Why would you want an inquiry that had been appointed by Jess Phillips or Keir Starmer? Refusing one is a bad look on their parts, but what if they had said yes? Who would have been on it? More to the point, who would not have been? Those who would be loudest in bemoaning that, were you among the objectors to the failure to include people with experiences directly relevant to the inquiry into Grenfell Tower? Look how long Hillsborough took, and even now we are expected to accept that 97 people were unlawfully killed by no one. And who would want another Hutton Report? That is not a rhetorical question. There are people who would, and we are ruled by them.
As a sign that, in the quest for truth and justice, the lead was being taken by the wrong sort, Nigel Farage has effectively broken with Elon Musk and with his own base by once again disowning Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, Lee Anderson has had to order a Yaxley-Lennonist heckler out of a Reform UK members only event, and even from solitary confinement Yaxley-Lennon is reprising on a much larger stage the role in which he very nearly caused a rape gang trial to collapse in 2018, just as in 2004 the endorsement of the BNP had compelled Channel 4 to pull a documentary on such matters lest it provoke race riots. It may be fun to watch these ferrets in a sack, but it does the victims no good.
Child sexual abuse is no more or less a part of Islamic culture than it is of any other. Was Jimmy Savile a Muslim? Was Cyril Smith? Was Greville Janner? Was Jeffrey Epstein, one of whose closest friends is soon to be named British Ambassador to the United States? In London today, there was a demonstration in support of Marcus Fakana, who is in prison in Dubai because the age of consent there is 18. At one year, Fakana's sentence has already been reduced by 95 per cent. In conquering Syria, Palestine and Egypt, Amr ibn al-As, companion of Muhammad, had clearly acquainted himself with their existing culture, since he is reported to have decried the man who, "sees the mote in the eye of his brother, yet places a beam in his own eye."