To most people, Peter Capaldi is best known for the Twelfth Doctor on BBC's Doctor Who. Before that, he'd starred in handful of other productions, in particular as John Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth, Cardinal Richelieu in The Musketeers, and as the ironically named W.H.O. Doctor in World War Z.
Before all of that, though, he was Malcolm Tucker, the profane head of the Department of Social Affairs in The Thick of It, a political satire/drama series. Below is a short analysis I wrote of the man as a leader and a character.
