BBC - Shifty (2025)

This series shows in a new and imaginative way how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance. Together they undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy - that it could create a shared idea of what was real. And as that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in.

Part 1: The Land of Make Believe
The dream world that Mrs. Thatcher promised. And the ghosts that came back to disrupt it.

Part 2: Suspicion
On your own in a world of individual freedom. It's wonderful. But can you trust the old institutions? Suspicion begins to grow.

Part 3: I Love a Millionaire
Money replaces ideology as a way of ordering Britain. It was supposed to make things rational. But the money got mixed with old forces from the past. And wasn't as predictable as it seemed.

Part 4: The Grinder
Those in power begin to distrust you. Once you were a heroic individual. Now you are a creature of HR. And the prime minister is just a man in blue underpants.

Part 5: The Democratisation of Everything
Who needs politicians in a magical world of free individuals? So they give away their power. But Alexander McQueen sees what is really happening. The monstrous rise of the handbag.