One Man's Death Is Another Man's Job

Steel, Mark, The Independent (London, England)

Passion and enthusiasm don't come easy to New Labour. Which may be why no human being has ever uttered the sentence: "The people who really inspire me are Che Guevara and Margaret Beckett." I would imagine that Mrs Alistair Darling knows her husband is reaching the peak of sexual arousal when he mutters: "I will respond to that in a statement this afternoon but it would be inopportune to comment any earlier."

So it's encouraging to see Geoff Hoon say: "I am completely thrilled." The reason he's thrilled is that the Eurofighter was on display at the Farnborough Air Show, where it carried out "spectacular manoeuvres", proving its potential as a bombing machine. Which is …

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