Certainly there have been dramatic fluctuations, as in one year when “may blossom” on hawthorns, normally out in late May, appeared in mid-April. But fortunately Paul Homewood, on his Notalotofpeopleknowthat blog, has been able to produce proper scientific evidence to tell us what has really been happening to our springs. His graphs, based on the Central England Temperature record, show that, since around 1990, despite those fluctuations, spring temperatures have averaged out to show no rising or falling trend at all.

This claim that springs are now arriving a month early is just what Costing the Earth always is: the BBC’s usual climate change hogwash.

Mrs May needs to read the small print ) - and explain what she's going to do about it

If Theresa May really wants to know what she is up against as the months tick down on Brexit, she should read a legal “Notice to Stakeholders” issued two weeks ago by the European Commission entitled “Withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU aviation safety rules”.

This sets out in four pages just how totally dependent our aviation industry is for everything it does on authorisations granted by the European Aviation Safety Agency (Easa). These apply to every tiniest detail of how we make aircraft, to the running of our airports, to air traffic control, to the airworthiness of aircraft, to the certification and licensing of pilots, cabin crews, engineers, medical staff and trainers; in short, to every last item of what allows our aviation sector to function.