“Munich The Edge of War” Netflix Series
By coincidence, as all the developments about Ukraine have been hogging the headlines I´ve been watching a Netflix series called “Munich The Edge of War” which covers similar ground. It has obviously been ripped off from Ken Follett´s 20th century trilogy and follows an Englishman and a German who are great friends at Oxford and become diplomats but end up on opposite sides as the Second World War looms ahead.
No problem with that. Except that Neville Chamberlain’s top civil servant turns out to be an African and sits in at meetings of the war cabinet. Can anyone imagine this happening in 1938?
At one point the English diplomat dictates an urgent memo to the fastest secretary in the typing pool who says to him, “Before you ask. I´m from Nottingham.” No her name was not Maid Marian and I assume we were supposed to note that she was of Indian descent. However, she did not look particularly Indian either. No sari tightly wrapped round Himalayan-sized boobs, nose rings, golden bangles, floozy eyeliner or suggestive Kama Sutra pouts, alas. It turned out her uncle was some MI5 Scottish bigwig called Menzies (a name she mispronounced) so what was all that about?
Just more confirmation of the woke message to us thickies that ethnics have been around for centuries and won the Second World War.
Nominated by Mr Polly



