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Editor’s Note

The world is topsy-turvy. News headlines shout, ‘Paris records hottest day as temperatures sear Europe’… ‘Dutch invoke national heatwave plan as temperatures soar and, yes, it works’… ‘Britain melts as temperatures reach 40˚C’… ‘London struck by violent thunderstorms and lightning’ (on the day Boris Johnson becames the

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