Christopher Booker

Revealed: how green ideology turned a deluge into a flood

<div id="bloop_customfont">Somerset saw the floods coming. The Environment Agency should have, too.</div>

issue 15 February 2014

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[/audioplayer]It has taken six long weeks to uncover the real hidden reasons why, from the West Country to the Thames Valley, the flooding caused by the wettest January on record has led to such an immense national disaster.

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