The Untouchables: Power, Abuse and the War for Narrative in Modern Britain

The Untouchables: Power, Abuse and the War for Narrative in Modern Britain

This essay contrasts the institutional treatment of Jimmy Savile and Tommy Robinson to show how modern Britain protects those who fit its preferred story and destroys those who threaten it. It reads this inversion of virtue as both a narrative power game and a piece of mythic theatre around priests, scapegoats and prophets.