Cummings isn’t a genius – he was a disaster in No 10 Suggesting that Carrie Symonds was the only person criticising Cummings ignores his track record of woeful arrogance 1 May 2021 • 7:00am The application of the word “genius” has become more overstretched than a pair of Carol Vorderman’s Spanx. (IQ 154, incidentally; the mathematician, not the support underwear). Elon Musk is a “genius” even though his self-driving cars have been known to spontaneously combust. Mrs Brown’s Boys is “comedy genius”, according to the BBC, even though it is about as funny as herpes. And Dominic Cummings is a genius, except for the small, inescapable fact that he isn’t.