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CIPC #329: Midsomer Murders S20 E2, Death of the small coppers

Posted on June 27, 2023June 27, 2023

It’s been entirely too long since we’ve last talked about cold old British crime television. So let’s return to Midsomer Murders. Exactly six years ago,1…

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CIPC #328: Das Kriminalmuseum E13, Tödliches Schach

Posted on June 21, 2023

I haven’t kept statistics about this,1 but I suspect that over ninety percent of the things I discuss on this blog have been anglophonic. That’s…

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CIPC #327: Fighting mad

Posted on June 14, 2023December 28, 2023

In the age-old tradition of Chess in popular culture, we’re going to talk about a franchise which was once huge but has now been relegated…

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CIPC #326: SKY ad

Posted on June 6, 2023June 6, 2023

SKY is a broadcasting company from New Zealand. They must have been incredibly popular, because in 2009 they decided to scare some away: they published…

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With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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