Yes Minister
comedypoliticalsatire
185
Masterclass
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity
Score Breakdown
Cognitive Stimulation/50
46
Educational Value/50
48
Craft & Quality/50
44
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
A newly appointed minister discovers the civil service has an agenda of its own. The BBC series Margaret Thatcher called her favorite show — and the most accurate portrait of how bureaucratic inertia defeats political will.
Every episode teaches something true about institutional behavior that civics courses never cover.
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