For anyone interested, you can pick a location close to you from this site: https://showyourstripes.info/c/europe/germany/frankfurtammain
(Credit Ed Hawkins)

I should probably write a bot to auto-reply when someone pulls a state as a comparison.
(Or ask the resident flamingo nicely to write it 😀)

I’ll put the gist of why hot weather can be a pain in the UK so it’s in the thread, not aimed at you obviously:

• Most housing was built around coping with -5 to 25’c comfortably.
  Which for a long time meant no insulation, and a fire/wet central heating system.
  And not a damn was given about air-tightness.
• A lot of the housing pre-dates WW1
• Air conditioning was not commonplace at all when the majority of houses were built (you could argue it still isn’t)
• Heatwaves were so infrequent, it wasn’t worth the cost of installing air conditioning domestically.
• It gets muggy as hell, with the high humidity making it worse. (But again, it’s variable, so tricky to justify spending money)
• Swamp coolers don’t work due to the humidity
• Lots of people grew up with the weather being (generally) mild enough that opening a window to get airflow was enough to keep cool. (I’ve had family members open the windows on a 30’ day to “cool” my 20’ basement…)
• Leccy is expensive. This is improving with solar and plunge pricing, but most people will want to tighten up their house in other ways before spending £8/day cooling it.

With both our warming climate, and more kit being installed, things are changing, and people are adapting.
More people now understand that cooling the fabric of the house at night when it dips into the teens, then closing the windows in the morning, is a better way to keep it cool.
Building regulations stipulate significantly more insulation, air-tightness, heat gain control.
And air conditioning has dropped in price a lot.
For anyone curious, you can DIY a mini-split for about £500/room, or get a better quality one installed for under £2000.

Going back to the source, the quote is: " LIVERPOOL are the UK’s cryptocurrency connoisseurs - with one in 10 (13%) regularly investing and checking their online stocks"

I’m not sure if they’ve bundled regular market investment with crypto.

Terminal 5 was an absolute masterclass in how to deliver a megaproject.
HS2 is, unfortunately, just another magnitude of complexity. Some of it avoidable, some of it was going to be a pain no matter how much was planned.

It also doesn’t help that HS2 got massively underestimated to get political approval and shovels in the ground. (The flipside being, if it had gone with realistic estimates, it could well have been stuck in committee for until 2050)