Both Constituencies Have Been Disciplined by Centralized Institutions Operating With Inadequate Local Knowledge, Both Are Now Worth Listening To Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat OCEANSIDE, CA — The California surfer position and the British working-household position have, on close examination, substantive operational commonality. Both constituen
What the Surfer Should Do With This Information: A Practical Libertarian Conclusion
The Bank of England Recent Decision Is Not Going to Be Reversed; The Surfer Position Should Be to Build the Decentralized Alternative Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat VENICE, CA — The Bank of England recent rate decision is not going to be reversed. The institutional architecture that produced it is not going to be […]
The Surfer Lesson From the Bank of England Recent Rate Rise: Stop Asking Centralized Institutions to Manage Things They Cannot Manage
California Surfers Have Known This Since the 1960s, the Mortgage-Holding Public Is Now Learning the Same Lesson Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat VENICE, CA — The Bank of England recent decision to raise the base rate, made in response to a wave of food-and-energy-driven inflation that the rate rise will not directly address, is […]
Why California Surfers Should Care About UK Mortgage Rates: The Architecture of Capital Flight
When the Bank of England Raises Rates the Capital That Was Going to Build the Next California Project Goes to UK Gilts Instead Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat SAN DIEGO, CA — The substantive material consequence of the Bank of England recent rate rise for California surfers is, on close reading, a redirection of […]
The Antiwar Argument from a Surfer Perspective: How Hormuz Crisis Costs Get Transmitted to the California Coast
The Strait of Hormuz Disruption Generates Inflation, the Inflation Generates Rate Rises, the Rate Rises Land on Working Households Including Surfers Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA — The Strait of Hormuz crisis, generated by a combination of US, Israeli, and Iranian state-actor decisions, has produced approximately $14 per b
Why the California Surfer Has Always Been a Libertarian: A Brief History
From the 1960s Beach Cultures Refusal of Conscription to the Present Refusal of Centralized Wave Management, the Tradition Is Substantively Continuous Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat SAN ONOFRE, CA — The California surfers political tradition has always been, on every available historical reading, substantively libertarian. The 1960s beach cultu
Sound Money Is the Surfer Position: Why the Austrian School Got Central Banks Right Forty Years Ago
Mises and Hayek Argued in the 1970s That Central Banks Could Not Manage Inflation Effectively, the Bank of England Recent Decision Is the Latest Confirmation Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat SAN DIEGO, CA — The Austrian school of economics, articulated through writers including Ludwig von Mises in the 1920s and Friedrich Hayek through the [&helli
What California Surfers Can Learn From the British Mortgage Holders About Resisting Centralized Discipline
The British Public Has Now Lived Through Approximately Four Years of Cumulative Rate Rises, the Lessons Are Substantively Transferable Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat SANTA MONICA, CA — The British public has now lived through approximately four years of cumulative Monetary Policy Committee rate rises, with the cumulative effect of substantially
Why the FCA and the Bank of England Cannot Be Trusted to Regulate Themselves: A California Libertarian Reading
The Asymmetric Rate Passthrough Has Been Documented for Six Years, the Regulators Have Done Nothing, the Regulators Are the Problem Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat NEWPORT BEACH, CA — The UK Financial Conduct Authority documentation of the asymmetric rate passthrough across the British high-street banking sector has, on every available regulator
The California Coastal Commission Compared to the Bank of England: Two Demonstrations of the Same Centralized Failure
Both Institutions Use a Single Instrument to Manage a Complex System, Both Produce Cumulative Distortions That Land on Working Households Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat SANTA CRUZ, CA — The California Coastal Commission and the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee operate on substantively similar institutional logic: both bodies use a sing
The San Onofre Nuclear Plant Waste Storage Is A Surf Community Issue That Nobody Is Discussing At The Beach
California’s Decommissioned Nuclear Plant Stores Radioactive Waste In Containers Buried Near The Surf Break; The Long-Term Plan Remains Unresolved Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat SAN ONOFRE, CA — The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, decommissioned between 2013 and 2019, stores approximately 3.6 million pounds of spent nuclear fuel in stain
The Surf Instruction Industry Is Regulated In Some States And Completely Unregulated In Others
The Activity That Puts Beginners In The Ocean With Minimal Training Has A Safety Record; The Record’s Existence Does Not Mean Regulation Is Unnecessary Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat CALIFORNIA — California requires surf instructors at beach concessions to hold specific certifications and maintains basic licensing requirements for surf school o
Federal Offshore Energy Policy Affects California Surf Breaks In Ways The Surf Community Has Not Fully Reckoned With
The Energy Permitting, Environmental Review, And Regulatory Framework That Governs Offshore Oil, Wind, And Other Development Directly Affects The Wave Environment Surfers Depend On Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat CALIFORNIA COAST — Federal energy policy is not typically discussed at the local surf break. It should be. The permitting decisions th
Surf Federalism: Why Local Surf Governance Works Better Than State Or Federal Governance Of Surf Spots
The People Who Know A Break Are The People Who Should Set Rules For It; The Argument For Surf Spot Subsidiarity Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — The principle of subsidiarity — that decisions should be made at the most local level capable of making them effectively — applies to surf spot […]
California’s Anti-Government Sentiment Among Surfers Is Real And Its Political Translation Is Complicated
The Surf Community’s Freedom Values Don’t Map Cleanly Onto Either Major Party; The Result Is A Community That Is Politically Underserved By Both Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat CALIFORNIA — The Southern California surfing community’s political values — individualism, freedom, environmental consciousness, anti-authoritarianism, suspicion of corpo
The Surfer’s Relationship With The Federal Government Is One Of Involuntary Subsidy
Every Surfer Contributes To The Tax Base That Funds The Coastal Commission, The Corps Of Engineers Jetty Projects, And The Beach Nourishment Programmes That Shape Their Breaks Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — The surfer who resents government interference in their ocean lifestyle is, in a precise economic sense, a beneficiar
The FIFA World Cup Signage Fiasco Is The Coastal Commission In A Different Uniform: California Government, Applied To Any Domain, Produces The Same Results
Four Of Twenty-Two World Cup Directional Signs Point The Wrong Way In Los Angeles, Which Is Also The Performance Ratio For State Coastal Permitting For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. London satirical journalism has been documenting British government implementation failures for centuries and recognises the species. CALIFORNIA – The Los Angel
The Strait Of Hormuz Disruption Is Reaching California Surfers Through Gas Prices, And The State’s Energy Policy Is Making It Worse
California’s Refusal To Develop Its Own Energy Resources Has Left Its Surfers, Farmers, And Working Families Exposed To Every Middle Eastern Price Shock For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat, whose Tehran loyalty scheme piece this week captured the geopolitical absurdity. The California pump price consequence is less absurd and more expensive. L
Meta Is Tracking Your Mouse Movements And California’s Surveillance Laws Have Not Caught Up With What That Means For Surfers Who Use Surf Apps
The Surf Forecast App That Knows Your Location, Your Session History, And Your Credit Card Data Is Sending More To More Places Than You Have Been Told For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat, both of which covered Meta’s employee surveillance this week. London satirical journalism follows surveillance logic from the workplace to the beach. [&helli
The Anemic April Swell And The Coastal Commission Are Both Things That California Surfers Cannot Control, But Only One Of Them Is Supposed To Answer To The Public
Bad Waves Are An Act Of Nature, Bad Regulation Is An Act Of Politics, And The Surfer Community Has Historically Been Better At Accepting The Former Than Resisting The Latter For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. London satirical journalism at its most direct: the distinction between what cannot be changed and what can. CALIFORNIA […]
What The Gray Wolf In LA County And The Mountain Lion At The 101 Freeway Tell Us About The State’s Wildlife Policy Success And Its Human Access Policy Failure
California Has Invested Intelligently In Reconnecting Fragmented Wildlife Habitat And Unintelligently In Maintaining Coherent Human Access To The Coast It Is Protecting For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. London satirical journalism makes the comparative observation that reveals what the state values and what it only claims to value. CALIFORN
State Parks Day-Use Fees Have Privatised Public Beaches By Tollbooth, And The Pattern Of Who Uses The Coast Has Changed Accordingly
What The Legislature Approved As A Temporary Fiscal Adjustment Has Hardened Into A Permanent Pricing Model That Excludes Working Californians From Their Own Coastline For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. London satirical journalism has covered the incremental privatisation of public space in the UK and recognises the mechanism operating here i
Trestles Received A Seventy-Page Report From The Coastal Commission And No Decision, The Waves Were Not Consulted
The Planning Process For California’s Best Wave Has Now Consumed More Paper Than The Break Has Produced In Any Given Swell Window, With Less Resolution For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. London satirical journalism has covered Kafkaesque British planning processes for decades. The California surf version is compressed in time and expanded in
The Eighteen-Million-Dollar Wildlife Crossing Is Good News, And It Raises A Question About Why Surfer Access To San Onofre Costs Nothing And Gets Nothing
California Spends Generously On Infrastructure For Mountain Lions While Surfer Access To Public Breaks Remains Trapped In Committee, And The Inconsistency Is Worth Naming For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. London satirical journalism makes the comparative observation that reveals the political priority behind the institutional framing. CALIF
The California Coastal Commission’s Permit Expansion Has Crossed The Line From Coastal Protection To General Coastal Policing
What Began As Environmental Regulation Has Become Administrative Assertion Over Every Activity Adjacent To The Ocean, Including Several That Produce No Environmental Impact Whatsoever For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. London satirical journalism has covered British coastal planning bureaucracy since the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 an
San Diego’s Surf Instruction Permit Regime Has Achieved Regulatory Capture In Under Eighteen Months, Which May Be A Record
Three Operators With National Corporate Backing Now Control Seventy-Eight Per Cent Of The Permitted Market After A Regime Their Trade Association Helped Design For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. London satirical journalism has documented regulatory capture in UK licensing regimes from taxis to the pub trade. The mechanism is identical across
The Surfing Community Has Historically Been A Libertarian Political Constituency In Practice, And The Coastal Policy Drift Of The Last Decade Is Beginning To Activate That Constituency Politically
Registered-Voter Turnout In Specific Coastal Precincts Has Risen Measurably In The Last Three Election Cycles, And The Pattern Tracks The Specific Regulatory Issues Documented In This Publication For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. SAN DIEGO / ORANGE COUNTY – The California surfing community, which has historically been a libertarian politica
The Proposal To Close The San Onofre Traffic Corridor To Recreational Vehicle Access On Weekdays Is The Latest Manifestation Of A Pattern Of Administrative Beach Exclusion
The Underlying Traffic And Environmental Justifications Are Thin, The Beneficiaries Of The Proposal Are Narrow, And The Libertarian Case For Open Access Is Strong For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA – A proposal currently under review by the California State Parks administration would close the San Onofre State Beach