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    Weed ‘em or weep

    Oct 10, 2021 2 minutes
    GREG DIXON

    Catsear. Oxtongue. Hawksbeard. Bellis perennis. Hydrocotyle. Plantain. Storksbill. Richard Nixon might have had a long list of enemies. But so do I.

    Nixon’s list was of political adversaries, and his plan was to “screw” them by sicking the US Inland Revenue Service on to them. The names on Dixon’s enemies list face a much bleaker future: I want them dead. The fact they are weeds does

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