The Mediterranean has become a vast, gently simmering paella of human misery as a ‘red heat alert’ slams into southern Europe. Experts, who have clearly never visited Blackpool on a bank holiday, are calling this an ‘inferno.’ Temperatures have reached 40 degrees Celsius, which is roughly the temperature of the devil’s own jacuzzi.
British tourists, accustomed to a climate that is essentially a damp flannel left in a sink, are now being gently poached in their own factor 4.
