“Elections aren’t idiot-proof,” says a campaign worker as he graciously accepts a cup of coffee and continues stumping for his candidate, the current Mayor Zafar Jaffrey ( Ted Lasso ’ s Nick Mohammed ), in the opening sequence to this season’s Slow Horses . When a sour-faced young man sits down on the bench in front of him, he immediately recognizes someone hostile to his cause. “I know a lot of you are disenchanted with politics,” he says. “I was too at your age. But Mayor Jaffrey offers hope…” And with that, the stranger pulls a semiautomatic weapon out of a bag and opens fire, making the campaign worker the first of 11 people he kills before a second gunman swiftly dispatches him with a headshot.

Such a scene of mass murder and political violence rings eerily familiar in today’

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