Right-on rockers roll out the bum notes

OMEDIAN Lenny Bruce once said, “The truth is what is; ‘what should be is a terrible lie.” It is a dramatist’s job to deal with what is.

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I PREDICT A HOT FLUSH: Kitty (Rosalie Craig) lead Riot Women on stage

Yet time after time the BBC use our money to promote falsehoods that suit their vision of what should be. Sally Wainwright's new BBC1 series Riot Women has less dramatic truth than an episode of Spongebob Squarepants.

In Wainwright's world, all men are worthless and weak, and all women are wonderful - even when they're bonkers, like kippered Kitty who blunders through a supermarket necking neat vodka and swallowing pills snatched from the shelves. She smashes stock and brandishes a knife, terrifying the staff. So that’s criminal damage, threatening behaviour, and potential theft.

In real life, she'd be banged up in a cell until she sobered up. Here she spent the night sleeping on the couch of retiring WPC Holly who arrested her. She sympa-thised you see because Kitty is going through the menopause, which apparently justifies all of it.

Kitty then smashed up her married ex's car with a sledgehammer - presumably also covered by the menopause and 'bad men' get-out cards. (I had a platoon of great-aunts growing up and can't remember any of them dealing with “the change” via vandalism and toxic femininity.)