Political assassinations. Anti-immigration rhetoric. Woeful personal hygiene.

Welcome back to the thrilling, funny and uncannily topical world of spymaster Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) and his brilliant-but-banished Slow Horses for another six episodes of high-stakes espionage on Apple TV+.

Based on Mick Herron’s fifth Slow Horses novel, 2018’s and overseen by departing showrunner Will Smith, the new season is so topical, it could have been written last week. There’s terrorist plots, liberal and populist politicians trading blows – think Nigel Farage vs Sadiq Khan – and a British intelligence apparatus that still relies on Lamb’s broken-down spies to bail it out.

But aside from being a great – and very funny – series about spying and counter-espionage, is also a great London show. Rat

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