Kim Howells

Dr Kim Howells (born November 27, 1946) is a Labour politician in Wales, and member of Parliament for Pontypridd. He entered the House of Commons in a by-election in 1989. He has been a junior minister in various departments since the 1997 election, and currently serves as a minister at the Department for Transport.

In 2002 when Minister for Culture, he criticised the Turner Prize by writing a note that read

If this is the best British artists can produce then British art is lost. It is cold mechanical, conceptual bullshit. Kim Howells. P.S. The attempts at conceptualisation are particularly pathetic and symptomatic of a lack of conviction