On the latest Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson speak to broadcaster and journalist Alex Phillips about her documentary for the think-tank, The New Culture Forum , ’Heresies, Britain’s Silent Rape Explosion’.
In her documentary, Phillips uses figures provided through Freedom of Information requests to better understand who the perpetrators of sexual assaults are. As she explains, the data was not always easy to acquire:
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“Across European big cities, and capital cities that have bigger populations of immigrant communities, you see the statistics leap up, with two thirds of all incidents of women being attacked are being carried out by people who have come into the country.”
Fearing the threat to women and girls will only increase, Alex does not think politicians are doing enough.
”They’re too lily-livered to take any affirmative action. And so the only thing they can do is attack anybody trying to whistleblow on the issue, to try and essentially bury it and not make matters worse by provoking further outrage.”
Planet Normal, a weekly Telegraph podcast featuring news and views from beyond the bubble. Listen on the audio player above or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your preferred podcast app.
* Original Article:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025/02/20/planet-normal-not-racist-asking-about-rapists/