10. Malcolm's frighteningly intense private chat with Terri. "I used to be the fucking pharaoh…"
9. Malcolm's crocodile tears for newspaper staff: "I know that these are hard times for print journalists. I mean, I read that, on the internet."
8. Malcolm turning on the charm with a widow: "Could I have a photograph taken with you? I've got a little collection of memories, you know: Mandela and stuff…"
7. Malcolm's deranged threat to track down and break the fingers of phone-in caller "Tim in fucking Ruislip".
6. Posh boy Phil showing the opposition's true colours. Peter Mannion: "So, what are you saying, it's wrong to send your child to a comprehensive?" Phil: "Yeah, wrong. Or at least very, very careless."
5. Malcolm's reaction to getting a birthday cake decorated with the words 'Happy birthday c*nt': "This could be from anyone."
4. Opposition spin doctor Stewart Pearson's barrage of buzzwords: "I like the plasmic nature of your data modelling", "Let's imagineer the narrative", "What's the weather like over at the Guardian? How do we counter-massage?", "Knowledge is porridge".
3. Malcolm's solution to a printer paper jam: "I don't know... Kill a kid an hour until it sorts itself out?"
2. Malcolm's sacking. A brutally shocking dramatic moment. We will fucking see him again…
1. The return of shadow minister Peter Mannion – the Mannionator – and his new Tory spin chief Stewart Pearson ("Greed is bad. Money is awful"): used sparingly but used well. It bodes well for the next series.
Best swearing
"I think we should use the carrot and stick approach, yeah. You take a carrot, you stick it up his fucking arse, followed by the stick" – Malcolm.
Best insult
"I really enjoyed your novel ... way of writing a fucking awful story" – Malcolm to a hapless Guardian journalist.
Best description of Malcolm
"You're looking very dapper, by the way, you're looking very nice, like as if there'd been a Scottish James Bond" – John Duggan to Malcolm.
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