Gatiss included one of Churchill's favourite expressions "Keep buggering on" (abbreviated KBO) into the script, which he was "delighted" to do.
Keep buggering on (Winston Churchill's words).
The key to celebrity redemption is the display of not-too-abject contrition, preferably to a chatshow host, mixed with regular work, balls of steel, and Winston Churchill's motto – KBO, "Keep Buggering On".
A shame they changed the name, from KBO: The Churchill Secret, when KBO (Keep Buggering On – in a Churchillian kind of way) is so much a part of it.
I bet her life didn't turn out like she expected, any more than Bridget's – and I hope that, like Bridget, she will be managing to keep buggering on, play with the cards she is dealt, and laughing with her friends, who will tell her that she's absolutely fine – just as she is.
Just keep buggering on!" I instantly warm to him.
Now we can argue as to whether or not it's more difficult to liveblog a tennis match or maintain one's equilibrium during MEET THE PRESS, but Brooks is nevertheless an example of those classic Churchillian values that say when the going is hard you should just Keep Buggering On.
Weirdly, he kept calling turnips "greentops" which seems a sensible enough a way to distinguish them until you discover there's a variety of swede called 'Willemsburger' - a canny wee bugger with a green top.
