The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent it's detonation.

A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.