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23 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
When Dominic Cummings first went to Oxford, he tried to impress his peers by rescuing a squirrel that was trapped in a bin on a day trip at Alton Towers. The attempt failed and the squirrel subsequently attacked him as he ran away pursued by it. These things can haunt a man.
In many respects, it set the pattern for his life.
Had to check I hadn't dreamed this Image
Many ways of interpreting it but I see the Squirrel as "control" and Doms attempts to take back control of it what happened next

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