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Article: She has the muscular gait, if not the looks, of a boxer dog; Yesterday in Parliament.
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- Daily Mail (London)
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- November 7, 2001
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Byline: QUENTIN LETTS
SINECURE, n., office without duties attached, esp. benefice without cure of souls. The word can also be applied to various itsy- bitsy Government ministries, several of which were on parade yesterday.
In they came, a display of twinkly baubles: Edinburgh's Advocate General, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department, the lumbering number two in the almost dormant Scotland Office.
These are non-onerous posts, which provide incumbents with a plumpish cushion and a ministerial Mondeo.
The money is handy, too.
The Advocate General, for instance, scoops [pound]109,208 in public money. For ...