Child 4 is learning to drive. As each has been through the process, I’ve been reminded of just how terrifying and stressful the test itself is and was, even back in the day. And the more times you have to take it, the worse it gets. So why do we still put kids through this torture? Surely completing the right number of hours with a licensed instructor is a better way to judge competence than half an hour of high tension with a stoney-faced civil servant? And it’s the same, I’d say, with A Levels and GCSEs…
“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’?