The 'curse' of The Thick Of It...

[Joe K]

...runs on.

After the digital playground and community banks are eerily reprised in real life (whatever that is), we now see this week's episode, entirely devoted to a Westminster enquiry, coming out just before George Entwistle is grilled by MPs over the Newsnight/Savile affair, a process which is unlikely to leave a dry seat in the House.

Is it too much to hope that this synchronicity might herald a genuine shake-up at the Beeb, which even a lefty like me views as being 'out there' with their right on politics, while BBC management could give the old politburo a run for their money?

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I certainly noticed the 'community bank' eposode the day before the government announced an equally ill-thought-out plan. I don't remember the 'digital playground'.

The Thick of It is on the ball, in a way that Yes, Minister never was.

[Joe K]

It was that 'I call you App' thing, if I remember the phrase correctly. In the first episode of the series, I think.

I also think that we're only just beginning to understand what a brutal world politics is, with people selling their grannies to be in charge of a dungheap. Certainly more Andrew Mitchell than Sir Humphrey. Mind, the former is an MP, not a civil servant, and we the public will elect some real tossers, and/or wastes of space...