Reuniting the cast of Trainspotting for a new adventure 21 years on could have gone badly. The BBC’s misjudged This Life + 10, bringing the cast of the iconic 90s TV drama back together, is a case in point. But Boyle and his four musketeers give it just the right frantic, jaded energy and manic anxiety.

Here he established trading posts, and in less than a year or so all the Portugeezers were eating chutney on their beefsteaks, and calling it an Indian meal.

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Then she remembered Jalil's disgusting behaviour of the previous evening and turned to give him vinegary words.