I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
Aaron I spent the summer on the Baltic coast reading David Landes, Wealth and Poverty of Nations. The book should be read. I was struck by an excellent section on why Britain, rather than other countries, reaped economic growth, lifting millions out of dire, gut wrenching poverty. His summary, below, provides a simple, yet not simplistic, … Read more
A few weeks ago there was a lot of press coverage of a report from the UK Parliament on the ownership of UK fishing quota. I enjoyed listening to a debate on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme. I liked the discussion so much – well i like fisheries policy and it is not often that … Read more
I like Commissioner Damanaki. She has guts and is prepared to take on the entrenched political interests of the establishment. She fought the fascit dictatorship in Greece, saw good friends murdered, and endured torture and imprisonment. That background of taking on some of the most outdated and insidious thinking known to man must have been … Read more
An interesting study on brain structure and political beliefs @ http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(11)00289-2 Colin Firth was one of the authors. There is perhaps a follow up study to be done to see if politicians brains blank out when you say “sound science”, “stop printing the money”, and “trade is good”.