It has been a glorious sunny week in Britain — it feels as if summer is finally here. As Andy Murray was winning Wimbledon, temperatures on Centre Court exceeded 40˚C in the sun. Northern Ireland has been hotter than Cancun. The papers have begun their annual drip-feed of stories about ‘tombstoning’ — young people throwing themselves from cliffs and bridges into water.
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Rupert Darwall is the author of The Age of Global Warming – A History. He appears on this week’s ‘View from 22’: go to spectator.co.uk/podcast
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