Britain’s hospitals, schools and homes need to be fitted with air conditioning ahead of expected rises in global heating, the government’s climate advisers have said. With temperatures forecast to exceed 40C in all parts of the UK by 2050, a new report from the Climate Change Committee warns that the country is “built for a climate that no longer exists today and will be increasingly distant in years to come”.

What else is in the report?
Of the many climate threats examined, “extreme heat is certainly the most deadly” and requires the “need to see cooling rolled out at scale”, said Julia King, chair of the CCC’s adaptation subcommittee. The report recommends that air conditioning be installed in all care homes and hospitals within the next 10 years, and in all schools within 25 years. And exams should take place at cooler times of year.

The advisers also say the government should set a maximum temperature for working indoors and outdoors, as do a range of other countries. In Spain, the maximum legal working temperature indoors is 27C for sedentary work and 25C for light physical work. The report warns that failure to take the necessary steps to protect people from overheating could cause deaths from heat-related illnesses to rise to 10,000 a year by 2050.

Global warming will also lead to more erratic rainfall, flash flooding and droughts. Seven million UK properties are currently at risk of flooding; that could rise by 40% by 2050 unless action is taken. Sea levels will rise too, threatening coastal areas, and higher temperatures would put domestic food production under threat.

How much would the changes cost?
The advisers estimate that their recommendations would cost roughly £11 billion per year, split between the public and private sectors. But every £1 spent would yield about £5 in benefits, according to the committee. 

Inaction could have a political cost. The government risks “stoking support” for populist politicians if it doesn’t step up efforts to adapt to hotter temperatures, according to Sam Alvis, from the left-leaning IPPR think tank. “When increasingly severe and frequent climate impacts strike, populists are quick to exploit public anger over a lack of preparation, using it to advance their own agenda and weaken support for climate action more broadly,” he told The Times.

Many questioned whether Pep Guardiola could hack the rough and tumble of the Premier League when he became Manchester City’s manager a decade ago. Could his brand of “tiki-taka” football, refined in Barcelona and developed at Bayern Munich, cut it on a cold Tuesday night in Stoke?

Today, his record speaks for itself: six Premier League titles, the Champions League, three FA Cups, five League Cups, the Uefa Super Cup and the Fifa Club World Cup. He is the second-most decorated manager in Premier League history, behind Sir Alex Ferguson. So rumours of his departure at the end of the season have kicked off a media storm.

‘Level of tactical complexity has soared’
Guardiola has “created a legacy that has changed the face of football at every level in England”, said BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty. At City, he “has not just shaped elite football”, he’s “had an impact at every level down to grassroots, where even junior coaches adopt his strategies”.

His successes are “embedded into the very foundation of the game in England”, said The Sun. Even semi-professional teams now play out from the back. Goalkeepers will pass into danger rather than go long. The rigid formations of old are gone. Defenders sometimes play as strikers. “The level of tactical complexity has soared.”

‘Lingering question’
City’s Abu Dhabi ownership has “more than got its money’s worth” with Guardiola, said The Independent’s Miguel Delaney. But “the one purely football caveat in Guardiola’s sensational record” is that “he’s never really had to work anywhere where he’s had to compromise”. He had Lionel Messi in his prime, took charge of an already Treble-winning Bayern and enjoyed immense resources at City.

There’s also a “lingering question” about how City acquired its “bludgeoning power”, said Oliver Brown in The Telegraph. The seemingly never-ending Premier League investigation into 115 charges of financial irregularity has loomed over the club. “For years Guardiola has had to deny suggestions of an asterisk being placed alongside their achievements.”

And Arsenal’s Premier League victory after City’s 1-1 draw at AFC Bournemouth last night showed that Guardiola “can no longer usurp his one-time protégé Mikel Arteta at the top of the table”, said ESPN. But finding a new Man City manager “will be no easy feat”, said The Athletic. Enzo Maresca has been tipped to fill his shoes. Guardiola has “set the standard so high, both for fans of Manchester City and for those of us judging from the outside, that anything short of sustained brilliance could easily seem underwhelming”.

A resident waters his garden under a plume of smoke from a wildfire in nearby hills in Simi Valley, California. Evacuation orders have been issued to more than 28,000 people in the area since the blaze began on Monday.

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Cannes Film Festival has been a “launchpad for Hollywood blockbusters” from “Top Gun: Maverick” to “Killers of the Flower Moon”, said The Times. But in its 79th year, a “strange thing has happened”: it’s once again all “about the art”. Major studios wary of rocking the box-office boat with negative early reviews are shunning the French festival, and the 2026 line-up is instead filled with indie collabs. Here are some of our top picks.

Fatherland
Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski’s film about “exile and betrayal” is “an impossibly elegant, poised historical vignette”, said Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. Shot in “lustrous monochrome” by Lukasz Zal, it follows German novelist Thomas Mann as he returns home to Frankfurt with his daughter in 1949, having fled the Nazis before the war, “for California exile”. But the Germany that they go back to is “dead”.

Hope
Na Hong-jin’s sci-fi horror is “crazy good” fun, said David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter. From the opening scenes, it’s clear you’re “in the hands of an assured genre auteur”. Police are called to a remote village in South Korea where “vicious slaughter” has left a “bull dead in the middle of the road”. As officers try to hunt down the mysterious predator, viewers are treated to “set piece after kickass set piece”.

Fjord
This “magnificently controlled yet blood-boiling drama” stars Sebastian Stan and Renata Reinsve as a devoutly religious Romanian couple who move their young family (pictured above) to a remote Norwegian village, said Robbie Collin in The Telegraph. But their “strict attitude to discipline raises their neighbours’ hackles” and they find themselves “sucked into a serpentine child protection nightmare”.

Matt Brittin has taken the helm of the supertanker BBC, but there are plenty of icebergs in his way
Jane Martinson in The Guardian
In “a world of on-demand entertainment, fake news and internet slop”, the BBC faces “huge hazards”, writes Jane Martinson. New boss Matt Brittin, formerly of Google, seems keen on “emerging technologies” and has called for a “sense of urgency” in adopting positive change. But there are worries about “his lack of editorial experience”, given the recent controversies involving “editorial or cultural mistakes”. To survive, the BBC needs “editorial that upholds truth”. It “will be hard, but its survival depends on it”.

Donald Trump’s latest scheme could be the most corrupt act in American history
Mikey Smith in The Mirror
The US president “is setting up a billion dollar ‘slush fund’ to hand cash to his allies”, writes Mikey Smith. After suing the Internal Revenue Service for leaking his tax records, Donald Trump is using a $1.776 billion settlement to “pay out compensation to people” he claims “were wronged by the justice department”, including the 6 January rioters. He’s “telling people ‘if you commit crimes for me, you will not only not face punishment, you will be rewarded’”.

I gave up drinking. Don’t call me teetotal
Owen Matthews in The Spectator
Teetotallers are “buzz-killing squares”, writes Owen Matthews. I hate their “pitying looks” and “early departures from the dinner table”. Yet I’ve also “recently mounted the wagon”, because “my body can no longer cope” in “the land of the drunk”. I’ve realised that “constant boozing is a thief of time, a destroyer of one’s life force”. I am still a hedonist at heart. “But if one’s life is to be truly devoted to joy and gratification, booze is not a friend.”