Sweden just did something most countries are still too afraid to do.
After years of pushing tablets, screens, and digital-everything into classrooms, they’re walking it back.
More books.
More handwriting.
More paper.
Fewer screens especially for younger kids.
Why? Because reading scores dropped, concentration suffered, and the science is clear: writing by hand helps kids remember and learn better than typing on a screen.
John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson feel like the last two adults left in the room.
For years they’ve been saying the quiet part out loud: free speech matters, humour is not a crime, and a society that cannot laugh at itself is already sick.
And for that simple, decent stance they have been dragged through the cancellation machine.
These are not angry ideologues.
They are two men who just wanted to make people laugh and tell the truth.
Instead they have been treated like heretics smeared, isolated, and told to sit down and shut up by people who once claimed to love satire.
The British humour they helped create the kind that was razor sharp, fearless, and never cruel for the sake of it has almost disappeared.
That humour didn’t just entertain us.
It made us stronger. It taught us not to take ourselves so seriously. It gave us thicker skin.
Now that skin is being deliberately stripped away, and the only ones still trying to protect it are the ones the culture keeps trying to cancel.
Cleese and Atkinson never asked to be heroes.
They just refused to pretend.
And in an age of mass pretending, that alone makes them extraordinary.