Liz Truss has chosen to protect farmers over flood victims | George Monbiot

By doing everything the farming lobby asks, the UK environment secretary is using public money to make the flooding of the built environment even more likely

Those of you with memories longer than a week will be aware that Britain experienced a degree of hydrological inconvenience in December. You know: 16,000 homes inundated, 5bn of damage, that kind of thing. I vaguely recall that it made the news once or twice.

You may also remember that, for the first time in Britain, there was a wide-ranging discussion on the causes of the floods. Connections that have been familiar to geographers, hydrologists and fluvial geomorphologists for two centuries finally broke through the media dam and into public debate. We began, at last, to discuss the second component of freshwater flooding.