Morning Jolt: The United Kingdom’s Long-Delayed Reckoning on ‘Grooming Gangs’

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January 07 2025

The United Kingdom's Long-Delayed Reckoning on 'Grooming Gangs'

On the menu today: I must warn you, today's newsletter makes for disturbing reading, but there's no way to accurately describe the actions of the United Kingdom's notorious "grooming gangs" without being disturbing. The perpetrators would likely prefer for you to look away, to find the whole thing so horrifying and difficult to read that you click away.

Justice in the U.K., at Last

Justice delayed is indeed justice denied, but it's preferable for justice to arrive late, even by a decade or so, than for justice to never show up at all.

Ask the victims of Harvey Weinstein, or families of the victims of the Golden State Killer, or those who were oppressed by Bashar al-Assad's regime. We all would have preferred for longtime al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to be suddenly dissembled closer to the events of 9/11, but his appointment with two Hellfire missiles on August 1, 2022, was a useful reminder to the world's evildoers that the United States of America does not forget, and does not ...

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