In last week's TV Cream Times my colleague Steve wondered whether the characters of Malcolm and Jamie in The Thick Of It liked or hated each other.
It has to be the former - albeit a liking built on immense competition, petulant point-scoring and evermore outlandish deployment of profanity. Their (initial) backing of separate leadership contenders in the most recent episode was really just an amplified playground spat. And slagging each other off - "You are a pint...pot...Judas!" - is surely a way of further unnerving whichever numerous ministerial charges are looking on. Besides, how could they hate each other *and* hate everyone else at the same time?
Anyway, I don't want them to dislike each other, because that would spoil this kind of fun:
4 weeks ago
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