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Yes Minister was a comedy show like HBO's Silicon Valley is a comedy show -- a farcical quasi-documentary Yes, Minister was fed leaks from British government t
by fjsolwmv 9y ago
Yes Minister was a comedy show like HBO's Silicon Valley is a comedy show -- a farcical quasi-documentary
Yes, Minister was fed leaks from British government that became plotlines.
- icebraining 9y agoMy favorite is the episode about the Channel Tunnel, in which the French security services plant a bomb to test the British security and gain a diplomatic gain. I thought that was completely ridiculous, just good idea for finishing up a good plot. Thirty years after, when the official papers of the time were released, what do we discover..? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/03/french-bomb-london-1984-thatcher-mitterand https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/03/french-bomb-...