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Sarah Champion on LBC now.

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endofthelinefinally · 15/05/2025 15:41

Talking to Shelagh Fogarty after the news that Andrew North ( hope I got his name right) has died.

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5MinuteArgument · 18/05/2025 10:45

Yeah, cover-ups don't work. Instead of making people just shut up and go away, they make people lose trust in the system. As Labour is finding to its cost now.

nauticant · 17/05/2025 16:25

LizzieSiddal · 15/05/2025 21:54

So very sad. I heard him very recently on R4 taking about how hard it was to do this “job”, which went on for years. What a hero he was.

I heard that and was struck by how haunted he sounded many years on.

Well, even with that he made a great contribution to exposing a terrible scandal. What a shame large parts of the political Establishment have been tireless in pulling the covers back over it.

Igneococcus · 17/05/2025 06:54

Janice Turner in the Times today:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/775414ae-7968-497e-9ad9-60159ba93e98?shareToken=a6acc679b540061c898d0e1e0b431938

Andrew Norfolk truly was righteous among men

Grooming gangs scandal was the most toxic story in Britain but my late colleague walked right into the heart of it and stayed there

https://www.thetimes.com/article/775414ae-7968-497e-9ad9-60159ba93e98?shareToken=a6acc679b540061c898d0e1e0b431938

MrsOvertonsWindow · 16/05/2025 19:42

Thank you for this. He was evidently much respected at the Times and he courageously went where so many other journalists failed to go.

5MinuteArgument · 16/05/2025 17:15

Thanks for posting the Julie Bindel article.

Sarah Champion has also done great work in speaking out on the grooming gangs, even going against her own party.

Why is there a wall of silence from nearly everyone in positions of power or responsibility?

lcakethereforeIam · 16/05/2025 10:52

Julie Bindel posted a lovely tribute on Unherd

https://unherd.com/newsroom/andrew-norfolk-a-rare-hero-in-the-grooming-gangs-story/

I hope he rests easy, truly a rare hero. Died far too young.

Andrew Norfolk: a rare hero in the grooming gangs story

I met Andrew Norfolk, who has died at the age of 60, shortly after his first major investigation on grooming gangs was published in the Times in January 2011. We were both guests on a television debate discussing whether it was racist to point out that...

https://unherd.com/newsroom/andrew-norfolk-a-rare-hero-in-the-grooming-gangs-story/

LizzieSiddal · 15/05/2025 21:54

So very sad. I heard him very recently on R4 taking about how hard it was to do this “job”, which went on for years. What a hero he was.

BunfightBetty · 15/05/2025 21:53

RIP Andrew Norfolk. I was so sad to read of his passing. He was a brilliant investigative journalist.

5MinuteArgument · 15/05/2025 20:18

Brave journalist who shone a light on a nationwide issue which most people in power won't touch.

Childrenofthestones · 15/05/2025 15:50

RIP. First reporter to take the rape gangs bull by the horns, working for The Times 2011-12.

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endofthelinefinally · 15/05/2025 15:41

Sorry Andrew Norfolk.

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