Pirates of the North Sea
The government’s attempt to hide a toxic waste disaster heralds a new bonanza for organised crime.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 6th June 2022
With every passing week, it looks more like a cover-up. The repeated mass strandings of crabs and lobsters on the coast of north-east England, and the ever less plausible explanations provided by the government, are the outward signs of an undersea disaster and a grim new politics.