Bingo! It was a red-letter day for the BBC, as UK temperatures finally passed the 40° milestone so long heralded. The Corporation had a disappointing day on Monday, when it reported the highest temperature had “registered 38.1°, which is a record for this year”. That anticlimactic qualification was clearly a hasty substitution for the news the Corporation had hoped to broadcast. Tuesday, however, brought joy unconfined to the alarmist broadcaster, until its overblown staff had to put away the party poppers and don black cowls and scythes to scare the public.
