Why your future home still won't have air-con

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Good afternoon and welcome to this week’s The State We’re In. I’ve been in Japan for two weeks and have returned to see that the state of Britain is rather parched with three-quarters of England now in drought and a sixth summer heatwave looming.

Overheating homes and public buildings are fast becoming a major social and political problem in Britain.

Coming up in this week’s newsletter