IT started raining in the UK in the middle of October and hasn’t really stopped since.
The ground is sodden. Rivers have burst their banks. Farmers are desperate and we’ve all got such bad vitamin D deficiency that we are starting to look like forced rhubarb.
So when I heard they’d had a spot of rain in Dubai, my first reaction was, “Diddums!”.
Then I saw the photographs, and read the stats — and holy cow, they had 5.5in of rain in one hour.
That’s normally what they’d expect over 18 months.
The airport looked like a lake, all of those Godawful shopping malls like swimming pools and the main motorway like the Mekong.
Outside the city, the raging torrent was so …