• A-LEVEL gerry­mand­ering regarding who gets a university place is not “levelling up”.

“Who is official and who is unofficial these days?

“It all depends on your point of view. It’s all so vague and changeable… Today I’m unofficial, tomorrow, hey presto! I’m official. Or maybe vice-versa – who knows? The chairman decided that this voluble individual was not only unofficial but had no business to be there.”

– Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (1938).

MIKE BOR
St George’s Fields, W2