All the dots were in the right place, but joining them up left an odd-looking picture.

At its most simple, Lucky Day is a story about how young white men fall down the far-right rabbit hole online and become angry and disillusioned, sometime to a fatal degree. Its told with all the subtlety of tossing a brick through a window, but that's not necessarily a bad thing nor without precedent in Doctor Who.

The issue is the context. In this episode, Conrad is a bit of a bigot, but the motives behind his actions aren't the standard far-right talking points. Instead, he thinks UNIT are lying to the public about aliens and alien technology existing. He disagrees with the idea of an international quasi-military organisation that has little if any oversight and yet remains well-funded and fairly powerful. And so we, as the audience, find ourselves on the side of UNIT.
Hey everyone!, McTighe seems to write. Isn't it awful that the baddie in this episode thinks there shouldn't be an international quasi-military organisation that has little if any oversight and yet remains well-funded and fairly powerful?