A medley of DT headlines for 4th January 2024

Since the July general election the The Daily Telegraph has grown increasingly rebellious.  The editorial stance didn’t shift further to the progressive cause, as was the case in 1997 when, after eighteen years of Tory rule, Tony Blair’s party was positively welcomed into power with palm leaves laid at its feet.  No such change of tone for Kier Starmer and his hapless ministers.  Indeed, not just the Labour government but the entire liberal Establishment - no doubt as embodied at The Times and The Guardian – has quickly become fair game for the newspaper formerly derided as the Torygraph.  It seems that Donald’s Trump’s triumph in November has tipped the scales,and the DT’s owners and senior editors spy a radical shift in the polity and a chance for a revitalised commercial future.

Never has this been more apparent than today when the online site has overdosed on moral outrage at the decades-long political complicity with, and inaction against, Muslim child prostitution gangs.  One should, of course, bear in mind that prior to this the DT has had little interesting to say about the scandal.  It was The Times chief investigative reporter Andrew Norfolk who broke the omerta with coverage of the crimes committed in Rotherham.  The Times, it has to be said, has fallen silent on the scandal now; as the DT was until now.  But better late than never, the DT has published a clutch of pieces - at least five - in the wake of Labour Minister Jess Phillips’ rejection yesterday of a national public enquiry into events in the Lancashire town of Oldham.  One of the articles, which are all pay-walled, actually uses the term anti-white racism to describe the actions of authority.  That would have earned a DT commenter an instant ban not so long ago.  But now the native cat is out of the bag, and it won’t be put back.  The nationalist cat will be looking to follow!

The most impressive of the articles is titled How the grooming gangs scandal was covered up.  It is a joint effort by Sam Ashworth-Hayes, a leader writer and business columnist at the DT, and Charlie Peters, a National Reporter at GB News – a cooperation which itself shows the direction of travel at the DT.  The article is the best piece of journalism on the subject that I have seen for years.  It concludes with the following excoriating sentiments:

The state must leave no stone unturned in its efforts to root out this evil. As one victim told GB News, “a government inquiry is the only way to hold Oldham Council and Greater Manchester Police accountable for their huge failures that led to hundreds of survivors being mistreated and not listened to. A Telford-style inquiry will give answers to survivors but it won’t give justice to those who deserve it.”

As shadow justice minister Robert Jenrick recently wrote in these pages, “a national inquiry is just the start: we need justice for the victims”. In his words, “this appalling scandal continues today because perpetrators still walk free and the officials who covered it up have been let off. The individuals who turned a blind eye to these crimes – and fed the most vulnerable women to the wolves – should be in jail.”

Reform UK’s Rupert Lowe has called a “full, free and fair public inquiry” that will “show the British people the facts, and let them decide”.

“No stone must be left unturned” in holding the guilty to account, “including those who acted to cover up these atrocities”. For the guilty, Lowe’s prescription is simple: “deportations and prosecutions, lots of them”.

“Any man or woman found to be complicit in these crimes should be deported, including dual nationals who should have their citizenship stripped away. That includes family members who were aware of what their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers were participating in. Swift and brutal justice is required”.

And above all, concerns over multiculturalism must no longer be allowed to outweigh the need to keep the public safe. As Dampier points out, we “need an end to two-tier community relations and the application of the law equally to all”.

Robert Jenrick agrees: “to sustain order in multicultural Britain, the state considered it necessary to apply the law selectively. For decades the most appalling crimes from diaspora groups were legalised and actively covered up to prevent disorder. The rule of law was abandoned to sustain the myth that diversity is our strength, destroying the lives of thousands of working class white girls in the process. This scandal starts with the onset of mass migration. This appalling affair is the final nail in the coffin for liberals who cling to the argument that Britain is an integration success story. Mass migration must end immediately and the foreign nationals prosecuted for their monstrous crimes must be deported - no ifs, no buts”.

It may sound strong. But strong measures are required. The British state’s soft touch approach left this problem to fester and rot.
Children were abandoned to suffer in the name of community relations, an unforgivable price. And it was a price that brought nothing: harmony based on lies doesn’t last. Public fury is swelling, and there is more to be angry about than if the cases had been dealt with swiftly at the time. Indeed, abuse may still be taking place because the state failed to act properly before.

It’s time for a new approach. The truth must be brought to the light.

The political techtonics are shifting beneath the feet of the liberal Establishment.  The age of lies is coming to an end.