Report calls for reform of 'unhealthy' land ownership in Scotland

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2. Trump's a very minor player in Scotland, corrosive as he is.

There are far larger "sporting" estates that do support some jobs, but make little profit for the amount of land involved, and the worst of them perpetuate a near-feudal system. Trump did try that approach with his neighbours at the Menie estate in Aberdeenshire, but came a cropper, as the "You've Been Trumped" film documented, and the Tripping up Trump campaign gained international attention a few years ago.

The report also focuses on institutional landowners like the Church of England, the Forestry Commission and the National Trust for Scotland. It's not that these are necessarily guilty of bad behaviour, more that the scale of their holdings can blight other uses of the land and their clout makes them largely unaccountable to the local communities.