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Meghan Markle has demonstrated why children won’t like The Bench
Any sensible tot will hurl it from the cot because of its elephantine agenda
How Trojan Records conquered the world
The story behind the first and finest anthology of ska, rocksteady and reggae
The best podcasts to be enjoyed at 4 a.m.
Many of the stories humans have told about the stars could be relevant to the ambitions of very wealthy men
Let’s just go ahead and ban books
Oversensitive readers can now line-edit novels by getting mad at their content on the internet
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Stone Cold was foul-mouthed, sadistic and mean — and people loved him
The rising cost of remembering the Fab Four
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