iona 🐝Maybe it's me, but it feels like there's been a trend lately in the UK press, particularly the tabloids, of describing ordinary weather patterns as coming "from" somewhere.
The recent snow came "from Siberia". The hot spell over the past week was "African".
To me, it feels like a subtle attempt by the right-wing press to reinforce the notion that we're constantly being assaulted by the "other". It's foreign, and therefore bad. On its own, no big deal, but it's a drip-drip-drip...
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