All right, so it's not as good as Life On Mars. And moving Gene Hunt to London already looks like a very bad idea, even if he really would have been addressed as "Guv" rather than "Boss" there, the one really grating thing about Life On Mars. But last night's opener certainly had its moments, even if it was set in a sort of generic Eighties - there were no yuppies as early as 1981.
Specifically, when a drug-dealing City type told Gene Hunt that what he was doing (involving heroin, cocaine and prostitution) was just another part of the type of economic system then beginning to be advocated and put into practice, he was spot on.
When the party of Disraeli abandoned everything that it had ever stood for domestically (as it had already done in foreign policy by choosing Europe and the US over the Commonwealth) and adopted what becomes of Gladstonian Liberalism when it is stripped of Christianity, then that is what it adopted.
And when Labour, having already repeated the Tory betrayal abroad, also enshrined a commitment to such economics in its Constitution, then that is what it enshrined.
Is there now any party for this country's majority of economically social-democratic, morally and socially conservative British and Commonwealth patriots? Yes, there is.
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No sign of break dancing jesus or his alter egoes for a while. I think you've defeated him with Gladstone, Disraeli, and the stuff on R D Laing and Hermann Hesse in the Maharishi post. Keep up the good work.
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