[Devongone]

What you miss Dancing is that both men and women can be intelligent and the shittest leaders imaginable. Jeremy Corbyn is an intelligent man, but he was a fairly rubbish Labour Leader. Mrs May isn't completely stupid, but she got just about everything wrong. Winston Churchill achieved very little at school, but despite doing several things to make the working class hate him, he has gone down in history as the leader we needed. Hitler failed at everything, was even classified as the most ordinary of artists, but he changed the world, having nearly ruled it. If you lack brain power you end up doing a degree in Estate Management, you don't get to drive tutors mad studying Classics. On the other hand being able to read Ancient Greek is little use when faced with a crisis in which scientific understanding helps and decision making ability is certainly required. Intelligent men get loads of stuff wrong.

Ironically Dominic is so powerful because Boris knows he himself has shortcummings. As London Mayor he surrounded himself with advisors. The trouble for Boris is that the man who is supposed to handle the problems has caused the problems ……. so how did we think he'd advise Boris to act?

The thing is if Dominic Cummings is the wrong man, how many others are there like him in and around the Cabinet? Is it likely he's Boris's only wrong 'un? Their one scientist, Ms Coffey, received a public bollocking for expressing her opinions. And when choosing scientists to follow they picked Professor Ferguson whose models have been getting it massively wrong since the 1990s. And then he discovered shagging.

Me, I listen to Sir David Speigelhalter to understand the stats and the risks they portray and if I wanted a sensible overall view I'd listen to Lord Sumption, who seems to be one of the clearest thinkers in public life. The science? I'd listen to anyone who advocated locally-based, decentralised track and trace.