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17 January 2022
Back in 1939, the story goes, a member of the MCC at Lord’s saw a worker removing the bust of cricketer W.G. Grace on display there, to put it in safe storage. Turning to a colleague he said, “Good Lord! This means war.”
In March 2020, when the Tokyo Olympics were cancelled, we said in effect, “Good Lord! This means the end of normality.”
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