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Scorching weather, politics in crisis and a time like no other

heatwave

Pedestrians cool off with their feet in the water of the Trafalgar Square fountain, in central London, on July 13, 2022, during a heatwave. 

Photo credit: Justin Tallis | AFP

By  Gerry Loughran

Former long-serving editor at the Daily Nation. He writes the weekly Letter from London.

Has there ever been a time quite like this?

Britons last week sweltered under record-breaking temperatures, while forest fires ravaged much of the European continent.

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