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What Europeans Talk about when They Talk about Brexit

LRB Contributors: On Brexit, 3 January 2019

... tonnes of spuds a year for its domestic market, but Irish potatoes have a high sugar content and brown too quickly to make good chips. In 2017 Ireland imported almost 72,000 tonnes of potatoes from the UK, typically Marquis or Maris Piper.Cute hoors (Irish slang for crafty, cunning or sly individuals): In 2017, 50 per cent of Irish beef exports – valued at ...

Iraq, 2 May 2005

Andrew O’Hagan: Two Soldiers, 6 March 2008

... one of the roads leading out of town.’ ‘He was happy. He seemed cheerful,’ says Guardsman Gary Alderson, who was next to Wakefield in the snatch. ‘Seemed happy all the way round. I was facing rearwards, he was facing forwards.’ Two hundred metres short of the zone called Green 6 there was a loud explosion and what some of the soldiers describe as ...

What I Heard about Iraq

Eliot Weinberger: Watch and listen, 3 February 2005

... named Tariq say: ‘I see no difference between us and the Palestinians.’ I heard Captain Todd Brown say: ‘You have to understand the Arab mind. The only thing they understand is force – force, pride and saving face.’ I heard that the US, as a gift from the American people to the Iraqi people, had committed $18.4 billion to the reconstruction of ...

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