The past, as I often used to say to LP Hartley over a pint of Old Toejam, is a foreign country. They do things differently there. And even though I spent my formative years there, this seems never more true than when the 1980s come under scrutiny. What was happening? What were we thinking? And so to Mad Women, Channel 4’s entertaining jog-trot through the arrival in the 70s and ascendancy through the 80s and beyond of women in the advertising industry, as the rise of consumerism and growing affluence and appetites meant that all sorts of boys’ clubs began...