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All the dumb things

12 October 2019

9:00 AM

12 October 2019

9:00 AM

‘Gee our schools are good!’ a friend once said. ‘By the time our kids are 12, they know everything!’

No prizes for guessing what sparked this reminiscence; we have just seen most of the Western world patronise a 16-year-old climate zealot who hasn’t yet learnt enough to know that she doesn’t know everything.

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