I'm taking flak from Richard North (doesn't everyone?) for not linking to him and Booker enough. This is slightly odd because I cited North a couple of days ago and there is a link to his EU revelations in the "Seen elsewhere" column. Still, Booker's article in the Spectator today - a roundup of the floods debacle - gives me an opportunity to air their work further.
It's interesting to compare this rather level-headed take on the floods with Damian Carrington's melodramatic offering of a couple of days ago:
The stormy assault mounted by the extreme weather since December is most relentless the nation has ever recorded, with one extreme attack has smashing in after another. The opening salvo - a huge East coast storm surge - was the most severe since at least 1953; the Christmas deluge sank Surrey and the Levels; the January monsoon was the greatest since at least 1766; ferocious, incessant winds topping 100mph are set to blow away decades-old records.
The problem is that the dull truth - bureaucracy and environmentalism - is just not as good a sales pitch as "OMG we're destroying the planet". The dull truth may well get through eventually, but it will be an uphill struggle against the massed forces of the disreputable.