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Amy Hall is a freelance journalist based in Brighton and a columnist for openDemocracyUK, writing about the environment, democracy, corporate power and the British state in the wake of Brexit. She is a member of Shoal Collective, a newly-formed cooperative of independent writers and researchers writing for social justice and a world beyond capitalism.

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European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

UK human rights defenders escape jail for stopping deportation flight

Amy Hall 6 February 2019

Defendants slam ‘vicious immigration system’ as disputed charter flight deportation continues to Jamaica.

Will the new Environment Bill really deliver Gove’s “Green Brexit”?

Amy Hall 24 January 2019

Next week parliament starts scrutinising draft legislation, but environmental campaigners are sceptical about the government’s “loopholes and vague aspirations”.

Here’s why not everyone in fishing is excited about Brexit

Amy Hall 31 October 2018

It’s not the EU that’s breaking the UK’s small fishing fleets, it’s the big industry players. And Brexit could make that worse.

The good ship Brexit’s mission of free trade and empire

Amy Hall 23 October 2018

It looks like we are heading for a Brexit that promotes multinational corporate interests over all.

Why Brexit threatens activism

Amy Hall 31 July 2018

Theresa May’s Brexit not only reduces democratic and judicial oversight of future decisions – it could restrict UK activists’ ability to protest bad decisions, free from interference and intrusive surveillance.

Of Brexit, the fracking lobby and the revolving door

Amy Hall 28 June 2018

Fracking firms are keen to benefit from Brexit, and are hiring firms staffed by well-placed insiders to lobby on their behalf.

Mining and Brexit - from Cornwall to the Commonwealth

Amy Hall 8 March 2018

Whilst other businesses worry about Brexit, well-placed mining companies and politicians with ideas of 'Empire 2.0' seem to be gearing up to exploit it - with worrying repercussions for communities.

Fracking giants grasp for dirty Brexit bonanza

Amy Hall 11 January 2018

The fracking industry is determined to limp ahead, despite record public opposition in the UK and fierce fightbacks from campaigners from North Yorkshire to Surrey and beyond.

DSEI: A supermarket for state surveillance and border wars

Amy Hall and Sara Woods 6 September 2017

As borders are increasingly militarised and their operation privatised, migration, more than ever before, is also an anti-militarist struggle.

London is cloaking environmental racism in respectability – but Zambian villagers are fighting back

Amy Hall 3 August 2017

Zambian villagers await a landmark judgement that could help hold British companies to account for their actions abroad.

The Tory–DUP deal could be a disaster for the environment

Amy Hall 28 June 2017

Though more than 50% of voters went for left-wing parties, what they have ended up with is a government even more regressive than the last – especially on climate change.

Why won't the government take air pollution seriously? It's killing thousands

Amy Hall 1 June 2017

40,000 people die per year because of outdoor air pollution in the UK, yet the government’s draft plan released in May 2017 to improve air quality is not enough. What is at stake?