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Colonel Mustard breaks free of his invisible shackles

No more easy pickings in the West for China

30 May 2020

9:00 AM

30 May 2020

9:00 AM

Life’s cut-through lessons arrive unpredictably. I once volunteered at a community body with an elderly couple, me in my thirties, they in their seventies; she was tiny and commanding, he was exactly like Colonel Mustard in the Cluedo boardgame – handlebar moustache, well-groomed, military bearing – albeit slightly dull. He adored her and was the satellite to her sun.

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