Interesting. The piece includes a video (15:09) of Matt speaking on the Casey report. My comments on male victims and female perpetrators has attracted more attention than I was expecting.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Rotherham.. Rochdale… Telford… Oldham…Huddersfield… Newcastle
Labour-run.
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exactly. And Jess Phillips, the minister dead set against a National Inquiry, very nearly lost her seat to an Islamist “independent” last election. Here “up north” all eyes are on Bradford and Blackburn ….. will their role be unmasked at last? And is it really credible for the Met. In London not to have any such gangs in their many boroughs?
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I honestly believe that Phillips et al thought that everything could be swept under the carpet again by some downbeat ‘local inquiries’ which would be totally eclipsed by a stage-managed ‘City of Culture’ for Children.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2y1ynxl3o
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Their belief was perfectly rational because exactly that scenario has been the case for over a decade. With a parade of local reports (chronicled in section two of the Casey report) serious case reviews and even Ministry of Justice inquiries successfully ignored and sidelined. Used in fact to keep up the “narrative” in media and public discourse that even if there is some problem it exists in a few benighted “northern towns”. Reporting and debate obsesses about Rochdale and Rotherham as if these are the only places this has ever occurred.
To be honest I will not be surprised if the supposed “national inquiry” in fact has its terms of reference limited to those towns already notorious and avoids other places that are suspiciously quiet on the subject, like Bradford and Blackburn and indeed some boroughs of Greater London. Much will depend on how independent the Chair is. And I suspect it they won’t repeat the error of appointing Baroness Casey. In reporting everything she could data wise so anyone can see the sheer scale. After all the previous Government got Alexis Jay to author a “national” inquiry of only six towns carefully selected to not have any such gangs, and issue a “nothing to see here” report. Then used in the media to rubbish the “Quillette” report which Casey has mirrored.
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Apologies it was the Quilliam foundation report. https://youtu.be/AUngnhT3cqc?si=AothhYnqK6ApJV0F
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