From QAnon to Rotherham: Why the Establishment Always Looks the Other Way The US and UK right are in a strange and sordid mess when it comes to child sexual abuse. In Britain, the very people who fume about asylum seekers living near schools—in case they might be paedophiles—are now outraged about new online safety … Read more
Labour and Grooming Gangs : Why Some Politicians Want It All Kicked into the Long Grass Last month, the Government agreed to hold a new national inquiry into grooming gangs. Like the Government, I was initially sceptical. The Jay Inquiry already spent seven years investigating historic child sexual exploitation, producing a raft of recommendations that … Read more
Back when the Conservatives were in power, they launched a high-profile public inquiry into child abuse and grooming gangs in Rotherham—a Labour-controlled local authority. They didn’t do the same for Bradford (then Conservative-run), Blackpool (variously governed by Labour and Tories), or Doncaster (at the time, run by the English Democrats—now part of Reform UK). This … Read more