Stef

Here are three seemingly separate stories you might have missed in the last week in the UK that, taken together, reveal something far more profound. First, it's emerged that pro-immigration campaigners helped place and prepare illegal migrants in the audience on the BBC flagship debate programme, Question Time, to “test” pro-migration messages in front of the British people. Second, it’s been revealed that a writer who helped craft storylines on the popular BBC primetime soap Eastenders is a “migration and racial justice” activist who works on “changing people’s views” through popular culture. And third, it’s been revealed that the family of Rhiannon Whyte — a young mother who was stabbed to death by an illegal migrant from Sudan — was guided by state officials to “tone down” their statement after Rhiannon’s murder, because of fears it might cause unrest among the wider population. Three seemingly different stories that involve three different institutions – the BBC, the creative industry, and the British state. What do they all have in common? They all reflect the Narrative State -- a state that no longer sees its main role as being to describe reality but present a warped version of reality that reflects and reinforces its dominant ideology. ⬇️⬇️⬇️