Robin

@binthemaster.bsky.social

Relocated back to Dorset after a decade in Cardiff. Design Engineer Politics, gardening, food

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

I mean, if you're the number one team in the world you really ought to batter a team outside the top 50 but, as an England supporter, I know that doesn't always happen.

"But if we lift the two child benefit cap they won't spend the extra money on fruits, vegetables and pulses" Even poor kids deserve Monster Munch, you eel in a suit, suck my balls.