Truth is stranger than fiction. Life imitates art. Regardless of the idiom that you choose, there’s no denying that the burgeoning #PigGate scandal in the UKhas an eerie connection to the Black Mirror episode “The National Anthem.”

Over the weekend, news broke that a a soon-to-be-published biography of British Prime Minister David Cameron claims that he placed a “private part of his anatomy” into the mouth of a dead pig during his days at Oxford. According to the book, the pig’s head was resting in the lap of another person when Cameron dropped trou to complete an initiation ritual to the Piers Gaveston society. This revelation sent Twitter into a frenzy, particularly as soon as people connected the dots between this (alleged) incident and what happened in Charlie Brooker‘s acclaimed Black Mirror series, which features an episode where the Prime Minister is —SPOILER ALERT!— blackmailed by terrorists into sodomizing a pig on live national television.