Seriously, if you haven't followed Sue's advice and already read Dan Hodges's article today at OMG The Mail on Sunday, you really ought to.
It may turn out to be one of the most important articles written for many a year.
And it raises a very serious question: Why is the BBC downplaying this story (the story of Jeremy Corbyn's surprising close involvement with a deeply unpleasant Facebook group) almost to the point of ignoring it? And why doesn't it matter to them?
And it raises a very serious question: Why is the BBC downplaying this story (the story of Jeremy Corbyn's surprising close involvement with a deeply unpleasant Facebook group) almost to the point of ignoring it? And why doesn't it matter to them?
And Rob Burley, if you're reading, please put aside your recent feud with Dan and take a few minutes to read it too, and maybe also invite him onto The Andrew Marr Show next Sunday to review the papers? And maybe also get Andrew to question Labour shadow cabinet members about Jeremy Corbyn's far-from-merely-passing involvement with this antisemitism/Holocaust-denial-heavy Facebook site and about Labour's truly extraordinary swerves and counter-swerves over this issue?
And as the Sunday Mirror's seriously-important-sounding investigation into 'Asian' grooming gangs in Telford (up to 1,000 children as young as 11 being drugged, beaten and raped over 40 years) captures more and more attention and becomes Mail Online's main story and a focus of ITV's reporting will the BBC refuse to learn the lessons of Rotherham and Rochdale (and the rest) and simply revert to their past practice of burying such stories? Or are they still checking it out?
The BBC stands at the crossroads here. Will they do the right thing?
I really hope they do. (There's no sign of it so far yet though).
The BBC stands at the crossroads here. Will they do the right thing?
I really hope they do. (There's no sign of it so far yet though).
