Schools have been much in the news this week. For quite rightly, saying that, while they have to complete a several-page risk assessment (I remember these from my years as governor) to take kids to a local museum, they’re expected to make it up as they go along as the reopen in the midst of a pandemic. And, yes, the Scottish students were quite right to say ‘Trust our Teachers’. The nettle should be grasped and exams abolished in favour of properly-moderated teacher assessments. They won’t be of course, as enough of those in charge will have crammed their ways through their exams and so work on the ‘if it was good enough for me’, basis. Thus policy always takes two steps back for each forward-thinking reform. I’d say.
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?