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      <title>My civil service colleagues told me to hide my Parkinson's diagnosis</title>
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      <dc:creator>Andrew McDonald</dc:creator>
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      <title>Let the public pay for political parties | Andrew McDonald</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Andrew McDonald</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-04-02T19:00:00Z</dc:date>
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