I'm Sure There Are More Sympathetic Genuine Victims Of Grooming Gangs...

...but yet the ones the left wing media presents are never really too convincing, when you look at them with an eye unjandiced by identity politics ayway:

"It was the thrill of being with a bad boy." Christine was 13 when she began exchanging messages online with someone she believed was a teenage boy. On their first meeting, she discovered he was a grown man 10 years older than herself. He also told her he was involved with gangs and drugs. 

"I always knew, OK, he's probably hurt someone, but in terms of hurting me, I didn't think it would get to that point," she says.

The nihilism and selfishness of a hardened career streetwalker, in a  13 year old.Thanks, diversity!

Over the next few years, he would use Christine to courier drugs, subject her to extreme sexual exploitation, and assault her so violently she feared she might die. Christine is one of four women who have chosen to waive their anonymity and speak publicly to the BBC documentary, Britain's Forgotten Girls, about how they were targeted by criminals when they were children.

And willingly became criminals in their turn. 

The thrill of feeling wanted was also what led Annie, from south-east London, into the clutches of a gang. At first, she says she "felt quite in awe, quite excited to have the attention" of three older boys who wanted to befriend her, even though she knew they were involved in drugs.

All believe the authorities failed to protect them and did not take their allegations seriously.

And naturally, so does 'The Guardian', fully invested in portray these women as helpless victims of men’s misdoings.

The BBC says it has been told that parental neglect is a common misclassification by social workers of sexual assault involving young girls. It’s not clear whether this is because it makes for a smaller workload or because they are untrained in seeing what’s really going on – but perhaps, given that either seems like a huge dereliction of duty, it doesn’t matter.

So invested that they are even prepared to disapprove of social workers! 

What we might call the first officially missed opportunity to help what was estimated to be at least16500 children at risk was the reaction to the national inquiry led by the then deputy children’s commissioner Sue Berelowitz. Those 2013 findings were largely lost in a welter of recriminations and accusations that the report (which found drug gang abuse cut across all demographics) underplayed the role of ethnicity. It was as if the preceding scandal about grooming gangs had used up the media and public’s allowance of sympathy and at the same time set up a popular narrative from which they didn’t want to deviate.

No, it’s not an equivalent, no matter how much you might want to claim that. 

So we have another film documenting another set of wilful, persistent and profound failures of the system to carry out the protective duties it supposedly exists precisely to perform, another film testifying to the perception of girls and women as second-class citizens, as sirens who bring it on themselves, and another frightening look into the moral, social and cultural abyss that shows no signs of closing.

That abyss is one that’s prevalent in the black community and if you ignore the elephant in the room, you’ll never resolve it. 

If There's No Stigma Why Are You 'Working To Break The Cycle'?

The Princess of Wales has called for an end to the "stigma" surrounding addiction, and urged people to offer "empathy and support" to those dependent on alcohol, drugs or gambling.

Another mistake, abolishing shame as the Left wanted us to do hasn’t ushered in a paradise on earth, has it? 

Catherine, who sent the message to mark Addiction Awareness Week, said "significant progress" has been made to better understand addiction, but warned more needs to be done. The princess is the patron of The Forward Trust, a charity that tries to break the cycle of addiction and is behind the campaign running from 23-30 November.

Ah, a mouthpiece and figurehead, like her long lost mother-in-law-who-never-was. Just another modern example of why the Monarchy is no longer something we can be proud of.  

She said addiction was "not a choice or a personal failing, but a complex mental health condition that should be met with empathy and support".

We have enough of those going untreated and their sufferers free to spread misery already, don’t we? Why add more? 

She added: "But still, even now in 2025, people's experience of addiction is shaped by fear, shame and judgement. This needs to change. 

"The stigma surrounding those who face addiction allows it to thrive behind closed doors, impacting families and communities, and ultimately ruining lives."

Are the progressives determined to strip every last vestige of personal choice from everything? Sorry, rhetorical question, I guess…

Grim, Hopefully, As It Should Be In Our Prisons....

A British teenager - eight months pregnant and charged with drugs smuggling - is awaiting sentencing in prison in Georgia, South Caucasus. A payment of £137,000 by her family will reduce her sentence but what are the days like for Bella Culley, incarcerated 2,600 miles (4,180km) from home?

Who cares? Why the focus on this particular idiot drugs mule? There's plenty of them to choose from... 

Lyanne Kennedy says her daughter has been boiling pasta in a kettle and toasting bread over a candle flame but is now allowed to cook for herself and other women and children in the unit, and is learning Georgian. "She now gets two hours out for walking, she can use the communal kitchen, has a shower in her room and a proper toilet," she says, describing the improved conditions since a transfer earlier this month.

"They all cook for each other," Ms Kennedy says. "Bella has been making eggy bread and cheese toasties, and salt and pepper chicken."

Perhaps if she'd showed such skills in a job in her local cafe, she wouldn't have decided to smuggle drugs into a country that unlike the UK, doesn't ptovide holiday camps for the incarcerated felons it houses. 

Miss Culley claimed she had been tortured and forced to carry the drugs but was warned she was facing 20 years in prison. But, for a "substantial sum", she could be released, she was told. Back in Tbilisi City Court last Tuesday, the teenager heard her family had managed to raise £137,000. Not the amount needed for her to walk free but enough to reduce her sentence significantly, to two years. She is due in court again on Monday to hear her final sentence. Ms Kennedy says the family is doing everything they can to get her home "where she should be".

And she's now been freed. Blood money is acceptable in such a country, clearly.

Ms Kennedy, who has been traveling back and forth between the UK and Georgia, says her daughter is getting on well with staff and prisoners and she had been able to take in baby clothes for her. Her daughter's full story "will come in time", she says.

No doubt, once she's hired a ghostwriter. I assume the restriction on profiting from crime won't be applicable?

They Heard Hoofbeats And Thought ‘Horses’

That's not so strange, is it?

Police officers urged paramedics and firefighters to treat the second novichok incident in 2018 as a drug overdose despite warnings from the ambulance and fire services that it had similarities to the first poisoning four months earlier in Salisbury, a public inquiry has heard.

The fact the victim was known to the police as a junkie helped, no doubt.

The inquiry heard that Rowley had a number of convictions for possession of class A and class C drugs and, as a result, a Wiltshire police inspector concluded his symptoms were most likely drug-related – a judgment that led to Wiltshire police officers entering Rowley’s contaminated flat. The ambulance service spoke to an inspector with the Wiltshire police, O’Connor said. “Based on the intelligence, [he] formed the opinion that this incident was most likely owing to drugs,” O’Connor told the inquiry. “He noted the apparent nervousness of the other emergency services, but remained of the opinion that this was drug-related and was to be treated as such.”

Wiltshire police’s deputy chief constable, Paul Mills, told the inquiry: “The police officers were overly confident. I don’t believe it was wrong for them to have a hypothesis, based on the recent intelligence that they were aware of through the lens of the police service in Wiltshire, that this potentially could have been a drugs-related incident.”

No-one would. Even knowing the details of the other case, what's most likely, exotic Russian assassins targeting the local junkie, or overdose? Who wouldn't make the same calculation? 

Nor was he the only one to screw up, although this mistake actually helped...  

It was also revealed to the inquiry that Skripal’s life may have been saved because he was mistakenly given atropine, a drug used for organophosphate poisoning. Wayne Darch, the deputy director of operations at the South Western ambulance service NHS foundation trust, told the inquiry that paramedics at the scene had misdiagnosed Skripal and his daughter Yulia’s symptoms as an opiate overdose. O’Connor said: “Atropine was in fact administered to Sergei Skripal by one of the ambulance staff present by accident. He intended to give the administration of naloxone but picked up the wrong bottle and in fact gave him atropine. “We will hear from Mr Faulkner, the expert, that that would have clearly helped Mr Skripal and may have even saved his life.”

This must surely be the only time an error has had a good outcome in the history of the NHS.