Who owns Britain
by Kevin Cahill · first published 2001
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…capita at PPP is 39% more in the US than the UK, yet UK housing prices are nearly twice (!) as much as the US on a per-square-foot basis. And I thought US housing prices were nuts! There is a good book, "Who Owns Britain", that points out that just 6000 landowners (mainly the Dukes, Earls and Barons a la Downton Abbey, but also large institutions and the Crown) own over half the land in Britain. That gross concentration…
on “Britain Is a Developing Country” ↗There's a book called Who Owns the World? by Kevin Cahill. I haven't read it (I read his earlier Who Owns Britain?) though I did hear him talking about it on the radio a while back, and he said that the only place in the world he'd found where you really could own your own land, was America. The Queen, technically,…
on “When the government hides spy cameras on your land, fight back in court” ↗This otherwise very fine article misses one simple explanation, esp wrt France vs UK: The majority of the UK is owned by very few people. Cite: "Who Owns Britain" by Brian Cahill. This ownership has not been transparent. Nor do they pay their share of taxes; rather they receive an outside amount of subsidies. The first step to fixing UK's vetocracy by fixing…
on “Democracy Is the Solution to Vetocracy” ↗