This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Well, good morning. It's three minutes after ten, and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

Isn't it life funny at the moment? In the sense of your normal

bearings, you know, when you get your bearings, you can probably wake up. I know my children are

at the moment. I have absolutely no idea what day it is because the merging of lockdown and school

holidays has rendered and still a large number of people working from home or furloughed.

And the usual bearings, it's almost as if the stars in the sky with which we plot our course

through the daily grind have disappeared. It's strange, isn't it? My youngest ran into the room

yesterday morning. I was having a well-earned lion and shouted, Daddy, Daddy, you're supposed to be at work. I jumped out of bed, ran into the bathroom and then poked my head back out

again to find her collapsed in fits of laughter on the landing because of course she had the word

is pranked me. And then, of course, you have the very serious side of this complete confusion,

unavoidable confusion. That's the point, isn't it? So some confusion is unavoidable. Some of it

is profoundly avoidable. And it's hard to know the difference between the two. Clearly, when it was

decided not to do A a level exams this summer,

or indeed GCSEs, the some confusion became unavoidable. Unfortunately, the more you read around

how other countries, particularly European countries, have accommodated similar decisions,

the more you realize just how spectacularly we, and I'm going to say we, because I think in the first instance, it's probably quite helpful.

We have really, really messed this up. We have really messed this up. This is actually horrible.

And I wouldn't care who was in charge. I think this is one of those occasions where you

really don't bring tribal loyalties to the table. Because if it's your child, then it doesn't

matter how you usually vote. Your concern is for your child, not the reputational damage of your

favorite political party. So this is just awful. And the more read into it this weekend some journalists who've been doing incredible work include

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