An unusually delicate winter is just not as dramatic as a heatwave. It’s fairly helpful once you’re making an attempt to defeat Vladimir Putin’s vitality blackmail. Europe’s fuel crunch is much less painful than feared.
As we see in 2023, then, UK information is dominated by a rogue royal oversharing about his early sexual encounters. Our prime minister Rishi Sunak lacking local weather motion off his 5 priorities has been overshadowed by discourse on whether or not making 17-year-olds research maths will crush their creativity. (My unpopular opinion: numeracy is sweet, really, you probably have the maths lecturers to instill it, which we don’t.)
Certainly, the dominant local weather tales over the Christmas break had a feelgood flavour. Whose coronary heart might fail to be warmed by Greta Thunberg’s public takedown of misogynist influencer, supercar fanatic and alleged intercourse trafficker Andrew Tate? What’s to not love about Glass Onion, Netflix’s camp whodunnit that skewers billionaire hubris and hinges on a – bodily implausible, politically salient – hydrogen-derived gasoline?
However it’s my solemn responsibility to tell you that international heating continues to be an issue. 2022 was the warmest yr on file for the UK, once more, and within the prime 10 globally. And so we get again to work.
Completely happy new yr, readers.
This week’s tales
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