It’s not often that actors talk sense or deviate from liberal-left orthodoxies when speaking on politics, so when they do so, we ought to take notice. And when a thespian makes not one, but two, reasonable points in a single interview, it’s really time to sit up and pay attention.

To borrow the hideous jargon of hyper-liberalism, it can plausibly be argued today that anti-white and anti-male prejudice have both become ‘systemic’

To borrow the hideous jargon of hyper-liberalism, it can plausibly be argued today that anti-white and anti-male prejudice have both become ‘systemic’

In an interview in the latest edition of Radio Times, Christopher Eccleston, best-known for his starring roles in Doctor Who, Our Friends in the North and Hillsborough, talks of ‘a great trend in drama at the moment for antagonists who are toxic, white, apparently heterosexual, late-middle-aged men.’

This trend isn’t particularly new, of course. The worlds of stage and screen have forever had an abundance of toxic, white middle-aged men playing villains – with memorable performances from Alan Rickman, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman and the like – and it’s not as though Eccleston is seeking to defy this trend: in his new Netflix series, Unchosen, he plays the leader of a sinister........

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