Know Your Enemy

"If the cat wasn't dead, I'd have killed it by now".

After being caught up in a potential diplomatic crisis thanks to bungling Canadian Transport Minister John Baird, aide Dimitri Soudas won't be mourning the death of Baird's beloved moggy Thatcher.

All very The Thick Of It, n'est-ce pas? (And that's one problem with Iannucci's show - razor-sharp it might be, but the truth is often as ridiculous as his fiction, if not more so...)