Maggie Oliver: “They’re going to re-traumatise victims”
The Manchester detective-turned-whistleblower says child sexual abuse has become “a political point-scoring football”
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Labour MPs complain about minister’s race remarks
The Pygge has already seen one formal complaint from a Labour MP to their whip after Mike Tapp’s comments
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Why do some grooming gang survivors want Jess Phillips to resign?
What Shabana Mahmood decides to do about the safeguarding minister could define her tenure as Home Secretary
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“I felt gaslit”: inside the chaos of the government’s grooming gang inquiry
Four survivors quit the victims liaison panel, while the shortlisted chair pulled out of the inquiry
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Shabana Mahmood and the rise of English white nationalism
The generosity of our moral imagination has collapsed, and been replaced by taunts and bigotry.
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Blame Rotherham sexual abuse on misogyny – not immigration
Allegations about police abuse of women and girls in Yorkshire undermine the grooming gangs narrative pushed by the right.
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Grooming gangs, social cohesion and hard truths
In the long term, attempts to avoid confronting issues are more toxic to than facing them head on.
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PMQs review: The grooming gangs scandal continues to shake parliament
Angela Rayner and Chris Philp traded blows on the gangs, migration and house building.
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Why is Kemi Badenoch making the grooming gangs about herself?
Grooming survivors have accused the Conservative leader of “political point-scoring”.
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Keir Starmer’s grooming gang cowardice
Once again, the Prime Minister is hiding behind officialdom instead of leading.
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The grooming gangs fallout
Reluctance to hold a public inquiry into the scandal has made the government look like it has something to hide.
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The Casey report reveals 15 years of establishment denial
The audit found a “collective failure to address questions about the ethnicity of grooming gangs”.
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The grooming gang fallout is only just beginning
Yvette Cooper’s statement on the Casey report revealed 15 years of national failure.
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PMQs review: Badenoch’s attacks are undermined by her record in government
The Conservative leader never raised the issue of a national inquiry into the rape gangs when she was children’s minister…
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The truth about the grooming scandal
The media did not ignore the gangs or the violence – but the victims still await justice.
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Why is Elon Musk tweeting about Britain’s grooming gangs?
The British right should be wary of importing American populism.
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This government doesn’t have a clue about grooming gangs
It’s raising expectations about a system that will end up failing young girls.
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Is the government’s grooming task force about fighting crime or a culture war?
Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman’s focus on race is curious, and at odds with the evidence on child sex abuse.
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My experience of Rotherham shows the real problem isn’t brown men, it’s how we treat working-class girls
Stop dog-whistling about Pakistani men on the pretext of caring about poor schoolgirls.
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In Manchester and Rotherham, cowardly authorities refused to crack down on rapists – why?
Nazir Afzal, the former chief prosecutor who brought the Rochdale grooming gang to justice, on why more women and girls…
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