Should you hate Magpies?

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Forget climate change and economic Armageddon – the most important question of our age clearly concerns the hatred of Magpies. Are you worried your Magpie hatred isn’t quite focused enough? Are you being pressured by peers into hating these corvids but don’t quite know the score? Then rest easy, because Phil’s going in search of evidence that will answer this question once and for all. Probably. Big, noisy, vicious – and responsible for the decline in songbirds across the UK? But enough about Phil, let’s investigate those Magpies…

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