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In practice, they merely overlap with those of the owners of small-to-medium sized businesses and lone traders who comprise the spine of the Conservative membership and vote.

Their interests are presumed to be universal, since we are all supposedly “entrepreneurs” at heart. Every “efficiency” that accelerates social and ecological breakdown is dignified by its contribution to “enterprise”, a euphemism for the profitability of the most short-termist, exploitative sectors of capital.

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Why, in short, is the only heatwave policy the Heatwave Plan for England, which proposes to control behaviour rather than update the country’s infrastructure? Wherever there has been a choice, neoliberal governments have chosen public squalor, pollution and death. The London Underground, which is uncomfortably warm at the best of times, has been known to reach 42 ☌ during a heatwave. In 2015, when London temperatures reached 36.7 ☌, the temperature on a Routemaster bus was recorded at 41 ☌. Why, for example, as the Climate Change Committee pointed out, are homes are not being built for resilience to high temperatures despite repeated warnings? Why are workplaces not air conditioned, even though Covid-19 made such upgrades necessary to prevent the build-up of viral particles? Why is there no law specifying a maximum temperature at which you can be made to work, despite the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers recommending office temperatures of 20 ☌? Why can you be baked on the way to work? The buses aren’t air conditioned, and generally offer only the scant defence of ventilation and tinted windows. We are unprepared for this, probably for the reasons that the UK is also not remotely on course to reach net zero emissions, slashed investment in pandemic preparedness, delayed Covid lockdowns at a cost of potentially tens of thousands of lives, and failed to act on warnings about the safety of Grenfell Tower. Events and Offers Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. Ideas and Letters A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section and the NS archive, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. Weekly Highlights A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday.

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As a Spanish forecaster warned at the time: “Hell is coming.” That will beat the record of 38.7 ☌ set in the 2019 heatwave that killed thousands. On Tuesday 18 July temperatures were forecast to exceed 40 ☌ in parts of the UK.

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