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		<title>Saving the planet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toxic Bio-fuels It&#8217;s great being old or rather what I would have thought of as old when in my teens and twenties. My brother&#8217;s daughter is getting married so it&#8217;s over to Germany for the family gathering and as bro&#8217;s school term hasn&#8217;t finished yet, we are invited to an Open day. Germany is more keen generally on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/07/saving-the-planet/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s peacock, tomorrow&#8217;s feather duster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some jokes never go out of fashion: why is abbreviation such a long word? why is there an S in lisp? and why is there only ONE Monopoly Commission? While the Monopolies &#38; Mergers Commission is now http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/ the Royal Commission on Long-term Care for the Elderly http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4008520  which reported back in 1999 is about to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/07/todays-peacock-tomorrows-feather-duster/</link>
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		<title>And now for some good news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A major turn-off for people investing in private pensions, is having to buy an annuity and there are two good reasons behind this. Firstly, many people don&#8217;t know what an annuity is and the pre-retirement seminars I do as a www.pensionsadvisoryrservice,org.uk volunteer are being rewritten to address this. Another reason is that annuity rates are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/07/and-now-for-some-good-news/</link>
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		<title>Body Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Worst School in Britain Suddenly there&#8217;s a rush with three www.thepensionsadvisoryservice.org.uk pre-retirement presentations in two days in Hackney. Second day finds me at http://www.mossbourne.hackney.sch.uk/ on Hackney Downs a brand new academy on the site of the former Hackney Downs School. The latter was originally founded in 1876 by one of the City of London&#8217;s Livery Companies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad news travels fast?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The day starts badly&#8230; Friday comes, and all set up to work from home saving two hours of commuting, when the phone rings. It&#8217;s the office &#8211; have I read METRO magazine? Since you only get this free mag when travelling in on bus or tube, answer is negative. Was Gena a client of yours? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/07/bad-news-travels-fast/</link>
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		<title>Up before the Beak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things is quiet with the football, Wimbledon and occasionally warm weather. Nice then to have a change from emergency Budget changes and my next Foreign Legion reading with a compact memoir of a magistrate. Bow Street Beak by Ronnie Bartle is a rare look at the judges side of the bench or magistrates court in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/06/up-before-the-beak/</link>
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		<title>I nearly fell off my chair!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One would think a long established insurance group with US$362 billion (£222 billion) assets under management would know which way the markets are going, but even the best of us make mistakes it seems and I am not talking about football or goalkeeping. A long standing client wanted to provide a sum for his children so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/06/i-nearly-fell-off-my-chair/</link>
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		<title>Suffer the little children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent Childcare scandals prompt the inevitable call for more rules but the recent Disptaches programme on Child Protection clearly shows what too much regulation can do. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/  Each new social worker scandal prompts more reviews and rules with the obvious effect that more time is spent on paperwork in the office leaving less time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/06/suffer-the-little-children/</link>
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		<title>James Bond? Just a piece of nonsense I dreamed up&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the opposite of writers&#8217; block? Should I stick to pensions, finance etc or why not write about spies? For a second I reach for my calculator but with the whole blogosphere available, go for both. Slightly surprised that I have not had any panicky messages from Higher Rate Income Tax payers (see last blog) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/06/james-bond-just-a-piece-of-nonsense-i-dreamed-up/</link>
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		<title>The money is in bank! Now what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With my niche in financial planning essentially dealing with the end of people&#8217;s lives i.e. those who are terminally/seriously ill or need advice when they are starting to have to pay for care, perhaps it is no surprise that a group that shows the future, makes a nice counter-balance. Solicitors Simmons &#38; Simmons again host [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/05/the-money-is-in-bank-now-what/</link>
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