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Listening to Geoff Hoon on the Today programme this morning, having been sacked from his advisory position in NATO and thrown out of the Labour Party for being caught seeking a 3000 GBP a day job with a lobbying form, he insisted he was "trying to demonstrate my knowledge and experience, background in a particular sector".
Is this the same Geoffrey Hoon?
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Britain: What A State e-Book. Free preview. [Read more]
How to protect your data (from us) [Read more]
Peril Level Alert advice in light of Global Alarm Attitude [Read more]
New DoSS Guide: New Labour, New Pregnancy [Read more]
HMRC Security Breach: What You Can Do to Protect Yourself From Us [Read more]
Announcing the Little Black Book of Red Tape [Read more]
Rules of the Moment: 16-17. Horses. [Read more]
This is Not the Highway Code. [Read more]
The Myway Code Rule of the Moment: 115. Parking Meters [Read more]
Smoke signals to other road users [Read more]
The Myway Code Rule of the Moment: 97-98. Box Junctions [Read more]
Rule of the Moment: 24. Herding Cattle at Night. [Read more]
Myway Code Replaces the Highway Code [Read more]
TV: A Licence to Bill. [Read more]
The End of the Line. [Read more]
"It may take 7-14 days to put out a fire". [Read more]
Frequently Asked FAQs [Read more]
Introducing the Red Tape Recorder [Read more]
Introducing the Red Tape Recorder [Read more]
Ministry of Truth and Other Information Takes Over Education [Read more]
Identity Cards: Part 3 - Biometric data. [Read more]
Your Money and Your Life - Part 2 [Read more]
The Notwork Rail guide to your railway station. [Read more]
"Keep All Your Old Skin in a Jar", Says Biometric Fraud Tsar. [Read more]
About Your Habitat - Identity Card Application Part 6 [Read more]
Highway Code or Myway Code? [Read more]
New magazine goes on sale to encourage "self-expression" [Read more]
K-ID Cards. [Read more]
Child Identity Theft Proposals Outlined [Read more]
You'll be laughing on the other side of your face. [Read more]
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