Whether it are the heavy handed musical cues that tell you when you should be wetting yourself, or the complete absence of context, which allows Freeth and Campbell to create their own contenxt.

The lawyers lie about the nature and extent of land reform in Zimbabwe. They trie to sell the ‘Perfect Elite Capture’ slur, which believes that 6,000 white farmers were replaced by 5,000 ‘friends and cronies of Mugabe’. The list they hold up as representing land reform is a partial list of the 2002 land audit done by the Zimbabwean government, through minister Flora Buka. Adjustments have been made since then, and even at that early date, there were tens of thousands of ordinary recipients. To date, land has been redistributed to 350,000 families (over 1 million people). You will not hear that in this ‘documentary’, nor will you hear any interview with the actual land recipients.

Nor any African who is not their lawyer. The ‘farm workers’ they lord over are not allowed to have an opinion of their own. They just agree that their bosses’s interests are their own interests. And if that doesn’t make you feel uncomfortable, how about Freeth’s insistence that ‘his workers’ just couldn’t survive on their own. Ben Freeth, nephew of the Third Baronet of Crowmalie (was that in there?) also believes that Africans can’t run their own country.

Mike Campbell, who fought for apartheid before retiring from the South African army in 1974, was welcomed with open arms by the illegal government of Ian Smith (death toll: 50,000), and without farming experience or collateral, was given a 20 year loan, to buy what?

Mount Carmel, the little farm, with it’s 500 ‘workers’ and 40,000 mango trees and game park, is in fact a 12,000 hectare estate. That is 6.8 miles by 6.8 miles. The average EU farm is 90 hectares. The documentary is very careful to avoid any mention of the sheer size of their land holdings. Thompson and Baily instead use cinematographic tricks to create a sense of claustrophobia, with their blurred landscapes filmed from fast moving cars.

What they also don’t give any details about, is the Fast Track land reform program. Instituted after the failure of the Willing Buyer, Willing Seller program, it divides estates like Mount Carmel into 50 and 250 hectare farms. As said, over 350,000 families have received land under both programs.

In this interview, the notion that President Mugabe is ‘a dictator’ is posited as a given. And yet, he has not abolished parliament or the judiciary. There is a free press. The police allow nearly all demonstrations and assemblies by both parties. Can Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Rwanda, say the same?

In fact, nothing changed in Zimbabwe’s form or style of government before or after 2000, when Zimbabwe was considered a good friend of the UK. President Mugabe received a knighthood (Knight Commander in the Order of Bath) as late as 1994, the same year the ANC came to power. You see the ANC and ZANU-PF had an agreement that land reform would remain untouched until negotiations in South Africa were complete. That agreement ended in 1994.

I love how they have changed over the years, from Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac straight out of working with John Mayall, to the incestuous family that developed when Stevie, Christing and Lindsey came on board.

For me, if there is going to be one ultimate Mac song there has to be one from each incarnation. So I say “Oh No” and “Gold Dust Woman”. Or “Tusk”. Or “Little Lies”. Or “Murrow Turning Over In His Grave”. Or “Black Magic Woman”. etc etc

Too often bands bang on about how their music tells a story; with Fleetwood Mac, every song truly is a chapter in their lives, and what a tale!