Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

I’m imposing a one-woman trade embargo on China

You should indulge every pointless acquisitive urge, as long as it’s not made in PRC

‘Everything from English designer dresses to the pine nuts for your pesto are coming from China’. Credit: adventtr 
issue 02 May 2020

Without making any efforts in that direction, I now know all about a certain telecom firm’s future business plans. My neighbours are working from home, loudly, with their kitchen windows open.

I want to scream: ‘I can’t turn my ears off, and I don’t have a mute function!’ Call me old-fashioned, but if they continue to corporate grandstand at the tops of their voices during laptop conference calls without specifically telling me that everything I’m hearing is off the record, then I’m treating them as primary source material.

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