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I’m ashamed that I used to think ABBA wasn’t cool 

Plus: a podcast that fell suspiciously neatly into ‘feisty gram- maw’ territory

Abba performing 'Waterloo' at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. Image: Olle Lindeborg / AFP via Getty Images
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