by C J Strachan on Substack
The silence is deafening and Google seems to be suppressing searches related to the report: independent and crowd funded and organised by Restore Britain. A final insult to victims.
Yesterday, independent MP Rupert Lowe and the Restore Britain team published the 219-page independent report into the grooming gangs scandal. Titled the Rape Gang Inquiry, it was independently funded and had limited cross party support. It pulls together survivor accounts, whistleblower evidence, and lessons from previous failures like Rotherham. The findings are stark: up to 250,000 vulnerable girls, mostly White British, systematically targeted, groomed, raped, and trafficked over decades across at least 149 local authority areas. The perpetrators were predominantly groups of Pakistani Muslim men. The report lays bare the institutional collapse: police, councils, social services, and yes, the media, who looked the other way for fear of racism accusations.
It calls for real action: mandatory minimum sentences, deportations for foreign offenders, better victim support, and a new Childhood Sexual Exploitation Act. This is not some fringe document. It is crowdfunded by ordinary people demanding accountability.
So where was the coverage?
Sky News gave it a brief mention tied to the National Crime Agency reopening cold cases. GB News covered it properly, as did some pieces in The Telegraph. But the big hitters? BBC, ITV, Channel 4, The Guardian, The Times, Daily Mail, The Sun, Mirror? Largely absent. No front pages, no dedicated broadcasts dissecting the executive summary or the recommendations. This is the same pattern we have seen for years. Official inquiries get amplified when they fit the narrative. An independent effort from a critic of the establishment? Silence.