Identity Crisis: Ben Elton

Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage.

A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups. Lost in a blizzard of hashtags, his already complex investigation is further impeded by the fact that he simply doesn`t `get` a single thing about anything anymore.

Meanwhile, each day another public figure confesses to having `misspoken` and prostrates themselves before the judgement of Twitter. Begging for forgiveness, assuring the public "that is not who I am".