Is Thomas Tuchel a secret agent sent by Friedrich Merz’s government to ruin the UK economy and education system so as to make life easier for German exporters? I know the answer to that is probably no, but I ask only because of the England manager’s extraordinary call on parents to allow their children to play truant after staying up to watch his plodding footballers muff their chances against Mexico early on Monday morning. “Write an excuse and let them watch football,” he said. “There’s so much school to go to, but the World Cup is every four years.”

The last thing workshy Britain needs is an outsider egging us on to do less work

The last thing workshy Britain needs is an outsider egging us on to do less work

The last thing workshy Britain needs is an outsider egging us on to do even less work. Actually, there is........

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