Government embarrassment, coalition rows, backroom deals, policy U-turns, spin- doctoring, political back-stabbing, wild media speculation, and more time spent with one's family. It can only be the eagerly-anticipated return of Armando Iannucci's sharp political satire The Thick of It. Rebecca Front and Peter Capaldi reprise their roles as Nicola Murray and Malcolm Tucker, now consigned to the opposition benches, but still desperate for power.