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Environ Agency head Chris Smith: ‘I’m not having my staff belittled’
Posted by Guardian: Stephen Moss on February 16th, 2014
Guardian: 'It was a terrible decision to direct ministerial fire against Chris Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency," wrote Matthew D'Ancona last week in his column in the London Evening Standard. "Those on the Tory side who think of him as a political seven-stone weakling are sorely mistaken. He is a sharp customer who fights his corner." Quite an encomium for a former Labour cabinet minister from a former editor of the Spectator.
I have to admit that I, too, had always thought of Smith, culture secretary...
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Posted by Guardian: Stephen Moss on February 3rd, 2014
Guardian: For the residents of Muchelney and Moorland, in the heart of the Somerset Levels, the misery goes on. Homes under water, roads cut off, and vast lakes of water where once there were open fields. For dairy farmers, already under pressure from low milk prices and higher feed costs, this could be the final straw.
I live nearby, but our home is 50ft above sea level, and our village has escaped the worst of the flooding. Even so, I have been inundated with messages from friends, wondering if we too...
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