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Has anyone who likes this not already binged the full box set on iPlayer?

Anyway we enjoyed it. It was bonkers, and definitely don’t poke too hard at the many, many plot holes, but there were enough games of “who really is the baddie” to keep us entertained.

That “assuming nothing else changes” is doing a huge amount of heavy lifting.

Something that I heard a few years ago really demonstrated people’s rightward political shift as they age like nothing else.

Imagine a child born shortly after the end of the Second World War, say 1948-1950. That child would have been a young adult, 18-20, in 1968. That was both the year that the hippie movement gained greatest prominence as well as the year of radical protest where young people around the world organised and fought back against corruption and repression.

Now fast forwards to 2016. Those very same post-war children are now aged 66-68. That’s the demographic that more than any other voted in favour of Brexit. I bet if you’d gone back to those young radicals of '68 and told them they were going to become bigoted, narrow-minded xenophobes they’d have laughed in your face. But it happened.

Looking at that screenshot, even though I’ve been a very happy KDE user for many years now, I do kinda miss the days when many Xfree86 desktop environments were influenced more by NeXTStep than Windows.

Ooh thank you for this. Hannah Fry is an excellent presenter and brings enthusiasm and clear explanations even to complex subjects. I’m looking forward to this new series.

Edit: for those who can’t be bothered clicking through to the Grauniad article, the programme’s called “The Secret Genius of Modern Life” and it’s on BBC2 at 8pm.