Israel has been spared Sally Rooney

I have not watched the BBC’s new period drama Ridley Road because I knew it would be impossible for the corporation to commission any series about anything without grafting onto it facile and usually pig-ignorant observations which suggest that history always reveals that the BBC left-liberal mindset is right about everything.

So it seems to be from reviews I have seen from the likes of Melanie Phillips and one or two others. Ridley Road concerns the 62 Group’s struggles against fascism and anti-Semitism in east London in the 1960s, and especially Colin Jordan’s National Socialist Movement (NSM). The 62 Group were ‘anti-fascists’, an amalgamation of communists and Jews and fellow travellers who combined to battle what the series suggests was a terrifying threat to democracy and the safety of Jews in the UK.

Needless to say, the fascists use language such as ‘taking back control’, drawn directly not from the times but from the vocabulary of pro-Brexit campaigners 50 years later, just so you get the point.