I am hoping the current education row is now over following an announcement at 1600 today that A-level and GCSE students in England will be given grades estimated by their teachers, rather than by an algorithm. The decision follows uproar after about 40 per cent of A-level results were downgraded by exams regulator Ofqual, which used a formula based on schools' prior grades. GCSE results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland come out on Thursday. Ofqual chairman Roger Taylor and Education Secretary Gavin Williamson apologised for the "distress" caused. On top of the problems caused by COVID-19, this is the last thing that students needed but, now that a decision has been made, I hope some calm can be restored. Regrettably, though, this could affect those applying to go to university and the universities themselves, especially is the latter has to accept more students. I think this mess again proves the risk of using modelling, which, in my view, has wrongly assessed the effect of the virus. Much to catch up on in the constituency and plan for a visit to Weymouth tomorrow by my friend and colleague Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Leader of the Commons. In other news, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was heckled by workers on a visit to a factory as anger mounts over his disputed re-election. Workers chanted "leave" and booed the long-time leader of the ex-Soviet state as he insisted he would not allow a new vote after allegations of ballot fraud. On Monday, the UK said it did not accept the results of the "fraudulent" election. "The world has watched with horror at the violence used by the Belarusian authorities," said Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab. Finally, what could be the highest temperature ever reliably recorded on earth - 130F (54.4C) - may have been reached in Death Valley National Park, California. The US National Weather Service is verifying the recording. Meanwhile, cloud and rain cover a lot of the UK.