The World Turned Upside Down

By: Paul Dennett

Vast swathes of Britain are owned by a tiny oligarchy. Yet land privatisation continues to drain our commonwealth. The next Labour government has to change all that.

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Brett Christophers’ new book, The New Enclosure, has recently brought to public attention the greatest privatisation of recent times; that is, the privatisation of publicly- owned land. Since the advent of Margaret Thatcher to Downing Street in 1979, Christophers claims that 2 million hectares of land (equivalent to 10% of the land mass of Britain) has […]

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Brett Christophers’ new book, The New Enclosure, has recently brought to public attention the greatest privatisation of recent times; that is, the privatisation of publicly- owned land. Since the advent of Margaret Thatcher to Downing Street in 1979, Christophers claims that 2 million hectares of land (equivalent to 10% of the land mass of Britain) has […]

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Brett Christophers’ new book, The New Enclosure, has recently brought to public attention the greatest privatisation of recent times; that is, the privatisation of publicly- owned land. Since the advent of Margaret Thatcher to Downing Street in 1979, Christophers claims that 2 million hectares of land (equivalent to 10% of the land mass of Britain) has […]

Brett Christophers’ new book, The New Enclosure, has recently brought to public attention the greatest privatisation of recent times; that is, the privatisation of publicly- owned land. Since the advent of Margaret Thatcher to Downing Street in 1979, Christophers claims that 2 million hectares of land (equivalent to 10% of the land mass of Britain) has […]

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