The West Wing remains amongst the worst things to ever happen to British politics. And I should know – I can still recite that speech in Latin.
First, there's the parliamentary assistants who non-ironically put 'chief of staff' on their LinkedIn profiles as if printing off the Commons order paper every day makes them Leo McGarry. Then there's the belief which somehow still lingers that a well-delivered speech (alongside light string music) can make grizzled political adversaries weak at the knees.
