Britain started off 2025 being asked questions in the way that a man caught making love to a goat would be asked questions. This relates to the country’s worst post-war crisis of Muslim, predominately Pakistani gangs, operating up and down the spine of England, who have raped, gang-raped, exploited, and trafficked thousands upon thousands of young, white working-class English girls since the 1970s (250,000 by some reports).

In the early 2000s the horror accelerated, culminating in the Jay Report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham (2014). That year I was sent a draft copy in Johannesburg.

Four years of more research later and I thought I’d write about it in 2018. How did that one go? One editor shat on me, another got his intersectional climate desk to shit on me. This was followed by the founding onanist of the Atlantic Seaboard’s white liberal bukkake forum, who tried to get me fired then harassed my colleagues. With respect, Elon Musk is not entitled to seize this tragedy as new; some of us met a few of the victims over a course of a decade, then watched as the British state shamelessly sought to blame them for being gang raped – something made worse only by the behaviour of certain liberal politicians from both parties, who eyed those blooming Pakistani communities as ripe constituencies and consciously made the decision to breach the most fundamental laws of human decency to avoid offending “minorities”.

There are two main groups responsible. The first were inchoate and depraved and the second were just as bad, if not worse. They were the editors, the producers, the left-wing lawyers, the grievance professors, the NGO bosses, and the party faithful wheeled out onto television show panels to diminish the severity of crimes – the defenders of the indefensible, who twisted justice from its original form into a demented, metropolitan construct carelessly stacked upon concession and interpretation.

Murder by political correctness

Under these people, a 14-year-old girl called Charlene Downes became the UK’s first victim of murder by political correctness: after being raped repeatedly, her Muslim captors fed her lifeless body into a kebab grinder. It is this group that constitute today’s progressive English; even if Keir Starmer wasn’t Prime Minister, his profile as a Fabian ideologue embittered by envy captures the (white) men and (white) women in this scandal who spend their lives trying to convince the world that attitudes have changed: no longer are they the imperialists but the anti-racists for whom diversity is a chronic addiction.

It shouldn’t surprise you that The Church of England, very much a progressive feature and no stranger to child exploitation itself, has suggested that one way out of this maelstrom was to identify with Islam. ‘We are all Muslim,’ one of its many buffoonish clerics suggested last year.

White progressives in Simon’s Town, West Hollywood, or Islington will tell you that Britain lost (what was only ever the myth of) its exceptionalism when it didn’t lock down quickly enough in 2020. That’s hysterical: it was – and is – this scandal that broke it, and I saw it happen with my own eyes. Since the release of the initial Jay Report the tragedy has stalked the consciences of the sensible.

This unimaginable terror, possibly the greatest flourishing crime wave across a supposedly civilised nation in living memory, has eaten its way into the lives of people who were once be proud of their country for the millions of hours its people sacrifice for good causes, or its occasional Olympic gold medal caches, or its (increasingly unfamiliar) commitment to order. That the tragedy happened shocked them; that little to nothing was done about it contaminated their patriotism like a chemical fog. And when once reasonable commentators such as Peter Oborne dismissed growing outrage as a “moral panic”, it broke them.

Tech bros

Again, with respect, this isn’t made better by influential tech bros in 2025. In 2014 it needed revolution – but instead got obfuscation, prevarication, counter accusations, and cover-ups. Two things have happened in the last decade that cast doubt upon the effectiveness of Elon’s scrutiny beyond a prompt to rage. The first is that the officials directly responsible in law enforcement and council leadership were rewarded for their atrocious, cowardly conduct – some were transferred to other positions of similar authority, some were even promoted. Then the progressive system was upgraded: white progressives today occupy the majority of the civil service, the judiciary, both main political parties, the media, the creative industries, and the police.

A few days’ worth indignation on X isn’t exactly going to unwind this self-destructive vortex of upward failure, pandering and social engineering.

Why was there an attempt to smother the crisis? After a decade researching I’m resigned to three explanations. The first is that white working-class girls are England’s white Afrikaans farmers, or its American small business owners, or Canadian truckers trapped in a tyrannical lockdown for the sake of a “public health emergency”. They share one feature: they are all detested by today’s white progressive.

The second relates to the rampant growth of Islam in Britain, where occasionally a pressure vessel ruptures. This happened in July when senior Labour MPs either lost their seats or came close to defeat by pro-Gaza independents, who were previously aligned to their own party.

The third involves the failure of the police for reasons you should be familiar with: they did not respond appropriately because their drag acts had already paid for venue hire and the owner wasn’t prepared to refund them.

Road to hell

The road to hell is paved with pathological asshattery. You may be tempted to relief at the departure of Justin Castro in Canada – complimenting the suspicion that the Western white progressive may be going out of vogue politically – but there are jerks left yet in the dying horse.

The same logic that failed to protect those young girls born between life’s cracks also failed to respond appropriately to the coordinated attack on Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris a decade ago. The same logic went on to erect the censorship models, the quantitative easing, the upwards (or statewards) transfers of wealth – and will soon start taxing volcanoes in Hawaii to defeat climate change.

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Simon Reader grew up in Cape Town before moving to Johannesburg in 2001, where he was an energy entrepreneur until 2014. In South Africa, he wrote a weekly column for Business Day, then later Biznews.com. Today he manages a fund based in London, is a trustee of an educational charity, and lives between the UK and California.