Guy Shrubsole has long been concerned with who has ownership of Britain’s land. His 2019 book Who Owns England? was one of the first attempts to fully map the country’s owners since the Domesday Book, confirming that it is an appallingly tiny group of people. In The Lie of the Land, Shrubsole returns to lay Britain’s deteriorating ecological condition at their feet. “For centuries, landowners have claimed to be the trusted stewards of Britain’s landscapes… [These claims] increasingly ring hollow.” It’s a scorching explanation of how ecosystems are being brutalised by ...

 

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