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Was actually thinking about this myself yesterday. What the show was really communicating was about the difference between Malcolm, a true-believer first-wave New Labour ideologue, and Olly, the real villain of the piece. https://twitter.com/GRANNYMUGGER/status/1021175365451034626">https://twitter.com/GRANNYMUG...
Malcolm, it& #39;s hinted at, conceives of himself as a socialist/ social democrat and is a veteran of the Thatcher Years. He& #39;s fundamentally idealistic about what the Third Way can achieve. The enda justify the means for him; for Olly, there are only means.
Malcolm would never go to a Shed Seven reunion gig, whereas that& #39;s about as cultural as Olly could be.
Also, the key episode is the one where Malcolm invites the journalists round for lunch and it turns out he& #39;s really nice and a brilliant cook, a sort of evangelist for a life well-lived. He& #39;s neither a hack nor an opportunist.
It stands in contrast to the scene where Olly and his Tory girlfriend are miserably chopping veg to make some awful student stir-fry in their Young Professionals In Clapham flat. They& #39;re emissaries for the dimished life of privatised ambition.
Anyway, Ollt& #39;s stir-fry is basically what I imagine Helen Lewis eats every night.
