Thursday 15 January 2009: On the day that Gordon Brown's confidante and de facto civil servant Shriti Vadera took over the front page of the DAILY MAIL ; when Yvette Cooper stated the apology to the victims of Equitable Life; the day when Geoff Hoon [3rd Runway, Heathrow] again proved that he was indeed a buffoon on the environment too, and the day when token trade minister [ex,] Digby Jones made a comment on the appalling state of the British civil service at the top end of Government....