The decline of British fishing drove coastal support for leaving the EU, but many of the industry’s problems have an origin closer to home.
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Unearthed: Privatising the seas: how the UK turned fishing rights into a commodity
Media
Defend Wikileaks: Julian Assange charged under Espionage Act in unprecedented attack on First Amendment
Yesterday, 23 May, federal prosecutors unsealed a new, 18-count superseding indictment charging Julian Assange with violating the Espionage Act, the first use of the 1917 law against a publisher. Read here
Economics
Prime – Ann Pettifor: Rentier capitalism is profoundly risk-averse
21st century capitalism bears little resemblance to the capitalism that fired the Industrial Revolution, or indeed to the more recent Thatcher/Reagan model of capitalism. Key sectors of today’s new hyper-capitalism are profoundly risk averse. Read […]
Economics
Hilary Wainwright: The economics that came in from the cold
Tory-supporting media have been portraying Jeremy Corbyn as a Soviet fellow-traveller, while unnoticed the shadow chancellor sets out a vision that breaks with the old bureaucratic state model Read here
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