Stephen Small FCMI

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[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Old school environmentalism. 🌳

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Why Will The Media Not Ask Andy Burnham About Operation Hexagon?

By Raja Miah @recusant_raja

There is an operation Greater Manchester Police will not name. The press will not name it either. It has a name. Operation Hexagon.

A police operation was built to hunt the people who exposed the rape of children in Oldham. The man who held authority over it is walking towards Downing Street.

They Built An Operation To Hunt The Whistleblowers
Operation Hexagon was a joint enterprise between Greater Manchester Police, Oldham Council and Labour Party politicians. The grooming gangs were never its target. Neither were the men who shielded them. The machinery was aimed at the whistleblowers, and at the ordinary people who dared to ask how children came to be raped in Oldham.

Read that back slowly. A police force and a political party, working in concert, turned on the citizens who demanded accountability. The abusers were left untouched. The people exposing them were placed under the lens.

I can speak to Hexagon because Hexagon came for me.

Officers were sent to build cases against me that had no foundation. They repeatedly raided my house at dawn. The Crown Prosecution Service was turned into an instrument for manufacturing evidence to put me in the dock. Every charge collapsed. Every allegation was dismissed.

That is what an official police operation was made into. A machine for assembling false cases against a man whose only offence was refusing to look away while children were raped.

The Authority Ran Straight To Andy Burnham
Hexagon did not run in a vacuum. It ran under a chain of command, and that chain ends at Andy Burnham.

As Mayor of Greater Manchester, Burnham holds the powers of the police and crime commissioner. He has held authority over Greater Manchester Police since 2017. Oldham is the epicentre of the scandal and the focus of Hexagon, and Oldham sits inside his remit. An operation of this kind, run in his force, in his region, against the critics of a cover up, does not happen beyond the reach of the man who commands the force.

He has never answered for it. He stood in election after election and said nothing. The silence of the man who held the authority is itself the answer.

They Buried The Whole Thing

You have not read about Operation Hexagon in your newspaper. That is by design.

Freedom of Information requests are refused with practised ease. The press that rushes to report every other case of police misconduct keeps its distance from this one. An operation confirmed to exist is reported as though it never happened. The blackout is the cover up that guards the cover up.

The Man Who Oversaw It Is Walking Into Downing Street
Here is why this matters now beyond anything it mattered before. Andy Burnham is on the road to Number Ten. The man who held authority over a police operation aimed at the whistleblowers of a child rape scandal is about to become the most powerful figure in the country.

Operation Hexagon should have finished his career. It has been allowed to sit as a footnote that no one in Westminster and no one in the press will read aloud.

Which is why it is left to us.

Imagine this, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom dragged kicking and screaming in front of a national inquiry into the cover up of the Pakistani Rape Gangs where he is forced to testify under oath and defend his own actions.

You don't have to imagine it. You just need to help me make it happen.

For 8 years I've exposed how politicians and police covered up the gang rape of working-class White girls by Pakistani grooming gangs. I, with the support of the people of Oldham, led the campaign that forced the National Inquiry. Now, with your help, we will force this inquiry to a place it does not want to go.

As Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham fronted a series of Assurance Reviews of which one was in my hometown of Oldham. It was a cover-up of a cover-up. It tried to bury the truth. Don't believe me? Ask Maggie Oliver. Even she has come to the same conclusion.

Despite Burnham's efforts to help hide what took place, we forced a national inquiry. Whilst previously defending the robustness of his now exposed cover up, Burnham is now trying his best to rewrite the truth of what he really did.

Unfortunately, as of yet, the national inquiry will not investigate Burnham or his actions and his deceit will go unchallenged. We hope to change this before the investigation starts in Oldham.

Once Burnham is in Downing Street, the pressure to protect him will be immense. The institutions that failed these girls will try everything possible not to hold a PM accountable. Much of the press will look away, as always. This is why it is up to us to carry the truth.

Which is why I'm turning this community of readers into something more than what I can manage on my own. We need to grow and become an independent investigative outlet with:

• A professional website to reach larger audiences
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Before Burnham reaches Number 10, Red Wall and the Rabble needs 2,000 more paid subscribers to help grow and become more than a one man operation. With your help, we can do in towns and cities across the country what we have done in Oldham.

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Should we succeed, politicians will go to prison. It is as simple as that. Surely, on this prospect alone, it is worth your support.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

David Lammy’s plan to appoint for diversity not merit is probably unlawful.

So I asked to publish his legal advice.

He says it’s "not in the public interest" - and told me to submit an FOI!

What does he have to hide?

[Michael Reiners @MCRReiners]

‘Manchesterism’, a decidedly undefined term, can be best explained by this clip.

Most things can be best explained by a clip from Yes Minister.

[Stephen Small FCMI @G4HJE]

@Eman5695 👍

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

She left her daughter in a darkened cinema in Paris and promised she'd be back before the film ended.
Marie-Claude was twelve. She waited in her seat long after the screen went black.
Her mother never came back that day. Do you know why?
Odette Fabius had slipped out to warn her Resistance friends that the Gestapo was closing in. She was too late — they caught her first.
Born in 1910 into an old French-Jewish family, Odette had every reason to keep her head down. She chose the opposite.
She joined the réseau Alliance in November 1941, a network feeding intelligence straight to the British. That choice would cost her almost everything.
By April 1943 she was in a Marseille prison cell, labeled a "dangerous terrorist" and held in total isolation. Two months later they moved her to Fresnes, outside Paris. Still she gave nothing away.
Then came 31 January 1944. A train. A convoy of a thousand women, prisoner numbers all beginning with 27. Hers was 27393.
She arrived at Ravensbrück before dawn on 3 February, into snow and smoke and a silence that felt like the end of the world.
But Odette had no intention of disappearing quietly.
She tried to escape. Think about that — surrounded by walls and guards, weak and starving, she still ran.
Three days later, they found her.
The punishment was 50 strokes, delivered in the yard while others were forced to watch. The officer counted, waiting for her to break.
She made no sound. Not one. According to the account passed down with her story, when he demanded to know how she could stay silent, she answered simply that she was French — and that was the whole of it.
Eight days in an isolation cell followed. Then the Strafblock, the punishment barracks.
A fellow prisoner, the artist Dorothea, sketched her right after — thin, shaved, wounded, still upright. That drawing now hangs in the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris, so no one forgets.
Here's what almost ended it.
By early 1945 Odette was failing. A camp doctor named Anne Spoerry hid her inside the infirmary from January to April, shielding her from the selections that took so many others.
That quiet act of courage is the reason this story has a finish at all.
In April 1945, days before Germany surrendered, the Red Cross brought her out through Sweden. She spent a month in a deep unconsciousness before slowly waking in a small town where a school had become a hospital.
She lived another 45 years.
She wrote her memoirs in 1986, was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour, and carried five separate decorations — including, fittingly, the medal awarded to those who escaped.
Marie-Claude, the little girl from the cinema, grew up, survived the war with her father, and lived to tell her mother's story to the people who'd listen.
When asked decades later whether her mother should have risked so much, she didn't hesitate. She said her mother could never have been any other way. That was simply who she was.
Some people are taken from this world. A rare few refuse to be erased from it.
Odette Fabius was one of them.

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

Yes, we were actually trusted with things like this. How did we survive?

[Navy Lookout @NavyLookout]

As we have previously reported, HMS Richmond and HMS Iron Duke were actually withdrawn some time ago and have been stripped of equipment - the DIP finally admits they are to be scrapped.

No decommissioning ceremonies permitted.

The material state of HMS Portland continues to be a concern.

Photo: Ex-HMS Richmond in the basin at Devonport, June 2026

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'Today was the day that benefits Britain won and our armed forces lost.'

@Nanaakua1 breaks down why Keir Starmer's extra £15 billion of defence spending is 'still not enough' and leaves the armed forces 'woefully underfunded'.

[Independent Women @IWF]

Justice Thomas said what many Americans have been saying all along: truth matters.

“To use language to obscure reality … is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens ‘as equal[s].’”

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Trees. Let’s plant more.

[Stephen Small FCMI @G4HJE]

@Theworld119944 Condenser or capacitor depending upon your age.

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

On her pilgrimage to the Holy Land, @ArchbishSarah spent all her energy damning Israel. Yet:
🔹Israel is the safest and freest country in the Middle East for Christians;
🔹 Palestinian society significantly persecutes Christians;
🔹 The biggest global threat to Christians is jihadism, not the Jews;
🔹 Israel is a key ally on the frontline of that struggle.
So what motivated the Archbishop to persuade the world that the friends of the Church are its enemies, and its enemies are its friends?
My @Telegraph column today:
https://t.co/NkUEx24NKC

[The Bluebird Project @bluebirdk7]

Just look at this disgraceful display. Where's the H&S person? Not one of these has been retrofitted with air bags or anti-lock brakes! Oh, & the pollution!

[Yesterday's Britain, A Better Britain. @YesterdaysBrit1]

Margate 70 years ago.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

If the investigation into this cover up proves that Sadiq had been lying all along, he should go

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

I remember Sadiq Khan pretending not to know what grooming gangs were when he downplayed them in London.

Now the Met Police will reopen 4k grooming gang cases.

This increasingly looks like a cover up for one of the worst crimes in humanity. Making his Knighthood more sickening.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

The thing that doesn’t happen has happened again…

The BBC reports it as a man charged with ‘rape and murder of a girl’ …. but really she was a 2 YEAR OLD BABY! … By a ‘French’ man born in central Africa.

I can’t call this ‘Alien culture’ because other women have a tantrum.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

Sadiq Khan and Mark Rowley PUBLICLY DENIED they knew about Pakistani rape gangs in London.

It's now been revealed more than 4,000 potential cases could now be reopened and Sadiq Khan had *already seen the evidence*.

This is a *blatant* cover-up.
They BOTH need to go!