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Mick Harper
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Code 37: Sex Crimes (More 4). I think it's probably time to close Belgium down.
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After ten minutes of Midsomer Murders I didn't just stop watching, I deleted it. I understand I've passed some sort of cultural milestone but I'm not going to pretend it was easy. In fact I 'recovered' it later using the Recording Hiccups button and watched a bit more. There's always a next time.
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Years and Years (BBC1)

Ongoing problems. The Nigella Farage figure threatens to disenfranchise everybody with an IQ below 70. Shock horror? Well no, not really, since that's only one per cent of the population, and most of them cannot or would not vote. There are no figures as to who they do or would vote for, but none of the rest of us (oh, yes, my IQ is well over 70, don't you worry about that) would vote for a party that obliged us to sit pointless IQ tests. Now if they made it over 180 I could vote for myself and...

The next thing is “Socialist Spain”. It is made clear that every deviant (I use the word in the nicest possible way) is heading for Spain because they accept them and France, Germany and everyone else won’t. I don’t want to worry Spanish socialists but your regime is not going to last very long because Spaniards, socialist or otherwise, won’t like having their country overrrun by foreigners nobody else will take. But good luck anyway, somebody’s got to do it. The Mensch of La Mancha.

My overbeef though is with dystopian futures in general. Ninety-nine per cent of all human societies have been either the same or marginally better four years hence. In ninety-nine per cent of science fiction futures, it’s worse. Of course I accept this has to be the case for dramatic purposes but it does rather feed into this idea -- so beloved of both left and right -- that everything is always going to the dogs, when ninety-nine per cent of the time it isn't. [Figures correct at time of writing.]
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The thing about socialist utopias is that history teaches us net migration is outwards not inwards. Despite the best efforts of the elite comrades to keep folks in.

If Trump was that bad he wouldn't need a wall.

Hang on, maybe that's it. DT is building to keep folks in. Fascist B'stard.
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Isn't it about time Genesis/Phil Collins rereleased Illegal Alien?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61hzuGGJX0
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Summer of Rockets (BBC2)

Sanity has returned. After a lifetime of Steven Poliakoff rendering interesting times into boring television, last week's opener crackled with life and energy. This week we have slowly been watching the quirkiness of the characters getting in the way of the interesting times once more. The problem is an AE one: nobody at the BBC has the bottom to tell the Revered One to stop disappearing up his own bottom.
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Wile E. Coyote wrote:
Isn't it about time Genesis/Phil Collins rereleased Illegal Alien?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61hzuGGJX0


It's racist now. They refuse to ever play it.
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Years and Years

The problem is that it is an irritating middling Dystopian comedy that is neither bleak enough to move me... or funny enough to make me laugh.
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Bad Blood (Netflix) (2nd Series)

Not surprisingly Canadian crims are spectacularly incompetent. So, you and your oppo are armed with Uzim (the plural of Uzi) and need to take out two dudes who live in a house in the forest with no defences of any sort. So you walk up to said house and start spraying it with said Uzis. O Canada! Did you not know the chances of actually hitting one, never mind two, individuals randomly placed in a fair-sized house is about a million to one? And it takes an Uzi twenty-eight minutes to fire off a million rounds even assuming you've brought that many along with you (and I'm not even going to explore the question of overheated barrels).

And did you not know that within a few seconds rather than twenty-eight minutes the said two people you're trying to kill will pick up their Pfnagel 44's (that's the plural of Pfnagel 44) and fire back at you and since you're standing in the middle of their lawn like a right couple of dorks firing off your Uzis, you're going to be brown bread before anyone can say 'Toronto Raptors 1 Golden State Warriors 0 in the NBA Finals' (Sky Sports)? As good as the first series.
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I appreciate comedy is a personal thing but you don't have to personally laugh at a comic to understand their general stature. Thus when the panel of comics judging Britain's Greatest Comic (BBC Gold) puts Eddie Izzard behind Kathy Burke one is entitled to say, "I didn't know Kathy Burke was a comic." But when, next, they put Stuart Lee behind her as well one is entitled to throw the telly out of the window.
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Colonel March Investigates (1953) Talking Pictures Channel

Colonel March runs the 'Department of Queer Complaints' and he has to investigate three strange crimes.

I think Alan Turing was probably one of them.
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A Victorian Scandal: The Rudest Book in Britain (BBC4)

I was obliged to watch this because of the presence of that fabulous figure of fun, Annie Besant, but had to give up after the historians presenting the programme announced for the twenty-fourth time that they were overturning orthodoxy and then proceeded to repeat the orthodoxy laid down at least fifty years ago. That's the one about the Victorians not being prudes really etc etc and was mainly evinced by showing a) Queen Victoria in old age (looking a bit frumpy) and then b) the 'real' Queen Victoria at a young age (looking quite attractive).

Needless to say the central point of the programme, a book about contraception getting the 'trial of the century' treatment, demonstrated quite unequivocally that the Victorians were as hyper-prudish as we thought they were.fifty years ago. If only we could give our historians 'the trial of the century'.
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Your Potted Guide To The English Civil War

Alice Roberts: But Charles must have had some kind of a plan to win the Civil War the following year.
Civil War Specialist: Oh yes, he intended to sweep the Roundheads into the sea.
Alice (in shocked tones): That was the plan?
Academic (in a very firm voice): That was the plan.


Britain's Most Historic Towns Episode 4: Civil War Oxford (Channel 4)

Dear old Alice is the Professor of Public Understanding of Stuff so she might have sought out an Oxford don who knew at least a little bit about the Civil War. Since this year (i.e. 1642) Charles had been beaten back at the Battle of Edgehill, he knew the one thing he would never be able to do the following year, or any other year, was to sweep the Roundheads into the sea. He might still have won the war but not that way. Nor did he ever attempt to.

Then Ms Roberts showed us how to play real tennis in doublet and hose. With what accuracy I cannot say.
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There is the problem. All TV docs have to be attention grabbing. So sweeping statements about sweeping roundheads will always be the norm.

You have to stop your viewers flicking over to Masterbake.
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You could look at the positives, there is a lot of good battlefield archaeology that Edgehill happened.

Here we have Dan the History Man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOGzsBElYFE

A school class asks Dan what the English would have needed to do to win the battle of Hastings.

Dan, who is pretending that he/we actually know where the still disputed site is, then says that the English would have had to maintain their shield wall all day or....kill King William.

You couldn't make it up.

Hang on. Dan just did. To an audience of School children!
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