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These were organised, clan-linked operations that treated white girls as “easy meat”…as fair game precisely because they lacked the honour protections afforded girls inside the perpetrators’ own communities.

But the deeper crime…the one that stains the soul of the state…was not committed by the men who used taxis and takeaways as cover for their predation.

It was committed by the police officers who lost evidence bags and classified raped children as prostitutes…by the councillors and social workers who tippexed the word “Pakistani” out of case files…by the prosecutors who raised evidential thresholds when the suspects belonged to protected demographics…and by the national political class that treated the screams of working-class girls as less important than the maintenance of “community cohesion” and the avoidance of racism accusations.

Britain is in a bad place, but it will have to go through a worse one to get out of it.

And that’s only if Britons have the stomach for it.