In a famous laconic song, Noel Coward told us that 'only mad dogs and Englishmen' go out in the midday sun. Not altogether accurate, as we can see fro

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In a famous laconic song, Noel Coward told us that 'only mad dogs and Englishmen' go out in the midday sun. Not altogether accurate, as we can see from this image of a deserted observation deck of a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. The sun beats down, and the deck is deserted because even the Brits are not venturing out into the noon-time heat and sun; in any case, they're probably all eating their way through a slap-up lunch

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