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Leave the scallops at the bottom of the deep blue sea
PETER FROST is throwing stones – and big ones at that – onto the Dogger Bank to stop the ecocidal trawlers
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
THE shallow seas around our coasts have a rich variety of wildlife, some of it valuable as food.
Perhaps the most valuable single catch is scallops. Unsurprisingly then, it is scallop-dredging that is thought to have the most severe ecological effect of all British marine fisheries because the damage and mortality it causes the seabed and species that live there.
Greenpeace’s ship the Esperanza is dumping huge granite boulders to build an underwater barrier to protect almost 50 square miles of the Dogger Bank Special Area of Conservation from seabed trawling after the government failed to commit to properly protect the area.
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