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Or, resenting managements that exploit them but don’t reward them, they resolve to join the legion of timeservers and clock-watchers.

But the adults are gone, and their replacements are mainly sycophants and timeservers who are happy to tell Trump that 2+2=22.

There remains a hapless amiability about these comedic timeservers, even if it does feel as if, laugh-wise, we are stranded in 1988.

Then, I wot the renegade Oswald, and sycophants and timeservers generally, will thrive.

I'm talking, of course, about the assorted villains and hapless timeservers in Armando Iannucci's satirical TV show The Thick of It.