Are repeated sightings of non-existent big cats evidence of a yearning for a wilder life? An extract from Feral: searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding, by George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 22nd May 2013. The setting was unimprovable. Across the fields, Maiden Castle, a turretted fortress of living rock, clawed at the [...]

When scholars sell out, the consequences are grave. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th May 2013 In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published a piercing attack on the intellectuals of his day. They should, he argued in La Trahison des Clercs (the treason of the scholars) act as a check on popular [...]

Corruption and short-termism are pushing us along the path of sorrows. By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website, 10th May 2013 The records go back 800,000 years: that’s the age of the oldest fossil air bubbles extracted from Dome C, an ice-bound summit in the high Antarctic. And throughout that time there has been [...]