So this felt like a genuinely fresh and original way into a perennial subject.

This was a decade of serial killers, cultists and headline-grabbing stories, said McDonald.

We have allowed for burials to happen.

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It feels profoundly important.

Im probably spending less on travel and adventure, taking fewer bets, he added.

Were not a volume player and its not about making more.

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This is about being judicious in what were making and having defining pieces.