Flights cancelled, trains halted, schools shut, wildfires, burst pipes, melting roads, tragic deaths and threats of rationing – Blowtorch Britain is a disaster zone.
Extreme heat on Meltdown Monday with Tortuous Tuesday to follow today are an expensive, lethal danger to our country.
The climate emergency fuelled by pollution will only worsen unless we take drastic steps.
Many older people remember the hot summer of 1976 with its drought and hose pipe ban.
Well, that heatwave doesn’t even make Britain’s top 10 hottest days.
Nine of them were recorded since then and the 2019 record is predicted to be broken today.
Tory wannabe Prime Ministers largely avoid discussing climate change because they are small-minded and obsessed with tax cuts.
The crisis underlines why we cannot afford not to invest in a greener future when the cost of doing nothing would be far higher.
Vile display
Running scared of voters seeing what a bunch of spiteful, self-serving politicians they really are, Conservative contenders to be installed as Prime Minister without a General Election are cowards.
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss clearly calculate that pulling the plug on tonight’s debate will be to their benefit by denying Penny Mordaunt and Kemi Badenoch further publicity.
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But they are kidding themselves if they hope the electorate will forget how much they hate each other after watching recent clashes.
When they pretend to respect each other in the Cabinet, we’ll remember the Nasty Party.
Right to ban
Young brains are precious and vulnerable so the English Football Association experimenting next season with header bans in under-12 games is to be welcomed.
The growth in the number of old pros with dementia requires caution in a sport that has continually adapted, and more research and experiment such as this is needed to find the best way to protect all players.
