The classic comedy series Yes, Minister is currently being repeated on BBC4. It is, of course, a timeless political satire, as stinging and acerbic today as it was when it first aired forty years ago. Watching an episode the other night, though, I was struck by a fairly interesting question: could you remake or reboot Yes Minister? What would it look like if it was set in this chaotic contemporary era? I doubt the relationship between ministers and the civil service will have changed that much, so that aspect of the program will still be pretty pertinent. Yet what might such a remake tell us about British politics as it currently stands? I don’t know the answer to that of course, but surely it would be intriguing to find out.