I’m just watching Spooks (series 4 episode 3) screened in 2005, which seems remarkably prescient regarding the rise of the Brexiteers, Trumpites and Duttonites, who preach total xenophobia.
Just finished watching Season 3 of The Expanse. Another great season, really love the show. Second half of the season felt rushed, probably coz they wanted to wrap up the third book before the show got cancelled by SyFy. Luckily Amazon have picked it up for Season 4, can’t wait!
A Very English Scandal, about Jeremy Thorpe and his scandal with Norman Scott, starts next Tuesday on Foxtel.
Thorpe, played by Hugh Grant, was the leader of the English “third party”, the Liberals, in the 70s. Married to Patricia Hodge (Miss Trant from Rumpole), she was just a beard and he was having affairs with men, one of whom was Norman Scott (Ben Whishaw, the latest Q in Bond), who tried to blackmail him, so Thorpe wanted him killed, and a trial ensued.
First time I’d ever heard the term pillow-biter as Scott said he just bit into the pillow and cried during sex.
Also, why was Jeremy Thorpe like William the Conqueror?
A…they were both ■■■■■■■ Normans.