This essay, on the women who first exposed the story of the grooming gangs, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 12 January 2025, under the headline “The right is trying to rewrite history with its toxic rhetoric on Britain’s rape gangs”. “It has taken a man of Elon Musk’s influence to drag this into the light,” claims the Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe. The US tech entrepreneur’s discovery of Britain’s grooming gangs scandal, and his tirade of derogatory tweets directed […]

Categories: Britain, Class, Women • Tags: anna hall, elon musk, grooming gangs, julie bindel, matt goodwin, muslim women's network, rape gangs, samira ahmed, suzanne moore