Are you talking about the new show in general or just the last few years? Because I can think of plenty dystopian stories from new who critical of the British government: Turn Left, The Long Game, The Beast Below. And I don't remember all of Capaldi's era but from what I do remember there was a lot of anti-war and anti-capitalist messaging in it.
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I mean over the last few years, rather than the revived series in general.
Hopefully that'll change now that Russell T Davies is back. The Chibnall era was depressingly centrist in everything besides hiring practices.
I think this is a good point. Stories seem to be stuck more or less in the present day.
Maybe modern writers aren't interested in critiquing the system because the system is so objectively great now?
That'll be it.
Its on the bbc, funded by the system. Its a bit of a conflict of interest.
That didn't stop it before.