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Police are using sites such as GEDMatch.com to revive historic crime investigations.
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A new poem by Blake Morrison.
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In a way, Lindgren is a metaphor for Sweden itself.
Rather than falling in with the pretentious, dungeons and dragons world of early 1970s “progressive” rock, Can did their own thing.
Joe Penhall’s new play features a dispute over songwriting credits.
On a website “filled with the detritus and ephemera of great artists”, there’s a wonderful hunk of little-heard pieces for radio.
Plus: the return of The Bridge.
“This is America” explores the twin spectacles of entertainment and ultraviolence as the bedrock of Trump’s America.
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If NS columnist Ed Smith can select the England cricket team, I surely have the CV for sorting out football.
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