Mad Dogs and Englishmen

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Yesterday England burned. We watched as houses, cars and fields were consumed by flames after the hottest day on record. The acrid smoke from the fires flooded over the M25 — the monster of a motorway that encircles London. Today, in response to the heatwave, the protest group Just Stop Oil have declared the motorway a ‘site of civil resistance against the UK government’ and has blocked some of the lanes. Which do you think is making people…