It’s been two years since the UK’s poop-engulfed beaches became a national scandal. Now it’s even worse

It was late 2021 when James Richardson heard about England’s poop problem. “I saw a tweet talking about the extent of the problem, and the numbers were so enormous I thought it couldn’t be true – that there was so much sewage being dumped,” he says now. “I thought, ‘It’s social media, someone must be exaggerating.’ So I thought I’d look into it, because if it was true it’d be a scandal.” His research tallied with the tweet: raw sewage …