchell will read the comments...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="glasswellies.JPG" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/glasswellies.JPG" width="336" height="377" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span>In a real glass box every evening at 18.00, the PM production team meets to discuss the programme that's just finished. You're encouraged to do so here in this virtual glass box. Tonight's editor Dan Mitchell will read the comments and may well add his own. </p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Alex Stubb.</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/11/alex_stubb.shtml" />
    <id>tag:www.bbc.co.uk,2009:/blogs/pm//51.167163</id>


    <published>2009-11-17T13:53:45Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-17T14:32:05Z</updated>


    <summary> He&apos;s Finland&apos;s Foreign Minister and he&apos;s on PM tonight...talking about his country&apos;s troop commitment in Afghanistan. He has his own blog you know....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Eddie Mair</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="alexstubb.jpg" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/alexstubb.jpg" width="159" height="448" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span> He's Finland's Foreign Minister and he's on PM tonight...talking about his country's troop commitment in Afghanistan. He has his own <a href="http://www.alexstubb.com/">blog</a> you know.</p>]]>
        
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