Ideas Matter

Guy Shrubsole: Who Really Owns England?

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Guy Shrubsole is a campaigner and writer. He campaigns for Friends of the Earth and has written for numerous publications including the Guardian and New Statesman. In his book Who Owns England, he goes trespassing through tightly-guarded country estates, ecologically ravaged grouse moors and empty Mayfair mansions, and uncovers a wealth of never-before-seen information about the people who own our land, to create the most comprehensive map of land ownership in England that has ever been made public. In this discussion with his editor, Tom Killingbeck, he talks about how he went about exposing the truth of land ownership in England, why land ownership is one of the most pressing issues we face today, and how we begin to take back our green and pleasant land. "We still have a massive housing crisis. As long as that remains the case [...] there needs to be a land reform movement, because ultimately the housing crisis isn't a crisis of the prices in bricks and mortar, they haven't gone up in price suddenly, it's a crisis of land affordability." All the books discussed throughout this series are available at Apple Books, via this link: https://apple.co/ideasmatter For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy