The papers usually wait until August to resort to fantasy in the headlines. But we are here already – Conservative incompetence and corruption have come to the forefront with news about the evacuation of Afghan corroborators at a cost of millions of £’s and use of a superinjunction to ensure it was hushed up. The RW Press is not happy criticising RW Governments, so will need something else to grab the headlines. The really desperate editors will conjor up something about the Windsor’s. Israel attacking yet another country in their pursuit of perpetual war will conveniently be forgotten, as will the war in Ukraine, whilst the chaos in Sudan is ignored too. Doctors strikes is a boring topic so they have to resort to a classic British topic – the weather.
I taught meteorology for 20 years and had never come up with the term ‘rain bomb’. TBH I do not think there is such a thing. Certainly what is expected over the UK over the next week cannot be described as anything unusual. There may be some thunderstorms with associated heavy rain – but nothing unusual with that. There is a yellow warning across central and eastern uk. So we can be assured that the sensationalist wording of ‘rain bomb’ is just that – sensationalist nonsense. This area is forecast to have some rain, but nothing to write about! Just enough to water the garden and fill my butts!
So what will the next few weeks bring us as headline news? BBC scandals might have been aired fully by now. Royal family shite will reappear at regular intervals, as will the Beckhams and other celebrity figures – most of whom I would not recognise by face of name! Small boats will continue to get a high profile if the weather is kind to them. BBC will continue to promote Farage and the Obnoxious Party. Maybe there will be a murder mystery (like the disappearance of Nicola Bulley in Lancashire 2 years ago). Sport offers slim pickings this summer. The Lioness’s could become cult heroes by winning the Euro, but otherwise the minority sports are becoming more minority. Golf could provide some interest if MAGA behaviour can be escalated in NY this year (state not city). Athletics continues to provide lovely people but no controversy or personalities Keely Hodgkingson exempted. Cricket, despite the attributes of Stones, et al. is a minority sport watched by the aged on pensions, and public school boys on cider! Rugby – the Lions are down south – but who really gives a shit?