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If you thought Channel 4 had no depths left to sink to, you reckoned without Go Back To Where You Came From. This asinine mini-series attempts to make people who disagree with the daily arrival of illegal immigrants look callous and moronic. It’s poverty tourism served with a sniggering side-bar of “aren’t these people plebs?”
Three Brits were sent to a refugee camp in Somalia and three roughed it in a bijou bombed-out building in Syria (even though most small-boat folk hail from war-free Albania). Four of them were belligerently anti-illegal immigration – like most voters; the other self-righteous pair could have come straight from an SWP rally. We were supposed to be shocked when blunt-speaking Nathan, a Barnsley haulage company boss, branded a run-down Mogadishu market street “a s***hole” – even though it was.
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On the “progressive” team, posh Mathilda wanted no immigration controls whatsoever, while Bushra Shaikh – ex-The Apprentice and notorious for antisemitic posts – ranted about Boris Johnson joking (seven years ago) that burqas make women look “like letter boxes”.
“It’s humour and jokes like that that needs to be taken away,” she fumed. Give Keir another year and it will be.
The show is inherently dishonest. We know parts of the world are hellholes but nobody discussed the phenomenon of economic migrants posing as refugees or questioned the legitimacy of people arriving in Dover from the safe-haven of France. Nobody mentioned that Syria was a French mandate until 1945.
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Dave, a cook from Nottingham, wept as he watched children scavenge in bins. But it’s perfectly reasonable to feel compassion for people without concluding it’s Britain’s responsibility to provide housing, education, health care and welfare payments to the rest of the world.
The six will return home via people-smuggling routes. Which will prove what? That dinghies aren’t ideal transport for the high seas? Who knew?
This was the TV equivalent of clickbait, unsubtle, shallow, and disingenuous. It’s been years since C4 made space for genuine alternative views. Without Walls featured opinionated documentaries by everyone from Auberon Waugh to even me. J’accuse dined out on sacred cows – Christopher Hitchens on Mother Teresa, Brian Sewell on Leonardo da Vinci etc. These shows challenged TV’s narrow liberal consensus. Why not revive both?
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Charismatic Luca Marinelli gives depth, menace, and a dollop of absurdity to Il Duce as he founds his fascist movement and his own newspaper. “Follow me, you’ll love me too,” he coos. “You’ll become fascists.” Probably not.
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Sometimes Marinelli is terrifying, sometimes cowardly. He clashes deliciously with Russo, his sidekick, and Margherita, his mistress, and breaks the fourth wall to slyly leer “Make Italy Great Again!” Because he’s like Trump you see.
Except he isn’t. In many ways this version of Il Duce as a pathetic/psychotic clown is closer to PG Wodehouse’s spoof fascist Roderick Spode than the real Mussolini.
There’s a clear message for modern politicians though: ride roughshod over the will of the people and reap an unwelcome whirlwind.
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Boris Becker is also here. The tennis star thought prison was tough. Now he’s stuck in a baking hot Central American jungle with Shirley Ballas and Mel B. Will his punishment never end?
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