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I know it is not necessarily fashionable to heap praise on a government department, let alone Defra. But as I listened to a debate yesterday at the Policy Exchange at which both the Secretary of State, Caroline Spelman MP, and Biodiversity Minister, Richard Benyon MP, spoke, I felt optimistic. Despite...

Caroline Spelman has made a video for us, encouraging us all to read the Government’s shiny new Natural Environment White Paper . It’s only a couple of minutes long and it looks as if our intrepid Secretary of State endured a rather blustery day on the North York Moors on the day it was filmed...