We Were Too Polite to Stop the Woke Takeover
23 May 2025
It's not 'CSE'. It's child rape, says Joanna Gray. Enough with the sterile acronyms that seem designed to conceal the horror. Enough of the "bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language" (Wittgenstein).
In 2013, Lucy Powell described the rape gangs as "horrific". Twelve years later she dismissed the issue as a "dog whistle". To get ahead in the Labour Party, you’ve now got to throw white working-class girls to the wolves.
Voicing concerns about grooming gangs is a "dog-whistle", a "little trumpet" and jumping "on a bandwagon of the far Right". That's what Labour really thinks, says Andrew Doyle, and voters will not be forgiving.
Why are some courts refusing to release transcripts of the rape gang trials, ask Adam Wren and Melisa Tourt. The transcripts contain valuable information about the cases, but not all courts are cooperating with requests.
Labour has dropped its plans for five local grooming gang inquiries that it promised in January when under pressure, saying it's now up to local councils to decide how to spend the £5 million allocated.
Tom Crowther KC was asked by the Government to help establish local rape gang inquiries. Why, after three months, has he heard nothing about their progress? Katie Lam put the question to Jess Phillips in the Commons today.
When rapists are Right-wing we, rightly, hear all about their crimes. But not so much when they're Left-Wing, says Steven Tucker. Which is probably why you've never heard of the alleged crimes of this gay rights activist.
Feminist lawyer Charlotte Proudman has done some great work drafting legislation to criminalise forced marriage and FGM, says Steven Tucker. But when it comes to the rape gangs, she has a glaring blind spot.
Diversity kitsch is all around us. But as the grim fact forcefully confronts us that some immigrants hate their hosts so much they want to murder and rape them, David McGrogan senses that it is at last falling from favour.
Is Keir Starmer autistic? His public persona (or lack of), absence of interpersonal skills and obsessively technocratic outlook might lead us to conclude so. But that would be unfair on autistic people, says Steven Tucker.
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