Fish Farming Now Bigger Business Than Wild Caught Fish

Bloomberg dropped the news today. “For the first time, the world is eating more fish from farms than from the open sea, spurring billions of dollars of takeovers as one of the largest food companies seeks to capitalize on rising demand.” We are now eating more farmed bred fish than wild caught fish.   The … Read more

Why Value Models Explain Why Labour Lost in May 2015

I recommend the excellent piece by Jon Cruddas MP in the New Statesman on why Labour lost the May 2015 General Election. It draws on polling and Value Model Analysis. I have written before about the use of using Value Models before. Labour is now only ahead in the Pioneer class. The Conservatives dominate the Prospector class … Read more

How A Kiwi Saved His Country Going Broke

New Zealand is a very prosperous, free, and content country. As recently as the 1980s, it was not.  Radical free market reforms helped make it a better place. And, those changes were introduced by a Labour government. I have been interested in how these radical reforms happened. Why was there no rioting in the streets? … Read more

Has Juncker Junked Europe’s Environmental Policy?

  President’s Juncker European Commission is accused of downgrading Europe’s environmental agenda. Green 10, a broad coalition of environmental NGOs, criticise him  (see their letter of 12 September 2014 here), for: For the first time in 25 years there will be no fully empowered Commissioner for the Environment Sustainability seems to have disappeared from EU priorities … Read more