We should soak the landowners  Lloyd George favoured it; so did
Churchill and Adam Smith. Denmark has one, as does Sydney,
Australi  How exhausting, expensive, maddening to live in a
country where our destiny is to be squashed between a red-
blooded feudal system and an even more rapacious market economy.
So we have a Queen who receives a £50m tax-free bunce from her
mother in a jubilee year, and much happy swapping of palaces, at
a time when every news story apparently points to a population
on the verge of a nervous breakdown: lousy infrastructure
(Potters Bar just the latest spasm), an NHS where catching a
hospital infection is a one-in-ten shot, and an education system
that offers our children lower horizons than their parents had.
Yet making connections with these increasingly sore subjects is
at last allowing the revival of a political big idea which,
since David Lloyd George was chancellor before the First World
War, has dared not speak its name: land value taxation (LVT).
If Tony Blair wants his place