Why the heatwave hysteria won’t change how I run my school
From our UK edition
Having been raised on a diet of 1950s war films, I have always admired the virtue of resilience. I was particularly influenced by a scene from The Cruel Sea (1953) that showed British Jack Tars defiantly singing ‘Underneath the spreading chestnut tree’ to keep themselves distracted as they froze in the Atlantic in nothing but an inflatable dingy. As such, I have struggled to comprehend the recent hysteria that has swept the nation, not over the threat of invasion by a malevolent foreign power but the onset of some warm, sunny days. I am the headteacher at a state-funded secondary school.
