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Peter Aspden
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Anglo-Greek. Former arts editor, writer, Financial Times.
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Favourite Lines from Miami Vice #1 S1Ep9
September 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Bullseye.
May 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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This is great
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The Dark Heart of Trump's Foreign Policy
The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
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March 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Three card trick
January 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson some useful context in the FT
"In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service's approval for the police to charge suspects. Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008-2013," Musk wrote. However, it was Starmer, while director of public prosecutions from 2008 to 2013, who began the prosecutions of the Rochdale grooming gang during his final year in post, shortly after the scandal in the Greater Manchester town became the first to come to light. In addition, Starmer launched an overhaul of the way the CPS investigates sexual abuse to ensure more perpetrators are brought to justice. The reforms also paved the way for historic cases to be reviewed. Musk also claimed safeguarding minister Jess Phillips was "refusing to investigate the rape Lockdown Enabled| • Musk also claimed safeguarding minister Jess Phillips was "refusing to investigate the rape gangs" in order to protect Starmer, following a report this week that the government had rejected Oldham Council's request for a Home Office-led inquiry into historic child sex abuse in the town. Phillips said in a letter to the local authority that she believed it was for the council itself to "decide to commission an inquiry into child sexual exploitation locally, rather than for the government to intervene" , according to GB News. Officials confirmed it was the government's view that local authorities are best placed to commission local inquiries, citing the precedent for probes in Rotherham and Telford, other towns blighted by grooming gang-related child sex abuse.
January 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM