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    Summer of our discontent

    Jul 24, 2022 2 minutes
    ANDREW ANTHONY

    The English summer is by tradition a gentle kind of season: mild, green and full of soft, cooling breezes and refreshing showers. Not this year, and certainly not today as I write. The mercury has just gone north of 40⁰C for the first time in these islands’ recorded history.

    The climate activist group Extinction Rebellion has stormed the offices of News UK, publisher, in protest at its upbeat coverage of the heatwave. The grass in the parks is parched brown, like hay; Londoners have been advised to stay at home, and fires have broken out around the city’s edges. The air is so hot it’s sweat-inducing just to walk to the end of the street. Alas, there are very few places in which to find any respite.

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