MIT Press Media: London and how it emerged through trade in fish, which should give people hope. If you can find a product that people want to buy then you can thrive. Quote: 1840’s – For all low-priced fish the poor are the costermongers’ best customers, and a fish diet seems becoming almost as common among the ill paid classes of London, as is a potato diet among the peasants of Ireland. Comment: yet Ireland this was the time of the Famine when 1 million+ died from starvation and 1.5+ million emigrated to whatever country would take them

How Fish Markets Transformed London’s Architectural Identity London’s bustling fish trade left an indelible mark on the city’s built environment.

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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Black Gold ie Oil; Data the new Gold: We may be facing protectionism once more in the West but we need to keep our eye on geopolitics too. We need oil and Ireland is so exposed because most of our supply comes through UK who in turn gets a lot of its energy resources from France who relies on Nuclear Energy. For Ireland, hence we pay the highest energy costs in Europe. Life long learning is what politics is about and that is for all people.

NEW: How Western oil companies bet on Kazakhstan — and ended up at the mercy of Vladimir Putin Inbox The

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