- “New Orleans attack: Terrorist with suspected links to Islamic State rams into New Year’s Day revellers” – A terrorist with suspected links to Islamic State (IS) drove a pick-up truck into crowds of people celebrating the new year on one of America’s most famous party streets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Who is Shamsud Din Jabbar? The man behind the New Orleans terror attack with possible ISIS links” – The driver who massacred pedestrians celebrating the New Year on a New Orleans street and died in a shootout with police has been identified, according to the Mail.
- “Former college football star and high schooler killed in terror attack” – A former college football star, high school senior, father-of -two and young mother are among 15 victims killed in the horrific New Orleans terror attack, says the Mail.
- “Trump blames illegal migrant for ‘evil’ terror attack in New Orleans” – President-elect Donald Trump has slammed the New Orleans terror attack as a “pure act of evil” and claimed an illegal migrant is to blame, reports the Mail.
- “Tesla Cybertruck bursts into flames outside of Trump Hotel in Vegas” – Elon Musk has claimed that “a bomb or very large fireworks” caused the explosion outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, with Wednesday’s Cybertruck blast now under investigation as a potential act of terrorism, according to the Mail.
- “Lying about migration” – The country was lied to about immigration, however it is dressed up now, according to the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “VAT on private schools ‘won’t raise enough to hit new teacher target’” – A Labour pledge to recruit 6,500 extra teachers could cost £5 billion a year, research has found, amid warnings the Government could fail to meet its target by the end of the current Parliament, reports the Times.
- “Private school fees rise by more than Labour predicted” – The VAT hike in private school fees will increase the bills charged to parents by more than predicted by Labour, says the Express.
- “Treasury attacked over ‘tax break’ claim in private school VAT ads” – MPs and education leaders have accused the Treasury of breaching impartiality rules for saying in adverts that VAT on private school fees ends a “tax break”, reports the Times.
- “‘I earn £12k and scrimp to send my child to private school – Labour’s tax raid is sickening’” – Parents who are far from wealthy face a stark choice as private school fees rise, says Pieter Snepvangers in the Telegraph.
- “Private school fee rises after VAT raid don’t matter to parents, suggests BBC Verify” – BBC Verify has suggested that private school fee increases after the Government’s VAT raid will not significantly reduce the number of parents educating their children privately, reports the Telegraph.
- “Welcome to 2025 where taxing education is seen as moral” – Labour’s bone-headed raid on private schools only entrenches elitism and vanquishes choice, writes Sam Brodbeck in the Telegraph.
- “The problem with ‘diversifying’ the curriculum ” – Curriculums should be about imparting knowledge, not advancing social justice, says Kristina Murkett in the Spectator.
- “Make lessons fun to keep children in school, ministers told” – Ministers are facing union pressure to make the curriculum more enjoyable for disadvantaged pupils after figures showed that school suspensions and expulsions have reached a record high, reports the Times.
- “Is academia killing capitalism?” – Austrian political economist Joseph Schumpeter may have been right to fear academia, but it was for the wrong reasons, argues Joseph Francis on his Substack.
- “Labour rejects Oldham’s call for Government inquiry into grooming gangs scandal” – The Government has formally rejected repeated requests for a Home Office-led inquiry into historic child abuse in Oldham after the town’s council voted on the matter earlier this year, reports GB News.
- “Elon Musk wades into explosive grooming gangs row after GB News exclusive” – Elon Musk has turned up the temperature on an explosive row over grooming gangs after GB News revealed that Labour’s Jess Phillips had shut down calls for a public inquiry into the scandal.
- “Why Rotherham happened” – Rotherham is a story of catastrophic elite failure, writes Louise Perry on her Substack.
- “Labour loses string of council by-elections as voters turn on Starmer” – Labour has lost five times as many council seats as it has won since the General Election, reports the Express.
- “Fewer than half of Labour voters optimistic about 2025, poll reveals” – A new poll has revealed that fewer than half of Labour voters are optimistic about the year ahead, says the Mail.
- “Kemi Badenoch can make 2025 the year of the Conservative comeback” – There is a war against the West, says Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph. Kemi Badenoch’s challenge is to prove that only she has the strategy, the statesmanship and the steeliness to win it.
- “Britain’s driveway divide is killing the case for electric cars” – It doesn’t make sense to buy an EV when they cost more to run as well as to buy, says James Titcomb in the Telegraph.
- “‘Labour are supposed to help working class people’: the city ravaged by the war on oil” – While the Government ploughs ahead with its push for renewable energy, the future hangs in the balance for Aberdeen’s offshore workers, writes Rosa Silverman in the Telegraph.
- “Esther Rantzen fought for ‘assisted dying’. Now she’s surely killed it off” – The good news about the miracle drug that will be able to treat Esther Rantzen’s lung cancer ought to help her see the folly of her campaigning for assisted dying, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph. Had the law been in place, she’d probably be dead.
- “‘I treat children with life-limiting conditions from cousin marriages – but we can’t talk about it’” – Medics say that cousin marriages cause degenerative diseases in offspring, but concerns over cultural sensitivity mean that few are willing to tackle the issue, writes Jill Foster in the Telegraph.
- “GPs failed to pick up phone to 1.1 million people in December” – More than a million sick patients – accounting for one in 20 who tried – were unable to contact their GP last month, reports the Mail.
- “Hungary grants political asylum to Polish opposition MP” – Hungary has granted political asylum to a former Polish minister, stating that the current Tusk Government in Warsaw uses criminal law as a weapon against its political opponents, according to the European Conservative.
- “Here’s why Elon Musk changed his name on X to ‘Kekius Maximus’ — and what it means” – Elon Musk changed his name on X to Kekius Maximus on New Year’s Eve, reports the NY Post.
- “Watchdog sues State Department for records on censorship efforts, funding for ad ‘blacklist’ that included the Post” – The State Department is facing a lawsuit over its now-defunct Global Engagement Centre, accused of pressuring social media giants to curb free speech while using taxpayer funds to back groups that even attempted to blacklist the Post, says the NY Post.
- “How Milei’s chainsaw economics proved his Left-wing critics wrong” – Javier Milei’s brand of ‘shock therapy’ has Argentina finally living within its means, writes Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “Tech firm’s fate shows Trump is right on China” – Imagination, a U.K. company, was meant to be evidence that it’s worth doing business with Beijing — it hasn’t turned out that way, says Juliet Samuel in the Times.
- “Sadiq Khan’s knighthood branded insult to knife crime victims’ families” – Sir Sadiq Khan’s knighthood has been described as “an insult” to the families of knife crime victims, with violent crime in London having risen sharply during his tenure as Mayor, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘My children think I’ve sold out by accepting knighthood’” – Sadiq Khan says his children think he has “sold out” by accepting a knighthood, according to the Express. They’re not the only ones.
- “Mayor Sadiq Khan ‘politicises’ fireworks with hidden message in music” – Viewers have claimed that Sir Sadiq Khan used part of his 11-minute display in London to poke fun at Rishi Sunak’s rain-soaked General Election announcement in May, reports the Mail.
- “Neil Young pulls out of Glastonbury over BBC involvement” – Neil Young has pulled out of Glastonbury in protest at the BBC exerting “corporate control” over the festival, says the Express.
- “Alastair Campbell’s son faces questions over failed betting syndicate” – Alastair Campbell’s son has been threatened with bankruptcy and police action over a £5 million loss from his failed football betting syndicate, reveals the Times.
- “The Drenching Arms – part two” – In part two of Paul Sutton’s tale, Raven reflects on a changing world in The Drenching Arms.
- “Our current elite must be removed and their values completely replaced” – On X, Nick Dixon shows a clip of Andrew Norfolk, Chief Investigative Reporter for the Times, sharing harrowing details from his four year investigation into “the lost girls of Rotherham”.
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The Eye of Elon has turned its beam onto the UK Government. Not only targeting Jess Phillips but explaining the reason for her inaction:
Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice?
I think this is potentially huge.
The public and the popular press loath kiddie fiddlers, and the timing is right with the massive petition against the government allied to every new year survey in the country showing that people are fed up and pessimistic.
It is, and I hope it becomes a massive stick with which to batter this “government” and its utterly contemptible leader into a bloody pulp.
Hear, hear.
Correct ! He’s as Bent as a nine Bob note !
I just listened to the Nick Dixon link there, and that is absolutely horrifyingly.
At the very least those coppers must be suspended, sacked and lose their pensions.
We must push for a genuine public enquiry.
Not to do so is an insult to the kids involved and their families. And their whole communities.
And to fail to do so for reasons of “community cohesion” is an insult to those members of the Muslim community, presumably the majority, who are not rapists and kiddy fiddlers.
The same enquiry could also look at the problems facing ex-muslim apostates.
Why don’t these ‘good’ Muslim raise their own enquiry? If they are so concerned about their good names being blackened why don’t they get up on the hind legs and pay for an inquiry to give justice and clear their good names? ..no?
Yeah well that’s a very good point, well made.
Absolutely spot on, Dinger, as usual!
The main reason for inaction by the muslim community is fear. Their communities run very, very much on tribal grounds and individuals and families fear ostracisation so better to turn a blind eye and keep schtum. There is also a high degree of indifference, so long as their families are not affected nothing needs to be said. Finally, fear of violence. Muslim communities are largely controlled by gangsters either by the Imams or those working for them. And local Labour parties keep these muslim communities onside by spraying them with money, land and property deals and in return the Imams ensure that at election time the mandated postal voting system is employed to return Labour politicians, both local and national. Some muslims are waking up to the riches available if they cut out the middle men ie the Labour Party and go freelance although similar tactics are employed.
The vast majority of the British population haven’t got a bloody clue what goes on in the Northern towns. Not a bloody clue.
https://x.com/tpointuk/status/1874765109446524980?s=48&t=tRZxiZS6XXOVoV2wE5Supw
This short film provides much detail. Do not believe any of Raja Mia’s self praise. He likes to make out he is a lone warrior. He isn’t. Very good on information but modesty is not one of Raja’s virtues
The emasculation of Oldham Labour Party has involved much hard work by a committed few over the last five years.
100% ..pity we don’t have an FBI to bust all this Muslim covert control sh!t
We do in theory have an serious organised crime agency, but they don’t seem terribly interested in mass gang rape, extortion, protection rackets corruption in various forms. Probably not considered serious enough.
Or possibly too serious. May require special forces assistance.
This will make your blood boil, if you haven’t already seen it. Charlie Peters of GBN ( the only journalist from any news outlet to bother attending a trial of these sick monsters ) made a 45min documentary about the rape gangs and the cover-up. And I do wish people would refer to them as ‘rape gangs’, not ‘grooming gangs’, as if the latter is somehow more palatable, a watered down version ( similar to re-branding paedophiles as ”MAPs” or child sex abuse images as ”child pornography” ) which lessens the severity of the crime and the effects on the victims;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAGk2mvgBEk&t=1s
Agreed
We must also talk about Stonewall and their inclusion of M and I to the list of accepted minority protection.
M = Minor attracted
I = Incest
It is why certain groups do not want genetic testing at pregnancy as it would reveal the extent of this issue. And why the other Muslims turn a blind eye, as it safer for them if their men can use these white girls instead of raping their own children.
My God, what an unbelievable business.
Just running a counterfactual, what do we think would have happened if these guys had been Christians living in lahore or some similar city?
Slaughter on a massive scale, blood in the streets and wholesale deportation of the survivors?
I am obviously not calling for that, but it is a point worth bearing in mind, I think.
And if I hear one more apologist for these vile criminals use the term they thought they were “consenting”, I may well explode.
These were kids ffs below the age of consent.
Yes well I think paedophile apologist, ‘Ron Smith’, on here might have something to say about your last comment. God only knows what he’s got sitting on his devices…”Vile” certainly hits the mark. It’s those pesky feminists’ fault for getting the age of consent raised, don’t you know, so that sick men can’t get their grubby hands on minors and legitimize their abuse as lawful…
People above the police who have slept easy while these kids suffered need to be at a minimum sacked or at best jailed !
“At the very least those coppers must be suspended, sacked and lose their pensions.”
The chain is much longer – the Desk Sergeant on the night and then ALL those involved in allowing the prosecution to proceed including the CPS.
They are attempting to keep a lid on the grooming Scandal but as we in Oldham know this issue is massive. Potentially this could blow a hole through UK politics which is why the lid is being tied down.
Well yes quite.
The whole infinitely sordid, squalid episode is personified by the man in number 10.
Probably not for much longer.
My sense is finally this thing is gathering momentum.
“GB News revealed that Labour’s Jess Phillips had shut down calls for a public inquiry into the scandal”
Her full title is:
‘Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding of Violence Against Women and Girls’
Its fu#king obvious who’s side she’s on and it definitely is not women and girls, it’s muslims and Islamics!
Their votes matter far more than any silly little white girls lives or families
This peice of scrotey labour trash needs to be tried for treason!
According to Elon Musk, she is protecting her boss.
But all things come back to Starmer, don’t they? No matter the context. Do you think any of these ministers’ decisions won’t have been ran past him first? He’s the one who has final say on everything, given his position, after all.
Never in my 60+ years have I ever witnessed such a treacherous, treasonous government than the one now in power! even our own children don’t matter any more.
It’s not the labour party I spent most of my life voting for.. any kind of governmental patriotism on both sides, has long gone, pride in being British is dead, killed by its own governments!
Vote reform, it really is Britain’s last chance!!
Yes , he is the actual commander in chief of this cover up ! It’s all on him !!..
100%.
More fool Jess because Kneel definitely won’t protect her.
Yes exactly, Dinger. I saw this news yesterday. But it should surprise precisely nobody. After all, Labour facilitated and were complicit in the ongoing organized abuse of those girls. They effectively enabled it, along with many others in positions of authority. Anybody who knew what was going on and chose to look the other way, completely abandoning their duties just because of who the perpetrators were and who the victims were, is complicit. Also, Labour wouldn’t want to burn their bridges with the Muslim community, who still represent a significant voter base, would they? Their loyalties lie with the criminals not the victims, as has been proven countless times already. But, definitely, Phillips’ title just provides the final insult, doesn’t it?
Well said Mogs.
She’s also worried for her own seat & her own safety. She just scraped through in the election against a pro-Palestine candidate. She was threatened, bullied & intimidated.
Many Muslims have recognised that they don’t necessarily need their own party.if they hold the balance of power in multiple constituencies. In a closer election it’s likely their ‘owned’ MPs will operate as a party within a party & hold the balance of power in Parliament too.
They all need chucked in a mega-secure prison on a remote island for the rest of their lives, with their estates seized and given as compensation to those they have failed.
There are an awful lot of Labour politicians who are now guilty of treason.
“Javier Milei’s brand of ‘shock therapy’ has Argentina finally living within its means”.
Correction: Milei […] has Argentina’s Government living within its means.
Those outside the government – who cannot print their own money – always have to live within their means (or else they disappear from the economy).
‘Kemi Badenoch can make 2025 the year of the Conservative comeback’
Absolute cobblers
She’s to weak to bring back a good dinner!
Look at the pathetic child like nonsense she just shown her self up for dealing with Farage, don’t be fooled, she’s no breath of fresh air, she’s just the black tough talking mouth on the same old weak tory stick!
If she can be ‘used’ to get the Tories back in then the pack will get behind her, if it works and she gets the election the pack will immediately rip her apart and put the real socialist tory choice in her place!
Yes, just listen to her spouting off pretending to “support” Elon Musk’s calling out the Pakistani Muslim Rape Gangs, criticizing Labour when THE TORIES HAD 14 YEARS TO FIX IT, and did NOTHING.
Well yes they did but it’s hardly kemi’s fault they didn’t.
Odd that braverman, possibly the soundest home sec in decades didn’t have a go at it.
I think the fact she didn’t speaks to the power of senior civil servants, and yes of course they should have been overruled and sacked but it’s probably not that simple.
So much of practical politics is about understanding (not only trying to control) public opinion and then riding the wave.
Doesn’t matter as long as a LOT of people end up in jail and unemployed and unemployable.
Badenouff is a waste of space and so far removed from Britishness she is clueless.
Perfect for the Tories.
Badenouff !
Hux, I nearly spate my lunch out with laughing.. you bugger
What’s her title again? Oh yes…
Everyone who is responsible for children’s welfare must learn from past mistakes and do everything possible to prevent future failures.
Except promote a public inquiry.
Connor Tomlinson’s done an excellent, comprehensive article here. What is noteworthy is the fact that these disgusting pieces of filth got ongoing support from the Muslim community, because this is essentially how it works in a clan-type culture, everybody closes ranks and it all gets covered up, but they were also supported by family members. This part is incomprehendable to me because one would expect any sane and decent person to denounce and cut all ties with somebody found guilty of such wicked crimes, especially if they’re sat there in court and hearing all of these vile and shocking details. But apparently not.
This speaks volumes to me about this culture and any rational person should be questioning: do we really want people in our country who evidently legitimize this kind of abhorrent treatment of females, especially native, vulnerable underage girls? It really is a dire reflection on the Muslim community and epitomizes the incompatibility of the two cultures;
”The convicted paedophiles’ families attended the trials, and waved to them as they entered the court. Peters notes that “family members were seen shaking their heads and crying as the sentence was delivered”. After Mohammed Siyab was sentenced, one of his daughters cried out “I love you dad” as he was led out of the dock. This may shock those of us who believe justice must be meted out impartially, without preference for family, clan, race, or religious creed. However, as Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra, an imam who joined Together Against Grooming in 2013, told the BBC: “People were troubled by us reading the sermon and one man asked me how he could stop it being read.”
There has been a culture of cover up within Muslim enclaves in Britain concerning child sexual exploitation. Some knew their brothers, fathers, friends, and cousins participated in grooming gangs, and said nothing, for fear of bringing collective shame upon the Muslim community. The Muslim Women’s Network complained that too little attention was paid to Muslim girls also being abused by Pakistani gangs — but failed to point the finger at the shame culture which pervades Muslim communities. A culture of shame encourages silence, because the family and clan are punished collectively for the actions of one or many members. Mohammed Shafiq, whose three cousins were jailed as part of the Rotherham grooming gang trials, explained that “the crimes of the Hussain brothers represent a stain on the Pakistani community that can never truly be scrubbed away” — and that, for this reason, “some British Pakistanis have deliberately buried their heads in the sand [and] see any of us who try to tackle this problem as siding with the white ‘enemy’”.
Others abetted, or were merely indifferent, to white English girls being victimised because they are Kafir — non-believers. Equal moral consideration is not applied to those outside the Ummah. Worse still, some looked to Islamic scripture to justify their crimes. Dr. Taj Hargey, imam of the Oxford Islamic Congregation, confirmed in 2013 that the grooming gangs “deliberately targeted vulnerable white girls, whom they appeared to regard as ‘easy meat’, to use one of their revealing, racist phrases”. To pretend Islam did not contribute to the grooming gangs is “ideological denial”, according to Dr. Hargey. There is a tribal, misogynistic morality in Islamic scripture. The Quran teaches that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man’s; and Hadiths prescribe punishing women with stoning for adultery, or a hundred lashes for fornication. There are ample verses from which grooming gang members may derive a justification for their crimes; hence why remorseless members of a Rotherham grooming gang, jailed in 2017, shouted “Allahu akbar” as they were led out of court.”
https://courage.media/2024/12/03/the-victims-of-diversity/
I am not excusing them and I think everyone should have been prosecuted who allowed this to happen.
But I think this behaviour is common across many cultures where children have always been used and abused. We had the same in the Children’s Homes of the 50s & 60s. Jimmy Savile where none of the ‘medics’ were prosecuted who allowed him access to vulnerable children.
Yes absolutely. It’s only when you scratch the surface and reveal a whole putrid cesspit of a world of abuse, that you start to comprehend just how extensive the problem is. Except we won’t ever see the full extent of the problem due to the amount of people involved who are actively covering it up, past and present. Regarding Savile, I am absolutely convinced that even if he hadn’t died he wouldn’t have been charged and received justice for his crimes because most of the judges ( as well as other powerful and influential people ) are involved. They’re either paedophiles themselves or they’re complicit in the cover-up, and this is why people are too afraid to speak up. Because of the ramifications. Paedophile rings are still ongoing and will never go away, as long as there’s a continuous supply of ”easy meat” victims and the people at the top are untouchable. This is exactly why judges let paedos walk but people who post anything remotely ‘anti-establishment’ online get sent down. After all, what is the message that sort of ‘justice’ being served sends out?
I suspect too, as is the nature of these things, what we can see so obviously may only be the tip of the iceberg. A thought which is terrifying in its own right and may indeed be behind the reluctance to agree to a public enquiry into the matter?
Worth considering too that 70,000 children are reported missing every year… it’s not clear from what I’ve read how many subsequently turn up though some clearly do as that number are represented in 210,000 ‘missing’ reports so some must be serial runaways, I think?
Exactly. I try not to dwell on it but it does make you wonder who you’re rubbing shoulders with in society, especially given the amount of perverted paedos who go unpunished. And as you say, who’s even on the case of these missing children? Is anyone even actively investigating this? I have zero faith in the police so this is another area where investigative journalism comes into it’s own. There has never in history been so much surveillance and technology as there is now and yet still it’s seemingly possible to just ‘disappear’…Well it’s certainly easy to disappear when nobody’s actively looking for you.
Just to put things in perspective, here’s some disturbing figures. Bear in mind these numbers are several years old, so what is the damage now?;
”More recently, a study found that Pakistanis dominate national grooming gang statistics. By comparing the number of prosecutions to the overall population it showed that 1 in every 2,200 Muslim men over 16 in England and Wales had been prosecuted for this crime from 1997 to 2017.
When it came to Pakistanis it was 1 in 1,700.
In Rochdale, 1 in 280 Muslim males over 16 were prosecuted.
In Telford, it was 1 in 126.
In Rotherham, 1 in 73.
ONE IN SEVENTY-THREE.”
https://x.com/CDP1882/status/1874597928339419537
….Which does make this jar, somewhat;
”In 2025, Rotherham will become the world’s first Children’s Capital of Culture designed and delivered by children and young people from our borough. And at the Rotherham Show, you’ll get a sneak peek of what to expect during our festival year!”
https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/homepage/441/childrens-capital-of-culture-area
And when you consider only about 10 % of the guilty ever ger charged, basically it means there’s more involved than not involved.
No wonder nobody talks.
ONE IN SEVENTY-THREE.
Wow. That is shocking.
If one were inclined to do so, one might extrapolate from those figures, I suppose, and conclude that if the 1/73 is representative in any way at all (and particularly given that these are apparently ‘prosecutions’ taken forward by the very CPS seemingly determined to hide the issue), then the iceberg being hidden from sight may be very large indeed?
I think read that Pakistan or Bangladeshi had recently reduced the legal age of marriage to nine years for girls. If so that suggests those populations are OK with child abusers, at least the men seem to be as they are the dominant force in public affairs.
I think it is Iraq that the leading party is trying to lower the age of consent for marriage from 18 to 9 !
https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/articles/iraq-new-draft-bill-could-allow-girls-as-young-as-9-years-old-to-get-married/
Thanks for the link Mogs.
Charlie Peters ( much admiration and gratitude for his investigative work on this issue ) has done an excellent thread here, but I think you need a Twitter account to see the full thing and it’s too long to cut and paste. Here’s an excerpt. It would be great if he could write up an article on this so it’s more shareworthy;
”Britain’s grooming gangs scandal is attracting attention. It’s happened before, but now it seems different.
I’ve dedicated most of my career in journalism to covering it. Because it’s the most appalling atrocity in modern British history.
In this thread, I’ll tell you what I know about the crisis, what I’ve uncovered, and what is yet to be revealed…
When did it start?
Reports of gangs of men abusing children via on-street grooming go back as far as the 1970s.
But it first came to major prominence after Labour MP Ann Cryer raised concerns about the targeting of young girls by “Asian men” outside school gates.
It was 2003. She was accused of racism by many in her own party and had to install a panic alarm. Cryer was vilified for trying to support girls facing appalling abuse by predominantly Pakistani men. She was the first to endure this treatment, but by no means the last.
Then a year later in 2004 came ‘Edge of the City,’ a Channel 4 documentary about social workers in Bradford.
Hours before transmission it was yanked from the schedules.
Unite Against Fascism, The 1990 Trust, and the National Assembly Against Racism lobbied Channel 4 to drop it, as did the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire.
The local elections were coming up. And the film captured grooming gangs for the first time. South Asian men abusing teenage white girls. They were worried that the BNP, who were making a lot of noise about the abuse gangs, would profit.
So it was canned. Another opportunity to discuss children as young as 11 being gang raped was missed.
A journalist based in the north was the next to pick up the story.
Andrew Norfolk at The Times had reported on Ann Cryer. But he moved on because he admitted: “I didn’t want the story to be true because it made me deeply uncomfortable.”
“The suggestion that men from a minority ethnic background were committing sex crimes against white children was always going to be the far right’s fantasy story come true.”
“Liberal angst kicked instinctively into top gear.”
But in 2010, something snapped in Norfolk, and he felt like he could no longer ignore it.
In 2010 he heard a radio report about a grooming gang in Manchester.
He started going through archives. What he found was a pattern.
Since 1997 there had been 17 cases in 13 towns where a group of men had approached a girl on the street and groomed her.
Of the 56 convicted, 3 were white, 53 were Asian.
50 of those had Muslim names, most were Pakistani.
But when he went to the authorities, they refused to talk.
Barnados, the children’s charity, told staff not to talk to him.
At the time, it seemed like the only prominent people talking about this crisis were right-wing politicians and activists, such as Tommy Robinson’s EDL.”
https://x.com/CDP1882/status/1874597888912764999
I thought journalists claimed a special place in society, special legal priveleges and salaries for looking into stories and presenting them to their readers.
“Lying about migration” – The country was lied to about immigration, however it is dressed up now, according to the Telegraph in a leading article.
Where have they been for the past decades, especially since the 1990s.
“Here’s why Elon Musk changed his name on X to ‘Kekius Maximus’ — and what it means” – Elon Musk changed his name on X to Kekius Maximus on New Year’s Eve, reports the NY Post.
According to the dictionary “kakistocracy” means rule by the weakest. A democrat supporting left leaning friend from the US used it to describe the incoming US administration. I think Elon may use it to mean rule by the weakest meaning those ignored or worse by those who consider themselves the elites.
In Scots use
To void excrement; “to go to stool; generally used in regard to children” (Sc. 1825 Jam.2, cackie; Sh. 1908 Jak. (1928), kaki, kakki; Ayr.
It’s actually referring to the Egyptian Frog-headed god of Darkness named “Kek”, seen in the frog memes sometimes used by rightwingers online. Not sure why they chose that meme.
This article is bloody annoying. The author talks about trading in a Skoda (unspecified) 1.0 litre petrol car for a KIA e-Niro.
If instead the author had bought another Skoda 1.0l petrol car with a similar body style he might have bought a Skoda Kamiq with a high-end trim package.
Currently on Autotrader a new e-Niro costs from £32k and a new Kamiq (Monte Carlo trim) can be had from £26k – that’s £8k difference.
The author mentions charging the e-Niro at home can cost as little as £2 per 100 mile range whereas a petrol car would cost £14 per 100 miles. An apparently huge difference of £12 per 100 miles.
To recoup the £8k difference in price at £12/100 miles we would need to drive the car £66,666 miles which for me would be about 10 years motoring.
Of course there will be other costs like servicing and road tax and insurance. I don’t have a handle on how those will compare over a 10 year period.
Also, of course, the author may not be buying new – but someone has to have done so to then put the car into a second-hand market. If an e-Niro has lost value faster than a petrol Kamiq what does that tell us?
There’s also the lost opportunity cost of the £8k price difference – whether you lease it or buy it outright.
They checked with Rachel from accounts and said your figures aren’t right.
Ooops :).
That’s £6k difference… So only 50k miles 7.5 years to break even.
Mea culpa.
Just as well he could get a lower spec one for £21k. £11k difference… I think.
“Elon Musk wades into explosive grooming gangs row after GB News exclusive”
Fantastic news, and here’s some more!
Elon Musk demands release of UK far-right ringleader Tommy Robinson – Mirror Online
“The Tesla owner asked, “Why is Tommy Robinson in a solitary confinement prison for telling the truth? He should be freed and those who covered up this travesty should take his place in that cell.”
“Lying about migration”
Here’s a great comment from the public:
“The divide in the country isn’t Rich versus Poor, as Labour would have you believe.
Nor is it Liberal versus Conservative, as the Tories would like you to think.
It is, and has been for some time now, Nationalist versus Internationalist.
Some people think that your country belongs to you,
others think it belongs to anyone and everyone from across the Third World.”