Why are politicians weaponising grooming gang...

The last two years has seen a meteoric rise for Labour's Miatta Fahnbulleh. From backbench MP, she has just joined Burnham's cabinet as the new Energy Secretary, taking over from Ed Miliband. Today, she joined us in the studio to talk about why she quit Starmer's government, the ...  عرض المزيد

Dolly Parton always avoided talking politics. She said you could find her opinions in her songs. She wrote about abortion, female rights, heartbreak, and wandering eyes. And yet, across America today Democrats have expressed their adoration whilst Republican president Trump lower ...  عرض المزيد

This episode talks about grooming, rape and trafficking, which some listeners might find upsetting. The government has resisted calls for another inquiry into grooming gangs. But with questions still unanswered, are survivors getting the justice they deserve? And why has the issu ...  عرض المزيد

A decades-old scandal rooted in the north of England has, in the last few days, been pushed to the top of the western world’s newscycle; that being the grooming gangs of Rotherham. In this particular case, the perpetrators were largely Pakistani muslim men while the victims were ...  عرض المزيد

Today, we look at the announcement that there will be full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs.Sir Keir Starmer said he had accepted the recommendations of an audit by Baroness Louise Casey into the data and evidence on the nature and scale of group-based child sexual ...  عرض المزيد

This week a major conference organised by the UK government called The Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative took place in London. Delegates, policy makers, politicians and survivors from around the world listened to discussions on justice, reparations, accountability ...  عرض المزيد