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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Spectator magazine is home to wonderful writing, insightful analysis and unrivaled books and arts reviews. |
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0:19.4 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator, where each week we shed a little light on the thought process behind putting the world's oldest weekly magazine to bed. |
0:32.3 | I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's Executive Editor. And I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
0:38.2 | This week, Julie Bindall on what justice would look like for the victims of the grooming gangs. |
0:43.4 | Elizabeth Dampia explains why she's voting for Germany's AFD. |
0:48.0 | And Damien Thompson takes us down a peculiar YouTube rabbit hole. |
0:59.6 | Thank you. a peculiar YouTube rabbit hole. First up, in his cover piece for the magazine this week, |
1:03.0 | Douglas Murray writes about the conspiracy of silence around the grooming gangs, |
1:07.3 | and he offers his view on what justice would look like for the perpetrators. |
1:12.0 | He also encourages the government to take a step back and consider its own failings and he writes |
1:16.7 | that if any government or political party wants to do something about the scandal, they will need |
1:21.7 | to stop reviewing and start acting. Where to begin? One good starting point would be to work out |
1:27.0 | why Pakistani rapists in Britain |
1:28.8 | seem to have more rights than their victims. And here's an extract from Douglas explaining more |
1:34.1 | on the spectator TV. It's almost 25 years since various people, in particular in towns |
1:41.5 | in the north of England, places like Rotherham, Rochdale, |
1:45.7 | parents of girls started saying that their girls were being groomed by men who were soon after |
1:52.1 | euphemistically described as Asians whenever they were described in the British press. But it wasn't |
1:57.8 | just white working class people who seems somehow very easy to disparage and dismiss. |
2:04.4 | It was also Sikh and Hindu communities who said that some similar things were happening with their daughters. |
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