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How the monarchy cashes in on our seabed
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Guy Standing explains how the Crown cashes in on exploiting the UK seabed. Bill Keller finds worrying comparisons between prisons in the UK and US and Matthew d’Ancona says that Oppenheimer blew up the culture long before Christopher Nolan’s latest film

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How the monarchy cashes in on our seabed

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