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From: CAP Category: Art Date: 01 January 2010 Time: 11:28 PM Review: I was just thinking how The Sopranos perfectly reflected Bush’s Amerika for the era, and that a Brit equivalent would do the same for the Blair regime. Bliar differed from GWB in approach and substance, but was hardly less wrong or guilty. But where do you find popular entertainment mirroring his lies and evasion? His naïve belief in spin and PR? The discreet perversion of justice and governance? I’ve concluded The Office was the perfect vehicle for an ideology that promised everyone a place in middle management, blithely ignored the realities of the market and worshipped the peripheral, the disposable and ecologically unsound. The Office and The Sopranos seem odd bedfellows – but this is the challenge I’m throwing down to programme producers/writers – a marriage there would take us places we need to go now, or at least soon.