Medders at Large: It’s not like it was when I was a boy and real men wore long pants to work

Adult men have been freed to wear shorts in public when not on holidays or playing sports, apparently even in the office.

David Medcalf
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‘The world has changed,’ said Medders glumly.

‘Oh dear. Are we going to have another morning of global warming gloom?’ Hermione looked up anxiously from her magazine. ‘Allow me to state hereby I agree with you one hundred per cent that the world is poised to burn in hell. So it is not I you need to persuade that Ryanair is an agent of The Devil and that artificial fertiliser is the crack cocaine of agriculture. I am already on board, a fully paid up member of the Carbon Zero Club.’