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Fifteen minutes into the meeting my former colleague’s eyelids had become heavy. Soon after, they drooped, fluttered, then gently closed. Yet despite the circle of smirking faces around the conference room table, nobody said a word.
The elephant in the room could have plunged his trunk into the coffee and sat his big grey backside down on the chocolate digestives and still, with consummate Englishness, there would have just been an awkward silence.
