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It’s been a full day since Rupert Lowe released the bombshell The Rape Gang Inquiry Report, a crowd-funded, survivor-led report. The report was commissioned because, its introduction says, “there was a demonstrable lack of political will to confront” the scandal. Both Labour and the Conservatives had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into an official inquiry, which will take many years and almost certainly avoid the most explosive aspect of the horror: “the ethnoreligious nature of the phenomenon”.
But it wasn’t just the police: the social services, schools, the NHS and the government failed catastrophically for decades to protect innocent young girls from almost solely Muslim predators. The legacy media couldn’t have been less interested. The same legacy media who banged on for years, across tens of thousands of articles, about a violent, career petty criminal who gobbled his stash while resisting arrest and overdosed, have barely mentioned the Muslim child-rape gangs at all.
They’re still doing their absolute utmost to keep the Cone of Silence firmly in place over the whole issue.
So, as I said, it’s been a full day since the release of the report and how are the legacy media covering it? They’re not.
Just log on to the website of any major masthead, and search for “grooming gangs”, “Rupert Lowe” or any related term. And listen to the gentle chorus of crickets.
The Australian doesn’t mention the report. Its last mention of anything related was January 2025. Several comments inquiring why they haven’t covered the report have been immediately taken down by moderators.
Similarly, the Age last touched on the topic in January 2025, when it trumpeted that UK PM Keir Starmer was going “to tackle grooming gangs”.
(In fact, Starmer and his entire front bench voted at first to oppose an inquiry. Even when Starmer relented under intense pressure, “plans for five separate reviews were quietly dropped ‘to avoid offending Pakistanis’”. Starmer, as Director of Public Prosecutions, had let off 13,000 suspected child rapists with only warning letters.)
In its exceedingly brief report in January 2025, the Age mostly dedicated itself to smearing Elon Musk for drawing attention to a “decades-old scandal”. Melbourne’s lefty rag of record also sneered that Musk’s “relationship with the truth seems so loose and who seems to care so little about the accuracy of what he says… appeared to know little about the history of the case”, which at least might be true if he’d only read the ‘coverage’ in the legacy media.
The ABC similarly hasn’t mentioned grooming gangs at all since January 2025. Even then, like the Age, they merely used it as a whipping-boy to accuse “megalomaniac” Elon Musk of “spreading lies and misinformation”.
And the New Zealand legacy media? Oh, you already know the answer to that one.
RNZ at least mentioned “grooming gangs” earlier this month: as part of a long piece attacking (you guessed it) Elon Musk, for “trying to whip up division” over Henry Nowak’s murder. Only in the very last two lines of its report does it mention the child-rape scandal, in the context of Musk “clash[ing] last year over a decades-old” scandal. RNZ duly repeated the “spreading lies and misinformation” line.
The few other RNZ reports from the past year or so only used the child-rape gangs scandal as an aside to reports on former Prince Andrew’s arrest.
Stuff, curiously, seems to have no dedicated search function on its site. But a broad web search of news articles over the past few years turns up nothing at all.
The NZ Herald last mentioned the scandal in June 2025, when it reported that “UK apologises to thousands of grooming victims as it toughens law”. You have my permission to scoff.
In the USA, the New York Post makes no mention of “grooming gangs” at all. The New York Times has been silent on the issue since last December. The Washington Post seems determined that young British girls will stay raped in darkness, having made no mention of the scandal since January, when it repeated the legacy media “spreading lies and misinformation” narrative.
Of all major US legacy media, only Fox News has shown any decency, with three headline reports on The Rape Gang Inquiry Report in the last day alone.
Similarly, in the UK, GB News and International Business Times have featured the report.
The Guardian? Silence.
Sky News? Nothing since last week, when it noted the report was due.
The BBC is hard to judge accurately, as it requires a login with a British licence fee to read much of its content, but a web search turns up no mention of the report.
News aggregator Ground News doesn’t show anything on the report at all. A story from today, on police re-opening just eight cases, notes that the story is 86 per cent covered by right-leaning sources. Not a single left-leaning source shows up on its radar on the issue. The closest are the centre sources, the Independent, IBT and Channel 4.
To really shame the Western legacy media, mainstream news media in many South Asian countries have covered the report. The Times Now of India had an extensive report. In Kerala, Mathrubhumi actually headlines their report with “White Christian girls were viewed as ‘lower value’, victims told UK grooming gangs inquiry”.
When even Asian media are reporting the Muslim child-rape gang scandal louder and more accurately than the Western legacy media, the Western media’s legacy of shame is complete and ineradicable.
The conspiracy of silence, just like the rapes themselves, never ends.
