All this creative angst and then the forced-to-be-righteous Nick Glib goes and cancels the KS1 SPaG tests for one year.

As this topsy-turvy day draws to a good close, we can only hope another cock-up has the knock-on effect of getting the KS2 tests cancelled too.

Here’s to the paradox of thanking ineptitude for triumphing over policy-making.