His fearless coverage of the rape-gang scandal was journalism as its very finest.
Everyone knows George Orwell’s wise words on the liberty to utter. ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’, he said. It’s a line inscribed by the entrance to BBC HQ in London, though its spirit has yet to enter the building itself. In recent years, the reporter, Andrew Norfolk, who died this week at just 60 years of age, was Orwell’s cry made flesh. In fact, with his fearless and tireless coverage of the rape-gang scandal, Norfolk gave liberty new meaning – he showed that if it means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what officialdom is absolutely adamant they should never hear.
So rare to speak of heroic journalists when discussing Muslim Rape Gangs.
