BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL TOOK GIRLS INTO CARE. IT PLACED CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 13 IN HOMES IT KNEW THEY WERE BEING TAKEN FROM TO BE RAPED AND TRAFFICKED. When the girls reported rape, the council recommended teaching them which condoms to use and how to deal with pimps and their clients. The police cautioned the children for soliciting. Some were charged. The men were not. When Birmingham finally commissioned its own research, its researcher, Dr Jill Jesson, reached a devastating conclusion. The care system itself was contributing to the girls' exploitation, because it was failing to meet their needs. To all intents and purposes, Birmingham City Council was rounding up little White girls and pimping them out to gangs of Asian men. I do not say this lightly. The council took responsibility for these girls. The men exploited them. The council's report proposed teaching them how to deal with pimps and which condoms to use. The police then criminalised the children before the council covered up what was taking place. No one knows how many children were involved. In 1995 twelve Birmingham councillors voted against finding out. In 2025 JESS PHILLIPS, the Birmingham MP who was the safeguarding minister, refused a national inquiry that would have found out. Phillips knew that a national inquiry was the only thing that could reach the council in her own city. She knew all about the gang rape of little White girls by Pakistani men. In September 2025 she told parliament that girls had been telling her for years that police were involved in the abuse. So why was it that JESS PHILLIPS tried to prevent a national inquiry? Could it have anything to do with the demographic of the men she relied on to stay in power? Is Jess Phillips yet one more Labour politician that sold little White girls for votes? ________ AS FOR BIRMINGHAM TODAY 98 live child sexual exploitation investigations. Six suspected grooming gangs on the streets that the police know of. Two private hire drivers stripped of their licences following police intelligence about potential sexual offences against children. And the ethnicity of the men involved is still hidden. Under pressure, the council has now republished what it calls the Jesson Report. It is the version its own Director put in front of councillors in 1995 to close the matter down, with the ethnicity of the men taken out and his paper on the front saying the concerns had been "deliberately manufactured". The original has not been published. Read my analysis of what the council has released and what it has kept back, and look out for my live transmission where I go through the Jesson Report line by line. Raja Miah MBE redwallandtherabble.co.uk/fo… ________ Unfortunately, we are reaching the end of the road where I can continue working this way. The paid subscriptions have stalled. Worse, tens of thousands of people are now reading these articles without even joining the free mailing list. The audience is growing, but the number of people actually standing behind the work is not growing with it. This is becoming impossible to sustain. You know what we are up against. The mainstream media will not touch my work. Institutions I investigate do not volunteer their records. Politicians do not suddenly decide to hold themselves to account. And yet, despite all of that, we forced the national inquiry. We did that because enough ordinary people refused to go away. But getting the inquiry was never the end of this campaign. In many ways it was only the beginning. Now we have to watch where it goes, what it investigates, which places it avoids, which witnesses it calls, which records it obtains and whether the same institutions that failed these children are allowed to control the story again. Nobody else is going to do that work for us. And I cannot do it indefinitely working on my own. That is why I keep talking about 50,000 committed subscribers. It is not a vanity number. I did not pluck it out of the air. With fifty thousand people with me it means that when we uncover something important, it does not depend on a newspaper editor, a television producer or an algorithm deciding whether you are allowed to see it. It gives us reach they cannot easily shut down. But there is another reason. I need to build a proper backroom operation around this work. At the moment I am investigating, researching, writing, publishing, producing the videos, running the newsletter, dealing with the technology and then starting again. It is unsustainable. I need people behind me who can take care of the technical and production work so that I can spend my time doing the thing I do best. That is why we have been pushing so hard for new paid subscribers. 🔴 SIGN UP HERE 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk If you read my work and want it to continue, I need your help. If you are yet to do so, and can afford the £3 a month or £30 for the year, please become a paid subscriber. We forced the inquiry. Now we need the numbers to make sure they cannot control what happens next. Raja Miah MBE

ONE GIRL WAS THROWN FROM A MOVING CAR. ANOTHER WAS BURNED. SIX RETURNED WITH SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES. FOUR BECAME PREGNANT. Some were just 13 years old. These were children in the care of Birmingham City Council. Girls who should have been protected by the very authorities responsible for their safety. In 1991, Dr Jill Jesson exposed what was happening to them. She identified links to Asian private-hire drivers and subsequently revealed that she had been ordered to remove the ethnicity of the men from her findings. Copies of her report were ordered destroyed. Birmingham councillors later voted against an inquiry. Years later, the council investigated itself and declared there had been no cover-up. NOW LOOK AT THE POLITICIANS REPRESENTING BIRMINGHAM. Jess Phillips, MP for Birmingham Yardley, became the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls. When demands for a government-led grooming gangs inquiry were made, she rejected Oldham's request and supported powerless locally led investigations instead. Are we to believe she did not know what was happening in her own backyard? And then there is Shabana Mahmood. Mahmood has represented Birmingham Ladywood since 2010. Her own website proudly documents years of campaigning for Palestine. But where is the equivalent record of her campaigning for the girls sexually exploited in her own city? Where was her campaign to uncover what happened to the Jill Jesson Report? Mahmood is now the Home Secretary, responsible for the national statutory grooming gangs inquiry. A FOR BIRMINGHAM TODAY 98 live child sexual exploitation investigations. Six suspected grooming gangs roaming the streets. Two private-hire drivers stripped of their licences following police intelligence about potential sexual offences against children. And the ethnicity of the men involved is still hidden. My latest article follows the evidence through successive Birmingham administrations. I identify the politicians, chief executives and senior officials who held power when the decisions were made, and set out who Baroness Longfield must now call to account. Read it here and get ready for my live transmission where I line by line analyse the Jesson Report. Raja Miah MBE redwallandtherabble.co.uk/fo… _________ Unfortunately, we are reaching the end of the road where I can continue working this way. The paid subscriptions have stalled. Worse, tens of thousands of people are now reading these articles without even joining the free mailing list. The audience is growing, but the number of people actually standing behind the work is not growing with it. This is becoming impossible to sustain. You know what we are up against. The mainstream media will not touch my work. Institutions I investigate do not volunteer their records. Politicians do not suddenly decide to hold themselves to account. And yet, despite all of that, we forced the national inquiry. We did that because enough ordinary people refused to go away. But getting the inquiry was never the end of this campaign. In many ways it was only the beginning. Now we have to watch where it goes, what it investigates, which places it avoids, which witnesses it calls, which records it obtains and whether the same institutions that failed these children are allowed to control the story again. Nobody else is going to do that work for us. And I cannot do it indefinitely working on my own. That is why I keep talking about 50,000 committed subscribers. It is not a vanity number. I did not pluck it out of the air. With fifty thousand people with me means when we uncover something important, it does not depend on a newspaper editor, a television producer or an algorithm deciding whether you are allowed to see it. It gives us reach they cannot easily shut down. But there is another reason. I need to build a proper backroom operation around this work. At the moment I am investigating, researching, writing, publishing, producing the videos, running the newsletter, dealing with the technology and then starting again. It is unsustainable. I need people behind me who can take care of the technical and production work so that I can spend my time doing the thing I do best. That is why we have been pushing so hard for new paid subscribers. 🔴 SIGN UP HERE 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk If you read my work and want it to continue, I need your help. Sign up for free. There are no paywalls to access any of my work. If you can afford the £3 a month or £30 for the year, please become a paid subscriber. We forced the inquiry. Now we need the numbers to make sure they cannot control what happens next. Raja Miah MBE