On The Edge of Darkness

I was just prompted to google Darius Jedbergh, the Joe Don Baker character in Edge of Darkness (the 1985 version) as he turns up as a minor but influential character in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula : Johnny Alucard and I have fond memories of the character (if you don't remember or have never seen the role, it's basically the same CIA maverick Joe Don Baker plays in a couple of the Bond films). That got me reading the wiki entry for Edge of Darkness, and I was struck by

<blockquote>“I am writing this story about a detective who turns into a tree” was what writer Troy Kennedy Martin told his colleagues when asked what he was working on during the early nineteen-eighties. Kennedy Martin had become frustrated that “at the BBC there was no political dimension to their drama whatsoever” but had chosen to write a political story anyway, not really believing it would ever get made.^[ The election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Ronald Reagan as President of the United States had brought about a major shift in the global political landscape and Kennedy Martin was motivated to write out of concern arising from such issues as the Greenham Common protests, the Falklands War, unrest among the miners and, arising out of the escalation of the Cold War, the fear that “born-again Christians and Cold War warriors appeared to be running the United States”</blockquote>

That seems awfully familiar.

Doubly so given Edge of Darkness was ultimately about the Gaia Hypothesis and the planet needing to defend itself against man-made change, and Trump is a climate change denier.