Why Britain can’t save nature without facing up to who owns it

Why Britain can’t save nature without facing up to who owns it

Picture Britain as a rather large boat with 68 million passengers onboard. Half of the entire vessel is owned and managed by just a handful of people – the royal family, billionaire investors, aristocrats and ancient institutions like the Church of England or the Oxbridge colleges.  In such an imbalanced nautical arrangement, what would happen if the tiny elite at one end of the boat started drilling holes in their portion of the hull? Surely ev…