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Handlebar moustache discrimination – time for a new law

There are all sorts of discrimination, but surely the strangest is handlebar moustache discrimination. Beards, yes, but moustaches? What seems even more extraordinary is that the issue has been raised in connection with an airline. Just sixty-odd years ago, a handlebar moustache was not only de rigeur in Air Forces throughout the British Empire, but practically compulsory.

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