No longer at ease? Sunbathers in Brighton, 1992. Image: Martin Parr / Magnum Photos

From the August 2012 issue

Nothing causes weather anxiety like the sun

My friends, it is not our relationship with rain that defines the British character

July 18, 2012

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Edward Docx is a prize-winning novelist and former associate editor of Prospect

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