Our once-mild climate is increasingly extreme – and how we talk about it is now another front in the culture wars, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Our once-mild climate is increasingly extreme – and how we talk about it is now another front in the culture wars, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Weather forecasts once gave Britons something safe to chat about. Not any more, and that’s a problem for the experts – indeed, for all of us, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett