grooming gangs
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A grooming gang whitewash
The Government’s grooming gangs inquiry risks becoming another exercise in evasion rather than truth
The thought police are losing power
Uncomfortable questions must be asked carefully — but they must be asked
Why we cannot trust official inquiries
They can be a way for the powerful to neutralise genuinely difficult questions
How to rescue the grooming gangs inquiry
It needs power, resources and freedom from the Home Office
The law is failing grooming victims
Mandatory reporting laws have been watered down to the point of meaninglessness
How status anxiety crippled the British state
The public sector has been marinating in EDI orthodoxies
The anthropology of grooming gangs
Most societies have never cared what they did to outsiders
Priti terrible
How can the Conservatives trumpet their success on grooming gangs while Priti Patel is a shadow minister?
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