By the time this weekend is over, many places in the UK will have seen six successive days where it has passed 30 centigrade. That will be double what has ever happened before in the UK during the month of September.
For those who don’t like the heat, they should be grateful it is September. Had the current weather pattern emerged in July or early August, the temperature would have soared into the late 30s. 40 centigrade may have happened ...
When I saw that Rishi Sunak took a helicopter to travel 110 miles so he could announce deregulation of pollution from new housing developments, I thought we’d reached ‘Peak Sunak’. It was mind-boggling that he or his advisers would have thought this was a good idea. Every day we hear depressing news about the climate passing tipping point and the Prime Minister acts like he couldn’t give a toss.
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Then, later in ...
I quite enjoyed the women’s World Cup. There were some good games and of course England did very well. Ultimately, they got stuffed in the final (if you can be stuffed 1-0) but they showed great team spirit to get as far as they did. They got the rub of the green against Nigeria in the last 16 but not in the final.
But did it grip the nation in the way the media tried to make us believe? I think it spiked an interest but personally, I was ...
Britain is bracing itself for two days of warmish weather to hit our shores. In scenes that some forecasters are predicting will be a bit like August, people have been advised to wear a T-shirt and take their jackets off.
Hotter than Finland
The normal temperatures and dry conditions are set to blast into Britain on Wednesday and Thursday before it becomes dreary and miserable again on Friday. With temperatures set to be warmer than ...
When I drove down to Cornwall last week, a strange thing happened. I knew the weather was going to be utterly miserable but I didn’t care. I was looking forward to a break and there was nothing the weather could do about it.
Hope and Despair
Why was this? How could I possibly be looking forward to a wet break? Well, it’s like this. There is an old saying that goes, “Give me despair, I can take despair…it’s the hope that kills ...
