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1984 Today!Episode 134: Raja Miah MBE on Britain's Grooming GangsIn January 2025, Elon Musk started posting on X about a long-festering blot on the copybook of British justice, the decades-long organised mass rape of children across the cities of northern England by ‘grooming gangs’.In places like Rotherham, Telford, Rochdale, and Oldham, years of horrific abuse had gone barely acknowledged by authorities, with intermittent, insufficient, and inconsistent prosecution. The majority of the victims were girls between the ages of 11 and 16.After Musk’s social media posts, the scandal became international news, with the media often seeming more upset that Musk was criticising the British government than a...2025-03-161h 26