Jennie Bristow in Spiked laments plunging post-pandemic school attendance, which recently prompted the UK government to launch…an ad campaign. The social contract among schools, parents and teachers was not, however, broken by the Covid-19 lockdowns, Bristow argues. As damaging as the school closures were – resulting in 100,000 chronically truant “ghost children” – the overall problem is even larger and longer-term.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
