Well now, here’s a fun fact about Britain: according to the investigative journalist Kevin Cahill, in the UK and Ireland, 70% of land is still owned by less than 1% of the population. In his book Who Owns Britain, Cahill argues that 0.3% of all British population owns 66% of the country, and these 160,000 families who own two thirds of Great Britain largely descend from the army of William the Conqueror — the first Norman King of England who first conquered the country in 1066. Cahill’s research traces the roots of current land ownership patterns back to the Norman Conquest of 1066. In the boo…
