Rallying cry

Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story (Channel 4, Thursday) was unquestionably the most important programme that will appear on British television this year. Yes, even more important than Downton Abbey.

The thing that really drove home just how important was the point, quite early on, where the Fawn turned to me and said, 'Ohmygod! Where do we emigrate to?' And it's not as though the Fawn has ever been one of those irksome left-liberal wives who keeps undermining her husband's thought-through right-wing wisdom with prissy right-on inanities based on nothing more solid than hormones. No, sirree.

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