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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lucy Mangan

Digested week: Drought until October? It all feels so very 2022

Rishi Sunak during a visit to St John's Wood Synagogue
Rishi Sunak: ‘No, no honestly, I swear – it’s me or ... God, don’t make me say it again ... Liz Truss! I know! I know!’ Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AP

Monday

Ah, OK. I see. So now, not only is there no electricity, gas or petrol (by any reasonable affordable standards), no farm workers, no wheat, no viable prime minister or functioning government, no NHS beds, no rape convictions, no opposition (though Britain thanks you for your work, Martin Lewis and Mick Lynch, and hopes to see the day you stage a joint coup), there is also no water. Which has the merit of consistency at least. Drought – which we are told could persist into October – is very 2022, you know?

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