166: You Can't Make The Grade

The Government backs down after the fiasco around A-level results, but it may be too late to save some students’ plans. But how did ministers blunder into such a catastrophe? We examine the series of Covid-related u-turns, and ask how something so obvious blindsided people at the top of Whitehall.

The row over people crossing the English Channel rumbles on — but how many of those yelling about it even know the difference between migrants and refugees?

Plus the government finds the time to declare war on virtue signalling ice cream. It’s not as if they have anything more important to get on with.

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