Twelve culture secretaries in 13 years: what does that say about the Tories’ attitude to the arts?
From Jeremy Hunt to Nadine Dorries and the rest, recent incumbents have overseen a massive reduction in funding, and steadily downgraded the place of the arts in national life
October 2017
Brief letters
HL Mencken predicted a moron in the White House
Brief letters: Iain Duncan Smith | Donald Trump | Oxford firsts | New comrades | Larn, not smell
January 2016
Environment Agency chief regrets delayed return from Barbados
Sir Philip Dilley tells MPs he wishes he had cut short Christmas break to help deal with flooding in northern England
December 2015
UK is going into reverse on clean energy, says former Environment Agency head
Government must develop renewables as well as fracking but has damaged viability of shale gas by cancelling a carbon capture and storage scheme, says Chris Smith
July 2015
Fracking subsidies would be better spent elsewhere
Too early to say if fracking is good for the UK, says taskforce
March 2015
Lord Smith 'hugely sceptical' of fracking for shale oil in the UK
Former environment agency chief says environmental case for shale oil in the UK is much tougher to make than for shale gas and calls for a single regulator
October 2014
Former Environment Agency head to lead industry-funded fracking task force
Lord Chris Smith will lead a new ‘independent’ task force, funded by shale gas companies, to look into the risks and benefits of fracking in the UK
June 2014
Allow fracking in national parks, says Environment Agency chief
Chris Smith, EA's outgoing chairman, dismisses campaigners' claims over impact when process 'done properly'
February 2014
Greenslade
Why Lord (Chris) Smith is a shoo-in as chair of the new press regulator
Flood area defences put on hold by government funding cuts
The G2 interview
Environment Agency head Chris Smith: 'I'm not having my staff belittled'
Flooding crisis likely to get worse, warns David Cameron
Ministers playing politics with floods, says Environment Agency chief
Chris Smith: the political herbivore under fire as Environment Agency boss
