PRESS GANG

ELON MUSK’s dramatic interventions have added rocket fuel to the “Asian grooming gangs” issue.

Last Thursday he tweeted:

Free Tommy Robinson!

Robinson is currently serving a gaol sentence for contempt of court over the issue.

A few hours later Musk attacked Keir Starmer over his handling of grooming cases while Director of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS):

Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice?

Musk — already known as America’s “Shadow President” for his massive financial backing of Donald Trump — is also threatening to intervene directly in British politics.

He’s reported to be considering a $100m donation to the Reform Party — led and partly-owned by Nigel Farage.

The “Asian grooming gangs” narrative is a key component of the rising tide of anti-Muslim media coverage in Britain …

… and Musk is not the only one to jump on the bandwagon.

The issue was first made respectable by the Times.

The paper published a sensational series of articles back in 2011 which claimed to have discovered the new crime of “on-street” sexual grooming of young girls by British Muslims.

Far right groups claimed these articles proved they “had been right all along about Muslim paedophile gangs”.

Ever since, the Times and its reporter Andrew Norfolk have become key cheerleaders in the surge of anti-Muslim reporting in mainstream newspapers.

But their original investigation was seriously flawed.

Today Press Gang republishes two articles which exposed the questionable methods used to create the “Asian grooming gangs” narrative.

The first — “Grooming …” — found that Norfolk and the Times left out a series of vicious grooming gangs who were white.

The second — “Early Warnings” — shows that even before publication there was powerful evidence that their thesis was wrong…

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https://paddyfrench.substack.com/p/elon-musk-weaponising-grooming-gangs?r=o41j8

BREAKING

Evidence that Jewish Chronicle and Melanie Phillips are parroting falsehoods about Gaza …

… this new scandal could have been prevented if press watchdog Ipso had taken action against the paper at its December board meeting.

https://open.substack.com/pub/paddyfrench/p/jewish-chronicle-parroting-falsehoods

Is Britain’s broadcasting watchdog Ofcom

— pro-Israel and

— ant-Muslim?

Will it investigate Sky News over whitewashing violence by Israeli football supporters in Amsterdam?

Will it investigate claims that GB News is openly anti-Muslim?

https://open.substack.com/pub/paddyfrench/p/ofcom-pro-israel-anti-muslim?r=o41j8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

SKY NEWS SCANDAL

Sky’s decision to pull a November 9 report on the violence in Amsterdam is under fire.

31,000 people have signed a petition calling on Ofcom to investigate.

And an investigation by the New York Times seriously undermines Sky’s revised version.

SKY NEWS 

Did the pro-Israel views of Sky News editor Sandy Rashty affect the channel’s coverage of the violence in Amsterdam? 

https://open.substack.com/pub/paddyfrench/p/sky-fall?r=o41j8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

BREAKING

LUKE AKEHURST 

— did he break House of Commons rules when he accepted a donation from a foreign national?

— and did he fail to register a gift from an important pro-Israel lobbyist? 

Press Gang investigates …

https://open.substack.com/pub/paddyfrench/p/parachute-luke-tel-aviv-south?