Phillip

European by geography and kinship. Birmingham born & bred.

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

It is shameful that we even have to do this. That a report this shallow, this lazy, this nakedly bigoted can land and be swallowed whole, while the journalists whose job is to take it apart simply look away. So we will do their work for them.

Lowe's "Rape Gang Inquiry" takes a real and painful truth and bends it into something else. The abuse in towns like Rotherham and Rochdale happened. Children were failed for years by police and councils too frightened to act, and in some of those places men of Pakistani heritage were genuinely over-represented. Baroness Casey's official audit said so plainly. We will not insult the survivors by pretending any of that away. But that truth is exactly what is being hijacked.

Here is the sleight of hand. Every serious source- Casey, the Home Office, the Jay Inquiry- treats this as a Pakistani-heritage problem rooted in clan, kinship and cover-up. Lowe quietly swaps the word "Pakistani" for "Muslim" and then puts Islam itself in the dock. That one switch is the whole trick, and nothing in his 219 pages earns it.

Pull on his evidence, and it comes apart in your hands. The headline "87% had Muslim names" is not a government figure. It is a list one anti-Islam author drew up himself, guessing men's religion from their names and counting only those convicted, in a category he had already decided was Asian.

The "250,000 victims" was never a count. It started as a throwaway line from a former UKIP peer who multiplied Rotherham's numbers across the entire country. He then drapes these numbers in phrases like "forced Islamic conversion" so the whole thing reads as a holy war.

He even blames immigration for rising rape by pointing at Poland, ignoring that crime figures between countries measure how willing victims are to come forward, not how much actually happens.

And here is what they never tell you. The overwhelming majority of child sexual abuse in this country is committed by white men, inside families and online, and most of it never surfaces at all.

The government's own 2020 research found group offenders are most commonly white. By aiming his torch at one narrow corner and leaving the rest in darkness, Lowe makes a sliver of cases look like the face of the whole crime, and makes child abuse look like something foreigners carried in.

The religious claim is almost too crude to dignify. Islam forbids fornication, rape, alcohol, harming children and forcing anyone into faith. A man who spits "kuffar" while doing what his religion condemns is no more acting on Islam than the countless abusers exposed inside the Church were acting on Christianity. Nobody put Christianity on trial for them. That double standard is the entire game.

Read to the last page and the real purpose is impossible to miss. A report about protecting children does not end in deporting millions, stripping citizenship and reviving the death penalty. Lowe says migrants have "colonised" Britain and that he will "remove millions," and his followers cheered it as proof of a "great replacement." This was never a safeguarding document. It is an anti-immigration manifesto wearing the suffering of abused girls as a costume.

And it does not stay on the page. This is the rhetoric that thickens the air before the violence comes. Anti-Muslim hate is already at record levels, with more than 6,300 cases logged in 2024, up 165 per cent in two years. We watched where it leads after Southport, when a single lie about the killer sent mobs to set mosques alight. Days after Lowe's report, five men were attacked across Edinburgh, and a man was arrested as counter-terror officers moved in.

The Prime Minister himself said the suspect appeared driven by anti-Muslim hatred. The Muslim Council of Britain called it the direct consequence of rhetoric that demonises whole communities. No, you cannot pin one attacker on one report, and we will not pretend to. But you do not get to pour petrol across a country for years and then act shocked at the fire.

That is why we have no choice but to answer this. Not because it has earned a response, but because too many people with far louder platforms refuse to give one.

[Sam @SamCKx]

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated.

On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades.

After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced.

We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...

[Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh]

All still suckling at the teat.

[Mandy Arthur @mandyarthur]

Hey @Grok, did Israel push Meta to DELETE nearly 100,000 anti-Israel & pro-Iran posts? Be concise. No spin.

[Jacob Tanswell @J_Tanswell]

New: Boubacar Kamara is targeting a return to fitness for the start of pre-season. 26yo has been working at Bodymoor Heath and while Villa continue to monitor him daily, is hoping to feature in the club's friendly matches. @TheAthleticFC #AVFC

https://t.co/3JAteBuSQo

[Reiss 🦩 @ReissOmari]

First time looking around Goods Yard in the JQ, love seeing how many independents have opened so far, quite a few units still available too and a dedicated entrance into JQ tram/train station.

Some finishing touches pending but a lovely area. More of this in Birmingham please!

[bella @bellacfc]

i think people who are quick to jump on emma hayes purely for being a woman (and feeling threatened by her tactical knowledge) should give this a watch

[Jonathan Collett @JonCollett]

Up the Villa! #PrinceofWales #AVFC

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I enjoyed every second of this interview. Which makes one of us…

[Conn @ConnCFC]

Funny thing I find about this Emma Hayes slander and people saying “she managed a woman’s team not men’s” is the fact she regularly beat male coaches to trophies with Chelsea.

No mention of that tho is there

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The ‘Right-Wing Arms Race’ to Deport Non-White Britons – Backed By the Tufton Street Brexit Lobby — @NafeezAhmed

EXCLUSIVE: A dark money lobbying network backed by a Reform UK donor is hosting figures pushing for the forced removal of millions of ethnic-minority citizens from the UK, reports Nafeez Ahmed

🔗 https://t.co/n0KvcW8DCV

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

@SarahForRuncorn Difficult to articulate just how stupid this is from an MP. Rather than putting the responsibility for domestic abuse onto England's footballers, how about telling domestic abusers not to be domestic abusers?

[Scunthorpe United FC @SUFCOfficial]

🤝 𝐈𝐑𝐎𝐍 𝐱 𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀

Like rolling back the clock to when we sold Neil Cox!

A massive thank you to Aston Villa, who allowed us to have some of their seating as they renovate their stadium. The seats serve as spares for any damages which are incurred throughout the season.

#UTI #IRON

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[3four3 @3four3]

It's not that he doesn't run.
He doesn't even walk.
He just stands there. 😂

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Kyle Kulinski: “Tax every penny in net worth somebody has over $999M at 100%. It’s a no billionaires tax, no trillionaires tax. We’ll send you a fucking plaque in the mail that says I won at capitalism. We already have Gilded Age level income and wealth inequality. I’m surprised people aren’t breaking out the motherfucking guillotines already”

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

⚠️WARNING: distressing details of child sexual abuse⚠️

-See the plump bloke in the ‘For the Children’ shirt who REALLY didn’t want to talk to me about Far Right sex offenders down in Brighton on Saturday?

He has VERY good reasons for that…
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[Seth @fiercepatricks]

No one is meaner than a homophobic religious man that is secretly gay