Guy Shrubsole goes far beyond a simple list or basic analysis of the landowners of England. He delves with incredible detail and erudition into a thousand years of history and he does it with style and authority. He names and shames, he uncovers, he weeds out, and he reveals the links between the monarchy, the aristocracy, the Church, big business and the State. He takes you on a breathless journey across England and exposes the corruption of the aristocrats and corporate tax evaders who 'own' land from off shore tax havens; the billionaire oligarchs who use land and property ownership as a means of laundering money and driving up land value; he highlights the 0.01% of the population known as 'aristocrats' who hoard their huge swathes of land (keeping them cloaked in secrecy), while syphoning off tax-payers money via farm subsidies, and using anachronistic primo-geniture laws to retain ownership of land that was stolen via a dubious inheritance in the first place, and the scandal of Enclosure in the second; he shows you the disgrace that is the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of acres of perfectly good land, burned and decimated to make grouse moors so that a few elite aristocrats and wealthy bankers can pretend they live during the reign of Queen Victoria and shoot glorified chickens; and he also rails against the environmental impact of irresponsible land stewardship that, for profit or other selfish reasons, leads to more flooding, more chemicals on farmland, more pollution, the destruction of trees, nature reserves, woodland, hedgerows, the obliteration of wildlife and insect species, as well as depriving the vast majority of the population of the right to roam and enjoy their own country.
It does all this and more, and, frankly, only a member of the landed elite could possibly be critical.
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