The Crazy World of OfQual

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Roger Taylor of Ofqual The Crazy World of Arthur Brown


I had just sat down to write that I had found a nice morsel in todays Guardian G2 about Arthur Brown; he of the Crazy World, when I suddenly heard that the powers that be had climbed down over the exam-grade debacle under the weight of widespread protest, pressure from the Tory back benches [and some dissent from within the Government itself] and the moral high ground occupied by the Celtic nations surrounding them.

In a fashion by now typical of this benighted administration [we really should not be expressing any surprise at this late juncture] the person tasked with the grovelling retraction, too-late lukewarm apology and enduring the public humiliation was not the Education Secretary, still less either the Home Secretary or the PM; [but then the PM is excused games as he has a letter from someone] but Roger Taylor from Ofqual, the quango given charge of educational matters by the government itself. The very government and Prime Minister who approved both the modus operandi and the outcomes of those processes they themselves sanctioned. The government and Prime Minister who insisted that the processes and their results were 'robust' and then steadfastly refused to brook any change to those outcomes, despite the gross unfairness shown to the state education sector and the blatant positive bias towards the private; public schools in particular.

I think that Arthur Brown should be chasing Johnson's crew through the civil courts for copyright infringement over their ripoff of his trademark and applying it to themselves and our poor old country. The Crazy World of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson doesn't quite trip off the tongue, but there's not really a better way to describe Britain in 2020. Maybe he should take a leaf out of Arthur's book and set his head alight.

Meanwhile, Mr. Brown [the sensible one here] has a new single out, at the age of seventy-eight. Nice one.  


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