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August 13, 2020•76 words

Gavin Williamson is worried that adjusting exam grades will result in people being promoted beyond their competence. People who have been promoted beyond their competence is something of which he has deep personal experience, being part of a government composed almost entirely of such people: notably him. If only he was smart enough to realise this.

The UK is so fucked: the only thing that prevents us being the laughing-stock of the world is the US.

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