The screen is dark. A caption strip runs along its lower edge. On the sound track we can hear a voice plodding labouriously through the text. In his videowork SMS, Henrik Andersson carries out a practical test of the proposals of the Swedish Liberal party concerning language teaching for immigrants. Quotes from the party manifesto are sent by SMS to an answering machine in Germany. As the electronic voice is reading out the message – and shifting from a German to an English accent – the disguise concealing the populist policy is penetrated. It totally falls apart when the voice spells out the word ‘modersmålsundervisning’ (mother-tongue teaching for immigrants).