Considering air con? That’s how much the UK’s climate has changed already

My kids are growing up in an England where sweltering conditions are no longer freakish – no wonder they think pumping in cold air is reasonableI don’t think I had a single conversation about air conditioning until 2005, when a burst of August weather that we would now consider a respite felt like the mouth of hell.Sitting in a pub living some Smiths lyrics (gasping, dying, but somehow still alive), a lugubrious friend who took delight only from grim irony said: “If this carrie