Colin Greenwood

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We tend to dislike the birds — because, says Jon Day, their adaptability and homing instincts are too like our own

issue 22 June 2019

Growing up as a rootless army brat in bases home and abroad, I would listen in appalled delight to my parents’ record of Tom Lehrer singing ‘Poisoning pigeons in the park’: ‘When they see us coming the birdies all try and hide/ but they still go for peanuts, when coated in cyanide.’

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