What happened to all the progressive feminists? At a time when the industrial-scale exploitation of girls across the UK has been back at the top of the news agenda, we have heard remarkably little from what you might call the professional feminist set.
Louise Casey’s audit on grooming gangs, published last week, was sufficiently explosive to force UK prime minister Keir Starmer to u-turn on his opposition to holding a national inquiry into the scandal. Of course, in many ways, the report merely underlined what victims, parents and a few brave journalists have been trying to communicate for decades: that vast swathes of young girls across the UK have been sexually exploited by grooming gangs, made up disproportionately by Pakistani Muslim men.
