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Wednesday briefing: What Elon Musk’s focus on grooming gangs reveals about alt-right online discourse

In today’s newsletter: The owner of X, who previously said ‘civil war is inevitable’ in Britain, has stoked online unrest with incendiary comments about the UK

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The last inquiry failed grooming gang victims — we need a full national inquiry

It’s easy to get sucked into the online fight between Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, and the British government over the rape gangs scandal. But it risks us losing sight of what really matters: the victims and their needs.

Evening Standard

What's Happening to Canada?

Plus: CCP police station in NYC, Rotherham rape scandal, McDonald's scraps DEI nonsense, and more...

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Why is Elon Musk attacking Keir Starmer over the grooming scandal?

Owner of social media platform X has shared a series of posts about the British PM and other senior politicians

The Guardian - UK

Timeline of grooming cases and investigations in recent years

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced on Thursday that the Government will commission a series of local reviews into grooming gangs.

The Independent UK

The Observer view on calls for a national inquiry into child sexual abuse

The government’s most urgent priority is not to launch another review but to develop a societal strategy to tackle the crime

The Guardian - UK

Why are Elon Musk and Kemi Badenoch calling for a grooming scandal inquiry and why is Labour rejecting it?

The background to the inquiries that have been done and why the Home Office Minister has refused calls for a fresh investigation into historic child sexual abuse

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Elon Musk calls on King to dissolve Parliament in latest attack on UK Government

ELON Musk has continued his criticism of the Government, calling on the King to step in and dissolve Parliament...

The National (Scotland)

Elon Musk calls on King to dissolve Parliament over grooming gangs

The tech billionaire has continued his social media criticism of Sir Keir Starmer for the Government’s handling of the UK’s ‘rape gangs scandal’.

Evening Standard

‘They thought they were going to die’: the asylum seekers who survived rioters trying to burn down their accommodation

Four months on from the far-right violence that shocked the UK, what happened to the men living in a hotel that was targeted?

The Guardian - UK

Two former Rotherham police officers arrested over child sexual abuse

Offences alleged to have taken place in 1990s while ex-constables, now in their 50s and 60s, were on duty

The Guardian - UK

Rotherham rioter who tried to set fire to asylum seeker hotel is jailed for nine years

Levi Fishlock – who was ‘very identifiable’ in a purple England football shirt during the UK summer riots – has been given one of the stiffest sentences so far

The Independent UK

Man who fuelled hotel fire receives highest sentence for riot-related offence

A RIOTER who helped fuel a fire outside a hotel housing asylum seekers during last summer's riots in England…

The National (Scotland)

Man who fuelled hotel fire given joint highest riot-related sentence so far

Levi Fishlock was jailed for nine years over his role in the disorder outside the Holiday Inn Express at Manvers, Rotherham.

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Evening Standard

Two brothers found guilty of raping teenage girls almost 20 years ago

Mark Evans, 36, and Robert Evans, 40, were convicted on Wednesday after a two-week trial at Sheffield Crown Court.

Evening Standard

Minister criticises ‘failures’ in care of boy who died week after hospital visit

Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died on November 23 2022, eight days after he was seen at Rotherham Hospital and sent home with antibiotics.

Evening Standard

Family welcomes start of new investigation into death of boy sent home from A&E

Yusuf Mahmud Nazir, five, died eight days after he was seen at Rotherham Hospital and sent home with antibiotics.

Evening Standard

Rioter who lit fire in hotel car park during mob violence jailed for six years

Scott Greenwood admitted setting light to a generator outside a hotel housing more than 200 asylum seekers during rioting in Rotherham in August.

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Man whose truck was filled with debris used by rioters jailed for 27 months

Jake Turton, 38, was part of the disorder which broke out outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham

The Guardian - UK

Rioter found dead in jail is believed to have killed himself, inquest hears

Peter Lynch, 61, had been convicted of rioting outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham

Evening Standard

Man jailed over hotel rioting died from ‘hanging’ in prison, inquest told

Peter Lynch died on October 19 after he was jailed for two years and eight months for his part in the disorder outside a hotel housing asylum seekers.

Evening Standard

Man admits stoking fire outside hotel housing asylum seekers during riot

Levi Fishlock, 31, pleaded guilty to arson with intent to endanger the lives of dozens of people inside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham.

The Independent UK

Grandfather jailed over race riot at Rotherham asylum hotel dies in prison

Peter Lynch was sentenced to over two years for screaming abuse at police officers

Evening Standard

Grandfather jailed over rioting outside Rotherham hotel dies in prison

Peter Lynch, 61, was jailed in August for his part in the disorder outside the Holiday Inn Express, in Manvers.

Evening Standard

Man jailed for raping girl, 14, in Rotherham alley 21 years ago, NCA says

Waleed Ali, 42, was investigated by the force’s probe into historic allegations of abuse in the Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.

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