Summary

DHH reacts to Rupert Lowe's newly released 'Rape Gang Inquiry Report,' which documents decades of industrial-scale sexual abuse of mostly White British girls by predominantly Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs, estimating 250,000 victims. He argues the horror is compounded by the complicity of the very institutions meant to protect children—police, social services, the NHS, schools, and taxi licensing authorities—who ignored, criminalized, or actively abetted the abuse. He then connects this to two related concerns: the BBC's failure to cover the report at all amid plummeting public trust in British media, and the UK's push for digital ID and age verification that would end online anonymity under a 'protect the children' justification. DHH frames it as bitterly ironic that a state which failed to prevent these atrocities now seeks expanded surveillance powers over a country already leading the world in arrests for online speech. His conclusion is that Britain's institutions have catastrophically betrayed their citizens, and that delaying justice for the victims is dangerous.

Key Insight

DHH argues that British institutions not only failed to stop mass grooming-gang abuse but abetted it, and are now exploiting 'child protection' rhetoric to expand surveillance and suppress speech—a betrayal compounded by a complicit, untrusted media.

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• 6

  The closest comparison to these accounts is the atrocities committed during times of war, but somehow this seems worse.

• 6

  The terror did not come as a result of losing an armed conflict, but aided and abetted by the national institutions sworn to serve and protect.

• 7

  You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce a connection between narrative-driven coverage (and absence of it!) and lower trust.

• 8

  So a state that not only failed to prevent these sexual atrocities, but in many cases abetted the horrors, now wants to end anonymity online to 'protect children', so it can prosecute even more regime critics?

• 7

  The same country that leads the world with 12,000 yearly arrests for online speech already? It's painfully on the nose.

• 3

  It's tragic what the Brits have had and continue to endure. They deserve so much better.

• 4

  Making them wait much longer is a dangerous cocktail.

Tone

outraged, polemical, accusatory