How can we talk about this extreme weather now that it’s a battleground in the culture wars? | Andy Beckett

Weather forecasts once gave Britons something safe to chat about. Not any more, and that’s a problem for the experts – indeed, for all of us In this fragmented but supposedly mild country, watching and talking about the weather forecast is meant to be a reassuring, unifying activity. Collectively, we have created and m

‘The Prime Minister has finally acknowledged the ongoing weather crisis and announced he will chair a COBRA meeting on the matter. Labour MP Clive Lewis has said that the first point on the meeting agenda should be “North Sea Oil“. He says this because Andy Burnham has suggested he’d be open to more drilling despite […

Andy Burnham will chair a meeting of the UK Government’s emergency Cobra committee on Wednesday in response to extreme heat