The Property Rights Approach to Ocean Conservation Produces Better Outcomes Than Command-and-Control Regulation Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat Free Market Environmentalism and Surf Breaks: The Property Rights Approach CALIFORNIA — Free market environmentalism — the application of property rights frameworks to environmental protection — has prod

The Beach Permit Requirements That Official Surf Schools Navigate Have Produced an Off-Books Economy Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat California’s Surf Instruction Permit Regime and the Shadow Economy It Produced CALIFORNIA — Operating a commercial surf school on California’s public beaches requires a business license, a permit from the relevant

The Indigenous Practice That Became a Global Industry Through Colonial Appropriation Has Unresolved Restitution Questions Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat Surfing’s Colonial History and the Libertarian Case for Recognizing It HAWAII — Surfing was practiced in Hawaii for centuries before European contact, was documented by Captain Cook’s expeditio

The Unwritten Rules That Govern Surf Breaks in the Absence of Formal Property Rights Are Not Simply Aggression Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat Surf Localism: The Informal Property Rights System That Government Didn’t Design CALIFORNIA — Surf localism — the practice by which local surfers assert priority in the lineup at their home breaks, [&hell

When the Thing You Love Is Also a Marketing Demographic, Something About the Love Changes Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat The Commodification of Surf Culture: What Happens When the Counterculture Becomes a Market Segment CALIFORNIA — Surf culture has been commercially significant since the early 1960s, when surfboard manufacturers, wetsuit compa

When the Brand That Made Money From the Lifestyle Begins Dictating the Politics of the Life, Something Has Shifted Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat Patagonia’s Political Project and the Surfer’s Right to Their Own Politics CALIFORNIA — Patagonia has evolved from a gear company to an explicit political actor, converting its corporate structure to

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

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

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