Who Owns England? How We Lost Our Green & Pleasant Land & How to Take It Back — Hidden Power

England’s housing crisis, ecological decline, restricted countryside access, and widening inequality may be connected by a system that is rarely placed at the center of public debate: who owns the land.Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.Using Who Owns England? How We Lost Our Green & Pleasant Land & How to Take It Back by Guy Shrubsole as our lens, this episode investigates how England’s ownership patterns were created, why they remain unusually concentrated, and how secrecy helps preserve them.Shrubsole traces modern land ownership through conquest, enclosure, inheritance, aristocratic estates, public institutions, corporations, trusts, offshore ownership, and the privatization of public land. His investigation shows how ownership affects more than the distribution of acreage. It shapes housing supply, land values, rental income, farming subsidies, access to the countryside, development decisions, and ecological stewardship.At a systems level, the episode examines information asymmetry, path dependence, rent extraction, public investment, institutional influence, and the feedback loop through which concentrated ownership generates the wealth and power needed to protect itself.📺 Watch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/DSwKKVv2AKE❤️ Support / Episode Post on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/CrisisinPerception/posts/who-owns-england-165584679?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkIf these ideas resonate, consider reading the work yourself or borrowing it from your local library. Supporting authors and libraries helps keep critical inquiry accessible.If you value systems-level analysis like this, please follow, rate, and share the project.This content was created using AI-assisted tools for research synthesis, structuring, and narration support. All analysis, framing, and editorial decisions are guided by human judgment as part of the Crisis in Perception project.