Wonder if Brits can still enjoy rewatching the old 80s Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, or even The Thick of It.
Is it harder to watch now, or easier as sort of nostalgic escapism?
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‘Yes, Minister’ is quasi-libertarian Tory propaganda in disguise. Some of the only conservative comedy that has ever made me laugh.
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Meh. This is a silly reading of the show. Good writing is good precisely because it tends to break out of any ideological objectives the author has. If it doesn’t it is a literary failure like Ayn Rand. YPM is satire first, ideology second, and propaganda only to the paranoid.
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The evidence that it is deliberate propaganda is conclusive.
Having come to understand its moves, they are now bold print to me.
AND I still thoroughly enjoy it.
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