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		<title>&#8220;My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rhianejones.com/2013/05/20/my-father-still-reads-the-dictionary-every-day-he-says-your-life-depends-on-your-power-to-master-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian E Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously I’m pleased, not to mention surprised, to see my book reviewed in a national newspaper that isn’t the Morning Star. Without wishing to sound ungracious, though, it is mildly exasperating to see the review uncritically reflect the idea that using Big Words makes the writing ‘over-done’ and ‘in thrall to the strangulated cult-studs vernacular’. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rhianejones.com&#038;blog=7072829&#038;post=1996&#038;subd=velvetcoalmine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 13:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian E Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sociologists who have stopped the time-machine and, with a good deal of conceptual huffing and puffing, have gone down to the engine room to look, tell us that nowhere at all have they been able to locate and classify a class. They can only find a multitude of people with different occupations, incomes, status-hierarchies, and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rhianejones.com&#038;blog=7072829&#038;post=1994&#038;subd=velvetcoalmine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian E Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A splendid post on Thatcher. A second splendid post on Thatcher. A third post, by me, on Thatcher&#8217;s funeral.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rhianejones.com&#038;blog=7072829&#038;post=1990&#038;subd=velvetcoalmine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NB</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian E Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Struck by several aspects of this (pretty old now) interview with the writer John Healy, but in particular by this, on the Amis/McEwan crowd: &#8220;Middle-class mafia&#8230; They can buy their way to a lifelong competitive advantage over the uneducated and poor.&#8221; I don&#8217;t disagree. However, one thing I was always aware of when growing up [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rhianejones.com&#038;blog=7072829&#038;post=1970&#038;subd=velvetcoalmine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Radical History: the London Corresponding Society vs the Privy Council, 1794</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian E Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long essay linked here is something I wrote years and years back, as an undergraduate, and I have finally now got round to finding somewhere useful for it to live online. It is set at a time, in the late 18th c. Britain made famous by Blackadder the Third, of a rise in popular [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rhianejones.com&#038;blog=7072829&#038;post=1934&#038;subd=velvetcoalmine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elsewhere.</title>
		<link>http://rhianejones.com/2013/01/28/elsewhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian E Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three things, then: 1. As a coda to my overthinking-it series of posts on Welsh history, identity, and the Manics, I did an interview with Studio Hiraeth on roughly the same themes; it is here. 2. The Quietus ran a piece from my upcoming rant about representations of class and gender in the 90s, featuring [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rhianejones.com&#038;blog=7072829&#038;post=1919&#038;subd=velvetcoalmine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little Empires V: Coming Up For Air</title>
		<link>http://rhianejones.com/2013/01/11/little-empires-v-wales-manics-politics-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian E Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fifth AND LAST in an overlong and overthinking-it series of posts on Wales, history, identity and the Manic Street Preachers, as filtered through the song &#8216;Ready for Drowning&#8217;. Part One: All Surface No Feeling Part Two: Fear Death By Water Part Three: Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes Part Four: [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rhianejones.com&#038;blog=7072829&#038;post=1601&#038;subd=velvetcoalmine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little Empires IV: Everybody Hates a Tourist</title>
		<link>http://rhianejones.com/2013/01/10/little-empires-iv-wales-manics-history-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian E Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fourth in an overlong and overthinking-it series of posts on Wales, history, identity and the Manic Street Preachers, as filtered through the song &#8216;Ready for Drowning&#8217;. Stay tuned with suitably low expectations. Part One: All Surface No Feeling Part Two: Fear Death By Water Part Three: Work is the Curse of the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rhianejones.com&#038;blog=7072829&#038;post=1658&#038;subd=velvetcoalmine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little Empires III: Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes</title>
		<link>http://rhianejones.com/2013/01/09/little-empires-iii-wales-manics-history-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian E Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third in an overlong and overthinking-it series of posts on Wales, history, identity and the Manic Street Preachers, as filtered through the song &#8216;Ready for Drowning&#8217;. Stay tuned with suitably low expectations. Part One: All Surface No Feeling Part Two: Fear Death By Water Part Three The furies are at home in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rhianejones.com&#038;blog=7072829&#038;post=1656&#038;subd=velvetcoalmine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little Empires II: Fear Death By Water</title>
		<link>http://rhianejones.com/2013/01/08/little-empires-ii-wales-manics-history-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian E Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second in an overlong and overthinking-it series of posts on Wales, history, identity and the Manic Street Preachers, as filtered through the song &#8216;Ready for Drowning&#8217;. Stay tuned with suitably low expectations. Part One: All Surface No Feeling Part Two In the Bible, God made it rain for 40 days and 40 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rhianejones.com&#038;blog=7072829&#038;post=1650&#038;subd=velvetcoalmine&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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