Katharine Birbalsingh is very, very stupid

When asked why so few girls progressed to physics A-level, despite outperforming boys at GCSE, she said: "I just think they don’t like it. There's a lot of hard maths in there that I think they would rather not do."

The research generally ... just says that’s a natural thing," she added. "I don’t think there’s anything external."

– Katharine Birbalsingh, the government’s social mobility commissioner, who is a French and philosophy graduate.

What the fuck? How can the social mobility commissioner puke up this kind of essentialist nonsense for which we have known for a very long time that there is absolutely no fucking evidence at all? All this tells us is that you don't have to be very clever to get a degree in French and philosophy, or to get a job in the current government (well, we know that second part).

I mean, seriously, what the actual fuck makes her think this?