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video UK · 7 September 2025

Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling

This video argues that recent UK refugee protests are a media-driven "wedge issue" designed to divert public attention from wealth taxes and economic inequality. It explains how media salience and storytelling are used to shift political discourse away from taxing the rich towards anti-immigration sentiment.

By Gary Stevenson

Mentions Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Elon Musk

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