Defiant BBC
NO apology, no contrition from the shameless BBC for promoting the vile rhyming rants of Jimmy Mizen’s merciless killer.
Instead it spat out a defiant statement that BBC Radio 1Xtra only ever played two tracks, had no idea who Jake Fahri was and “in no way condone his actions”.
Jimmy Mizen, left, and his merciless killer Jake Fahri, right[/caption]
A relief, that, since he is the cold-blooded murderer of an innocent teen.
Why did they not bother to do even a few seconds’ due diligence about the “drill” rapper hiding behind the balaclava?
It doesn’t seem to have troubled them to air the vicious outpourings of an anonymous, swaggering thug, glorying in the use of knives and machetes.
The BBC did belatedly take Fahri off its website yesterday.
Any broadcaster would have, albeit faster.
But the BBC, as Keir Starmer says, must remember its “unique responsibility”.
It exists only thanks to a £3.6billion annual bung extracted by law from us all.
It has to take criticism seriously.
The BBC must apologise to the Mizens.
And the Justice Ministry must investigate whether Fahri breached his probation with sick lyrics glorifying murder and should be put back behind bars where he belongs.
Rape probe dud
FIRST we were told demanding a national inquiry into grooming gangs was “jumping on a far-right bandwagon”.
Then the Government argued that a limited previous probe was ample.
Now Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says there WILL be a three-month “audit” to gauge the scale of the crisis — plus new local inquiries and some cold cases reopened.
But the inquiries initially cover just five areas.
What about the scores of others where girls were raped by Pakistani-origin gangs?
And what use is all this without witnesses being forced to testify?
It looks like a smokescreen thrown up in panic by a Government terrified of what a full public inquiry might expose:
The appalling failure of left-wing politicians and officials, their warped take on multiculturalism and their hyperliberal tolerance of the intolerable.
Candid Kemi
KEMI Badenoch’s blunt language on immigration and much else raises eyebrows only because it is more honest and direct than the saccharine liberal-left drivel both major parties fed us for so long.
When the Tory leader says migrants unwilling to embrace British life and culture should leave, she’s right.
Failing to enforce that has made us a magnet for Islamist extremism.
We welcome too Kemi’s apology for her party signing us up to Net Zero by 2050 without a clue how to pay for it.
Her mission is to rebuild trust in the Tories.
Her refreshing frankness is a promising start.
