25A036 Midsomer Psywars by Jim Davies, 9/9/2025

There's a TV series made by the ITV company in England and syndicated wordwide, called "Midsomer Murders." You may have seen it, some evenings when the brain needed a rest. I've watched quite a few episodes and am impressed by its production quality; I also think it forms a weapon in the Woke War, sometimes called Psywars, to indoctrinate while entertaining.

This Wiki page gives a background. "Midsomer" is a fictional county, containing numerous villages with an olde worlde atmosphere; to borrow Garrison Keillor's phrase, "... where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." At least, almost all of them live in mansions or cute houses built centuries ago, whose interiors are immaculate, with expensive fittings and furniture. It's been running for 28 years.

So nearly every person portrayed is in the top 5% of English society, yet the show seems to average 3 murders per episode, solved in the nick of time by the avuncular Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby (or later his cousin John) and a trusty sidekick. The acting is excellent and no pound seems to be spared on the costs of production. Only a few characters appear gainfully employed, yet almost all drive gleaming, late model cars, often Volvos and Jaguars - which goes also for the police fleet; I presume those companies are major sponsors. So does the series depart from the economic realities of earning a living.

Hence it's an escapist show, about the English Upper Crust, some of whom are portrayed as venal as well as mysteriously wealthy. For the first dozen of the series' years it set out to present that class as white, which reflects reality; then the producer was heard to say that Englishness equals whiteness, and he was replaced by a DEI hire who deliberately brought in brown and black skinned rôles. There are plenty of such people in the country, having immigrated from the former British Empire in Asia and the Caribbean, and integration has been no worse than elsewhere, but not many have reached that top 5% yet. So in more recent production years, there has been a further big departure from real life and that's when the wokery became intense.

While the well-to-do villagers amuse themselves with craft shows and yoga classes and wine tastings and falcon-breeding and tea with crumpets, a few of them engage in murder most foul, and DCI Barnaby makes his entrance. His is an appealing character, with oodles of empathy; even when he arrests the perp he ususally does so with kindly understanding. Who couldn't like him? Here is where the worst of the indoctrination kicks in.

Absent a written constitution, the law in England is whatever Parliament says it is, and before the 1900s ended all arrested were told they didn't have to speak (as in our "Miranda warning") but that if they say nothing it may harm their defense. So now in the UK, if you stay silent (stunned perhaps by some traumatic event) it counts against you later in court! - and that is portrayed as reasonable and normal!

While Barnaby is still pursuing his perps, he takes actions that would flagrantly violate Amendment Four, if England had one; but it doesn't. Sometimes Sergeant Sidekick demurs, asking his boss "don't we need a warrant for that, Sir?" but is told "perhaps, but I'm doing it anyway." and apparently, getting clean away with it; even with a rookie defense attorney here, a US court would throw evidence out if it came from an unconstitutional search.

So is the worldwide viewer, drip by drip, conditioned to suppose:

• The rich élite are evil hypocrites
• Money isn't earned by hard work
• Immigrants are all welcome and quickly prosper
• Laws don't apply to cops, nor limits to politicians
• Policemen are your friends; and if you happen to break a law,
• Answer all their questions and own up at once, because
• Courts and judges are fair and impartial.

Bed-time now, children, for they all lived happily ever after.