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Re:Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Populatio... by pytester on Saturday April 20, 2019 @05:52PM (#19709093)
Article seems to think that it's actually 0.04%:

>half the country belongs to just 25,000 landowners, some of them corporations.

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Re:Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Populatio... by FabHK on Sunday April 21, 2019 @12:54PM (#19713044)
Yes, why on earth would they round 0.04% to "less than 1%"?

Might as well say that "More Than 2% of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Population" - still true, nearly as misleading.

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