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Its Model S is the least stolen car in the United States, but it’s not yet clear if that’s because it’s hard to steal, because it’s not worth stealing yet or simply because crooks haven’t yet worked out how to bypass its security
Portishead: ‘We’re a bit of a sleeping dragon’
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Bad lands: Fahrenheit 451 and other fiery dystopias
Ray Bradbury’s great dystopian vision is 60. Thankfully the book-burning world it depicts has not yet come to pass, so we can still read it and other dark visions
‘Irish illustrators are on fire at the moment’
Ahead of the Rebels and Rulebreakers Children’s Books Ireland Conference, which takes place this weekend, we asked some of the participants about which books rocked their world
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