I respectfully disagree. As well as bureaucracy, it treated topics such as the old boys network, the class snobbery and small-c conservatism of Sir Humphrey, co

I respectfully disagree. As well as bureaucracy, it treated topics such as the old boys network, the class snobbery and small-c conservatism of Sir Humphrey, corruption, gender equality, denuclearisation, smoking, and financial elites - all of which would be welcome in critiques of Thatcher’s government. I find it a masterful equal-opportunity offender. I also don’t think it tries hard to put forward a particular policy position. Above all else, it is a show about the process of doing politics, rather than being overtly political itself.