No-one ever made the land. Apart from inheriting it, the only way you can come by land is to put a fence round it and tell people that it's yours from now on. In other words by stealing it. All private land was stolen at some time in the past. Just because it has been passed on to you doesn't mean it was never stolen. There are penalties for stealing. The penalty for stealing land should be a tax on it. There wouldn't be much tax per acre on land that not much can be done with, such as mountains and deserts. Land in urban areas, and the best agricultural land, is far more valuable and should be highly taxed. My land tax would only kick in once you owned more than a certain amount of land. In London that might be a quarter of an acre. In the mountains it might be a thousand acres. If you owned land that you were doing nothing with, or were using to the detriment of the environment, you would forfeit it. A land tax that made no exceptions, not even for the Queen, would soon have people throwing their fences away. We don't need big landowners wielding power in unjust and undemocratic ways. What we need is millions of small landowners. They would use the land in the best way they knew how, because it was theirs, not someone else's. Someone working the land for Prince Charles is never going to invest the same love, care and standard of efficiency than they would if it was their own land.

That's my impossible fantasy and I'm sticking to it.