Shifty

Name: Shifty
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-06-14
Rating: 5.0

Overview

This series shows in a new and imaginative way how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance. Together they undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy - that it could create a shared idea of what was real. And as that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in.

Episodes

S01E01 Part One - The Land of Make Believe

June 14, 2025 1.0 69 min

The dream world that Mrs Thatcher promised. And the ghosts that came back to disrupt it. When power begins to shift in society, everything becomes unstable, exciting and frightening. Gay Scottish Disco. Intersex dog. Mrs...

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S01E02 Part Two - Suspicion

June 14, 2025 1.0 67 min

On your own in a world of individual freedom. It's wonderful. But can you trust the old institutions? Suspicion begins to grow. Taxidermist and owl. Rupert Murdoch and the Royal Family. Mrs Thatcher and the...

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S01E03 Part Three - I Love a Millionaire

June 14, 2025 66 min

Money replaces ideology as a way of ordering Britain. It was supposed to make things rational. But the money got mixed with old forces from the past. And wasn't as predictable as it seemed. Shoes...

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S01E04 Part Four - The Grinder

June 14, 2025 67 min

Those in power begin to distrust you. Once you were a heroic individual. Now you are a creature of HR. And the prime minister is just a man in blue underpants. UFO over Surrey. Water...

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S01E05 Part Five - The Democratisation of Everything

June 14, 2025 1.0 77 min

Who needs politicians in a magical world of free individuals? So they give away their power. But Alexander McQueen sees what is really happening. The monstrous rise of the handbag. The Prince of Wales and...

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