"The Thick of It," 20 Years On

"The Thick of It," 20 Years On

Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker, the prime minister’s terrifying enforcer. Armando Iannucci, Peter Capaldi, and others tell the story of how the profanity-laced, pitch-black political Britcom came to be, 20 years on By Tim Jonze Twenty years ago this month we were plunged straight into the middle of an omnishambles. It was a moment in time when petrified politicians lurched from crisis to crisis, scrambling desperately to control the narrative a…