Killing the commons: The hidden politics of industrial cheese

Filed by Elara Myst

 By Colin TodhunterGlobal Research, August 25, 2026 The following article is the third chapter of the book The Great Flattening: Enclosure, Extraction and the New Age of Concentrated Power, available for free here.  The decline of regional British cheeses is emblematic of the broader process of homogenisation, or the ‘great flattening’, through which land, culture and the human body lose autonomy and diversity.  There is a huge library of literature on British ...