Guy Shrubsole

3 weeks ago | unherd.com | Guy Shrubsole

GeographyLabour PartyLand reformPoliticsRight to BuyUK “England is a country in which property and financial power are concentrated in very few hands,” wrote George Orwell in The Lion and the Unicorn. Back then, in 1941, he advocated “an upward limit to the ownership of land”. Eighty-four years later, the writer would doubtless be depressed to learn that half the land in England is still owned by less than 1% of the population.

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Guy Shrubsole

Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902. Mud on your bootsFrom rainswept canopies to clashing tectonic platesTemperate rainforests – the cool cousins of tropical rainforests – cover less than 1 per cent of the Earth’s surface, yet comprise some of the most gorgeous and biodiverse habitats on the planet. In this richly illustrated book, the ecologist M. L.

Nov 12, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Guy Shrubsole |Rowan Williams

We live in a democracy, but how much say does the public have over how its land is used? In England today, less than one per cent of the population owns half the land, and they exert huge sway over how the countryside is governed. Just 150 huge estates, for example, own England’s upland peat bogs – our single most important natural carbon store. You’d hope that these landowners, a mix of aristocrats and City bankers, would strive to be good stewards of this vitally important national asset.

Nov 6, 2024 | standard.co.uk | Guy Shrubsole |Emily Beament

Large landowners should be required to report on their action for nature, conservationists say (Gareth Fuller/PA)PA ArchiveCampaigners have called for an “ecological Domesday survey” requiring large landowners to report on how they are looking after their land for nature. They say the assessment, so-called for its echoes of the Domesday survey nearly a thousand years ago in 1086 that asked landowners to report on the land they owned, would help deliver a much-needed boost for nature.

Oct 19, 2024 | ft.com | Guy Shrubsole

It’s not every day that you find thousands of people thronging the streets of the tiny Scottish town of Langholm; still less likely that...