Daily Mail on the topic of "They own land, give them money!"

Janet Street-Porter in The Daily Mail, is on good form:

The largest landowner in Scotland is a Danish billionaire who is busy returning his holdings in the remote Highlands to wilderness areas where you can rent beautifully restored crofters cottages and lodges for luxury breaks.

Zac and Ben are old pals of the Prime Minister- they all attended Eton. Last autumn the Prime Minister borrowed the Goldsmith’s family house in Spain for a short holiday.

But inevitably, she lapses into Home-Owner-Ism:

… shouldn’t the government do more to protect farmland and forestry by refusing to allow unrestricted housing development on rural sites? Instead, every small town in England is becoming surrounded by building sites churning out identikit estates of noddyland housing on land which once produced food.

“Every small town”? “surrounded”? Really? As to “Noddlyland”, most people live in fairly non-descript housing, I don’t see why that’s a problem. And they get far more benefit from their home than they would have done growing a bit of fruit and veg on the plot. I’m still waiting for the first Nimby activist to buy and demolish housing and sell the land back to a farmer.

But hey, she’s got the general idea.