Iain has a good post up over at Planet Gore on the need to kill subsidies for fishing. This is one of my wonkier pet peeves in that I think the state of the oceans is one of those areas where environmentalists are right, both about the sorry shape of the oceans and the damage done by subsidies. I also think environmentalists are generally right about the damage done by generic agricultural subsidies as well. I normally hate calls for left-right alliances on this or that, because invariably you’re going to end up with cider in your ear, or the No Child Left Behind Act. But, if someone could figure out how to form a right-left coalition against this sort of self-defeating policy I’d jump on board in a heart beat.