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Super intelligent rats

Children's self-destruction, Avelino and Cormoran Strike

Sep 30, 2023
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I’m drenched in nostalgia for adolescence. It’s not just that our eldest is now learning how to make beans on toast, having left home to go to college this week. It’s this article about the Hulme estate in Manchester during the 1980s.

Copyright: Richard Davis

The Hulme estate of the late 1980s was a crucible of council tenants, students, and Irish const…

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