Andrew Dickens

The UK government’s plans to make school exams even more stressful is the latest example of a crazy global obsession with harmful and unfair testing. It’s time to create a better, more meritocratic world by dumping the whole idea.

As the government’s new careers website is ridiculed online, in a darkened Downing Street study a baffled prime minister tries it out for himself. Surely it can’t be as bad as all that?

I supported the first national lockdown but a second one would be a mistake of titanic proportions. Here’s how we can wrestle control from governments and learn to live with Covid.

Dance troupe Diversity’s BLM routine on Britain’s Got Talent has received a record number of complaints, showing how much the Right loves censorship, seeks offence and lacks self-awareness. The snowflakes should toughen up.

Covid and QAnon conspiracy theorists are hitting the headlines with some outlandish, illogical and potentially dangerous notions. But why do these people exist? Because governments and corporations act conspiratorially.

British pop icon Adele has been both attacked and defended for dressing in a Jamaican flag bikini and having her hair in Bantu knots. Is it cultural appropriation or cultural appreciation? It’s a big old mess, is what it is.

Viral videos have emerged this week of Black Lives Matter activists abusing individuals for not ‘raising a fist’. BLM is a needed and noble cause, but incidents of intimidation and harassment will do it nothing but harm.

A British historical charity has been attacked for tweeting about some of its artefacts’ links to slavery. The Middle England mob can’t handle conversation or facts, they just want the ‘glorious empire’ version of Britain’s past.

Governments are dishing out lucrative Covid-related contracts to their woefully underqualified pals. As Johnson, Trump et al waste taxpayers’ money, their cronyism and incompetence is costing lives and livelihoods.

The British once had the greatest navy in the world. Now we’re making a big deal of ‘defending’ ourselves from an imaginary ‘invasion’ of refugees in order to distract from our embarrassing collapse into economic and moral ruin.