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Hypocrisy wasn't Matt Hancock's worst offence

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Jun 29, 2021
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Fighting Animals as Allegory of the Combat between Virtue and Vice; Pieter Boel, c1650-1667

Following Matt Hancock’s resignation as Britain’s Health Secretary this week, attention has turned to the mystery of why his ministerial office CCTV camera was turned away from pointing at the insecure balcony and turned instead towards the office door, in front o…

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