Danny Palmer
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Cybersecurity journalist and technology writer. Welsh. SE London. AuDHD.
Also likely to post about games, rugby, F1, wrestling, history & the cat.
I have a Simpsons reference for every occasion.
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!["Helen A was intended to be a caricature of then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[4][5][2] Hancock stated that she "hate[d] Mrs Thatcher with a deep and venomous passion".[3] In 2010, Sylvester McCoy said that the production team was "a group of politically motivated people and it seemed the right thing to do. [...] Our feeling was that Margaret Thatcher was far more terrifying than any monster the Doctor had encountered." Andrew Cartmel, the story's script editor, said that he "was very angry about the social injustice in Britain under Thatcher" and was "delighted that came into the show."[4][5] The Doctor calling on the drones to down tools and revolt was intended as an allusion to the 1984–85 miners' strike and other industrial disputes in then-recent memory.[5] Most of this element was eventually toned down"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:elnbwcdlrjj4ot26olansut2/bafkreicoo7v3s6pxc3vtwupkcz4zpfsd5f62mwno5r3vttooi3ws5zlksu@jpeg)
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