To anyone who thinks zombie films are not vivid social satire, we have:

The American ’super-cop’ brought in by the Home Office to cut Britain’s crime rate warned last night that the nation’s binge drinking culture was spiralling out of control and fuelling an epidemic of violence outside pubs and clubs that threatened to overwhelm the police.

Critical characteristics of zombies:

• They stagger through the streets
• They inflict pain and violence on non-zombies
• Their numbers are growing
• They move in mobs
• They can’t be reasoned with