Global warming? What global warming? Predictably, the debate over whether the planet is heating up rages on, after a week in which the country was brought to its knees by snow and ice.

Some commentators suggest the weather experienced in the past week will become more common in coming years.

With that in mind, I have spent most nights this week with the radiators cranked up full blast, a fully-loaded kettle boiling every 10 minutes, the washing machine on 60 degrees and the diesel engine in my car revving to its limit in an effort to warm up the frozen part of Oxfordshire in which I live.

More frequent freezing weather? Surely it’s time to increase our carbon footprint, isn’t it?

Good on Scottish and Southern Energy for trying to educate kids on where electricity comes from. Rather embarrassing then that some bright spark at the organisation can’t spell the word.

In a patronising online cartoon called Cool Stuff, the word is spelled “electricty”.

Want a laugh? Then visit scottish-southern.co.uk/SSEInternet/coolstuff to have a look.

News of more political correctness emerges at County Hall this week after a farmer was prevented from using his tractor and plough to clear the snowy roads around Wantage because of health and safety fears by paranoid civil servants.

What utter cobblers.

With Oxfordshire County Council running out of salt fast, big-hearted Nick Cobbold, right, offered to get out and make the impassable roads of Hinton Waldrist useable as a gesture of goodwill to villagers.

His big mistake was phoning the council telling them what he was doing on behalf of a grateful community.

When he did, a right-on individual in the highways department picked up the phone and reached straight for a copy of the polictically-correct health and safety manual and told him to stop what was doing.

It wasn’t the snow that stopped Mr Cobbold clearing the roads — it was an impassable amount of red tape.

Boris Johnson is a twit. That is to say he Twitters, the latest online craze to sweep an already saturated social networking nation.

And it was a recent posting that made us chuckle.

The former MP for Henley and current Mayor of London, right, posted a message on his Twitter page telling readers: “Have spent the afternoon with TfL (Transport for London) making sure everything is prepared for the big dump tonight if it comes.”

Then the penny dropped, so to speak. A few minutes later he added: “For all those of you feeling mischievous when I said dump, I was referring to the snow.”