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TENS of millions of pounds in European Union subsidies are being paid to landowning billionaires and aristocrats in Britain, a Greenpeace study showed yesterday.
Of the 100 companies and landowners receiving the biggest basic payments from Europe, 20 of them feature on the Sunday Times Rich List, up from 16 a year ago, the environmental campaign group said.
The subsidies are based on the amount of land each owns — the bigger the estate, the bigger the subsidy.
STEPHEN ARNELL wonders at the family resemblance between former prince Andrew and his great-uncle ‘Dickie’
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
MARIA DUARTE recommends the ambitious portrait of an agricultural community confronted by the trauma of enclosure