5th December Rishi's Rachel Riley remedy


In what many people might describe as a moment of numerical madness, Rishi Sunak has revealed his plan to transform the UK economy by turning all teenagers into versions of Rachel Riley. Not I hasten to add via genetic manipulation or cloning but rather by making math (or even maths) compulsory at school until the age of 18.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Grace Under Pressure's very own innumerate investigator who strugggled to come to terms with 'counting' when letters started to enter the equation (literally), Government Minister for Sums, Al Gebra, revealed, "In this utopia land that Rishi has dreamed up, everyone will talk about Fibornacce sequences whilst queing in the supermarket and be able to correctly complete the Countdown number challenge in their heads whilst simultaneously equating how to work their TV programmer."

Fellow government maths boffin, Professor Cal Culus, added, "Alongside the ubiquitous mobile phone firmly grasped in one hand, all teenagers upto the age of 18 will use their other hand to carry a state of the art calculator as opposed to the vintage state of the ark Casio FX 82-C whose main use back in the day (if memory serves me right) was to see if you could spell the word 'Boobs' backwards."

At the time of going to press Grace Under Pressure, whilst admiring Rishi Sunak's initiative, is unable to confirm that the numbers will add up to much.



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