Titter Ye not

A new theory has been put forward by modern scientists. They blame, wait for it, climate change for the fall of the Roman Empire. In an article for the magazine Science, a group of eminent academics writes: ‘Increased climate variability from AD 250-600 coincided with the demise of the of the Western Roman Empire.

Read more: Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail.



That would make the met office chief scientist, Julia Slingo, Senna the Soothsayer

Woe, woe and thrice woe