10 Doctor Who Moments You Didn't Get As A Kid (But Do As An Adult)
7. "I'm Hardly One Of The Babes"
There are a handful of references to real-world politics in Aliens of London and World War Three that would've gone right over the heads of kids who tuned in for the farting aliens.
Most obvious is the nod to "massive weapons of destruction" that can be deployed within 45 seconds, a not-so-subtle comment on the UK government's shaky justification for going to war in Iraq two years earlier.
More subtle, however, was MP for Flydale North Harriet Jones' statement that she's "hardly one of the babes". This was a reference to Blair's Babes, the Daily Mail's regressive name for the 101 female MPs that were elected into the House of Commons under Tony Blair's leadership in 1997.
The connections to the incumbent Prime Minister didn't stop there, either. The corpse in the cupboard which is discovered by Harriet and Rose in Aliens of London was supposed to be a Tony Blair lookalike, but when it turned out that they'd booked an unconvincing body double, the Doctor Who team decided not to show the body in great detail.
And so, Tony Blair lived to fight another day and eventually stepped down in 2007 – at which point he regenerated into David Tennant. The man's everywhere!