I don’t know how ready you are to take on board more true-life tales of man’s inhumanity to man? But if you can bear a little more reality, Philomena writer Jeff Pope’s dramatisation of reformed neo-Nazi Matthew Collins’ efforts to infiltrate and derail one of the UK’s most threatening far-right groups is one of the best investments you can make with your dwindling resources.
The opening episode of The Walk-In (ITV) is bookended by two terrible events. The first is the attempted murder, with a machete and hammer, of Sikh dentist Dr Sarandev Bhambra in 2015 by Zack Davies, who yelled “White power” as he launched his attack. The second is the murder of Jo Cox MP outside her constituency surgery in 2016 by Thomas Mair, who shot and stabbed her multiple times while shouting “This is for Britain” and “Put Britain first”.
