Instead, the education secretary, Gavin Williamson, and his team of ministers chose to take the lockdown as an extended furlough period. And his plan for getting all children back to school in September was to announce that all children would be going back to school in September. It was such a brilliant plan, he couldn’t think why no one had thought of anything like it before. At times like these, it was far better to pretend that everything was going to work just fine rather than concentrate on the details. His plan to get all children back in school in September was still to get all children back in school in September.

Source: The Guardian July 02, 2020 18:10 UTC