This week has seen the publication of the most important document to be released by the British Parliament this decade. It is the The Rape Gang Inquiry Report, which documents how at least 250,000 British girls were raped, tortured, abused, forced into marriage, shipped overseas and more, by muslim immigrant men, primarily Pakistani. The Inquiry was chaired by Rupert Lowe MP and drew on the expertise of experienced professionals. It documents the harrowing stories of the girls and also the crass and frankly criminal behaviour of police, the judiciary, social workers, journalists, politicians and others. I am still reading it; it is sickening.
I note that the usual suspects, the ‘independent fact checkers’ have already made an appearance on social media. We know what they are, government stooges called in for damage control. We can take their claims in that light.
I can say that I have been aware of this problem since 1998. At that time I was a freelance photojournalist in Scotland. Then there were over 130 local newspapers in Scotland and I took about thirty every week, since I often found good human interest stories in them. One of the Glasgow local papers carried a story, perhaps three paragraphs long, about ‘young Asian men cruising in cars seeking to pick up white girls.’ I should mention that in the early 1970s the British Press Council had issued an advisory that Pakistanis were not to be referred to as such, but as ‘Asians’, much to the annoyance of the other Asians.



Aghast as she began to turn away again, and now completely at a loss for words, I was once again reminded of the sheer brilliance of my wife in situations like this. Knowing that she could not hope to plead her case in French, she had slipped over to the car, unstrapped Calum, and now appeared with him in her arms; when she knew she had the dame’s attention, she lowered the towel wrapped around him to show the lad’s bare bottom, and just said one of the few French words she knew by heart, because she needed it so often. “Couches!”



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