Sky One
The Wargame
There’s a moment of profound despair in Dennis Potter’s 50-year-old BBC play Brimstone And Treacle, when heartbroken father Denholm Elliott stares out of the window and prays aloud, ‘Drop the bomb!’
After watching three hours of The Real Rooneys on Disney+, I thought I knew how he felt. But the inexorable progress of The Wargame towards apocalypse, in what Nicola Sturgeon described as a ‘death spiral’ for Britain, swiftly changed my mind.
This four-part military and political exercise seemed ripe for mockery before it aired. It’s difficult to imagine the democratic malfunction that could deliver Michael Gove as PM, Ms
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