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Patrick Smith

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As seen in: MSN Ireland, MSN UK, The New York Times, Yahoo Entertainment, Business Insider, Scribd, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), The Telegraph, TIME and
Culture writer. Previously Head of Culture & Lifestyle @independent; formerly Music Editor @Telegraph. Instagram: www.instagram.com/phjsmith/
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Little Bird review – no wonder this masterly drama has already cleaned up awards

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By Patrick Smith Verified
| Yahoo News UK Verified
Few dramas will enrage you as much as Little Bird. Not because it's in any way hokey or problematic. On the contrary. Based on the real story of the Sixties Scoop – a period in Canada from the mid-1950s to the 1980s, when an estimated 20,000 First Nations children were forcibly removed from their families and adopted by non-Indigenous families – this heartbreaking tale is restrained and carefully measured. Melodrama is swerved, letting the injustice at this story's core slowly metastasise.
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Øya, Oslo review – Joyous festival with enough heart to bring even Robert Smith to tears

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By Patrick Smith Verified
| Yahoo Lifestyle Australia Verified
Øya, Oslo review – Joyous festival with enough heart to bring even Robert Smith to tears Mon 17 August 2026 at 2:47 pm UTC Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Smith, frontman for The Smiths (Raphael Pour-Hashemi) In recent years, Oslo's Øya Festival has faced opprobrium. It was sold to private equity firm KKR in 2024, which also holds some unrelated investments in Israeli companies.
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‘It’s been wild’: The unexpected story behind the (unofficial) Scotland World Cup song

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By Patrick Smith Verified
| Yahoo News UK Verified
It begins with a spare, pulsing electro beat, as if pacing the centre circle before kick-off. When it repeats, another layer drops, then another, the tension thickening bar by bar. Next comes the voice: deadpan and insouciant, yet capable of soaring.
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