Can you justify this?

Any room for Aesthetically/qualitatively ?

Mind you, there’s so much stuff out there it really depends on what we are watching…

I think directing, acting and writing is generally of a high standard, editing seems to be suffering

Then you look at some first episodes that really work - it is difficult but that’s no excuse for not getting it right

The text of Bridget Phillipson’s speech: labour.org.uk/updates/pres...

Bridget Phillipson speech at Labour Party Conference 2024 – The Labour Party

Bridget Phillipson MP, Secretary of State for Education, speech at Labour Party Conference 2024: Thank you Conference, and thank you Zahida. I owe you so much. More than I could ever say. More than I ...

Yep

The implication is a professional never switches off… but, I’d suggest, a professional tends to be in charge of their time and how they do things - are ‘responsible’ far more than a lot of teachers are expected to be?

So much of teaching is about what goes on in the mind - the exhaustion of never really switching off. The ‘visible’, as you say, menial, aspects of it are a part of it though sometimes the part that a manager wants to increase in the name of some new initiative…

Both sides in the ‘culture wars’ want more critical thinking taught in schools. I think this is because left and right believe that their views will survive the scrutiny whilst their opponents ideas will be crushed by logic. If they’re both right, what then?