The New Statesman
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Ben Goldsmith set about rewilding his 300-acre estate in Somerset after the death of his daughter Iris.
Goldsmith is a green investor and chair of the Conservative Environment Network.
He wants to recreate the kind of landscape that existed in the UK before the enclosure of the commons.
Many Brits no longer understand what wildlife is, he said.
A few months after Iris died, Goldsmith visited a spiritualist medium on the recommendation of another bereaved parent.
The medium said she had made contact with Iris and was able to relay extraordinary and unaccountable messages to Goldsmith from his daughter.
Iris said she was sorry, and that she’d been dancing with him in his dreams (she had); she told him to open the large pink book he was afraid of opening.
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