Is this the hill? Is this the kirk? Is this mine own countree?

[steepholm]

Well, I've finally made landfall. Yesterday my final class was taught, and (since I will be on research leave in the autumn semester) I will not have to teach another until 2022. Of course, there's a lot of marking between where I am now (still sloshing about on the foreshore with saltwater in my sea boots) and the chalky uplands where I can

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[puddleshark]

"Like the Tories But Less So"

Exactly. You have to have some personal charisma to bring off that washed-out Tory look. I was thinking that, to counteract the Boris the Clown effect, Labour needs to recruit someone scarier for their next leader - someone with Bond villain or Lord Vetinari vibes.

Hope all goes well for your travel plans later in the year.

[steepholm]

Lord Vetinari would certainly be more effective than Sir Drear.

[sartorias]

Never heard of that show. Very curious!

[steepholm]

It's on Netflix, at least in the UK. It's a kind of anthology show, where the same girl (Nanno) is a student in a different high school every week, at each of which there is some bad shit going down - either from staff, pupils or both. I don't want to say too much more, because there is some degree of spoiler potential (though nothing drastic).

It's not that every episode is a banger, because it's actually fairly uneven, but it goes in directions I've never seen a Western (or even Japanese) show take, and that's very refreshing. Do give it a try, and let me know what you think! Maybe the first and second episodes in the first season, and then try the first in the second season, to give you a good sense. The order isn't really crucial, except in the case of a couple of two-parters.

[sartorias]

Found it! Will give it a try.

[sartorias]

And I gave it too episodes, an extra in case the first was an outlier. Uh, no. Not For Me.