Rochdale

My idea for a new grooming gang inquiry

5 July 2025 9:00 am

It’s disorienting but satisfying that Labour now accepts that Asian grooming gangs exist. Some of my left-identified friends are even…

The right rape gang inquiry

21 June 2025 9:00 am

Another inquiry into child sexual abuse, another minister insisting that this time it will be different. Yvette Cooper promises arrests,…

What real justice would look like for grooming gang victims

11 January 2025 9:00 am

It is always interesting to watch a dam burst. In the past week, as Elon Musk and other prominent Americans…

Who’ll join my war against liberalism?

11 January 2025 9:00 am

I can see one possible benefit of having a full inquiry into the almost exclusively Muslim grooming gangs who raped…

Word processing

30 April 2016 9:00 am

‘Comedy is like music,’ said Edwin Apps, one of the characters in Wednesday afternoon’s Radio 4 play, All Mouth and…

What a spankingly splendid scandal

9 January 2016 9:00 am

Apparently, according to a variety of relatively reliable sources that include the man himself, the Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon…