The Southport Betrayal: a nation that failed its children through incompetence, bad parenting and a fear of being called racist

About this episode

Julia Hartley-Brewer and Tom Slater discuss the findings of the Southport Inquiry, highlighting failures in child protection and accountability.

Three little girls — Bebe King, aged six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, aged seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, aged nine — are dead. Eight more children carry life-changing injuries. And a devastating Phase One inquiry report has confirmed what many of us already feared: this was a preventable catastrophe, ignored because of incompetent parenting, a failure to take responsibility, and squeamishness about AR’s race and autism.  Julia Hartley-Brewer and Tom Slater of Spiked tear apart the Southport Inquiry's findings — a report so damning it indicts virtually every agency meant to protect us. Police who found Axel Rudakubana on a bus with a knife and simply took him home. Teachers silenced for daring to call him sinister, accused of racial stereotyping. Mental health workers too frightened to enter his home without police escort. And parents who knew about the ricin, the Al-Qaeda manual, and the machete — but said nothing. This is the story of a country where woke cowardice has become more dangerous than the killers it refuses to confront. Where political correctness has cost lives — in Southport, in Nottingham, in Manchester. Where no single person is ever held responsible, because…

People in this episode

Host: Julia Hartley-Brewer

Guest: Lord Walney

Topics covered

• Southport Inquiry
• child safety
• political correctness
• accountability
• parenting

Keywords

• incompetence
• bad parenting
• race
• autism
• political violence

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Southport, Nottingham, Manchester, Britain

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