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Great British PAC Investigates: Rotherham's Rotten Badge, and the Testimony Britain Was Never Meant to Hear

A fourth former South Yorkshire Police officer has been arrested on suspicion of non-recent child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, bringing to ten the number of victims who have come forward. In an interview with Great British PAC, survivor Sammy Woodhouse alleges that officers organised "holding cop nights", taking it in turns to rape trafficked children before handing them back to the gangs. The recently published Rape Gang Inquiry Report chaired by Rupert Lowe MP formally finds that serving officers were "active members of the rape gangs", and estimates at least 250,000 victims across 149 local authority districts. Great British PAC asks the question British institutions have refused to answer for thirty years: whom were the police actually protecting?

Vicky Richter · 13 August 2026
Opinion

Burnham Fails First Test of Leadership

There comes a point in every premiership when the folksy gestures stop mattering, and the country watches instead what a leader does with power under pressure. Andy Burnham has reached that point on Pc Andrew Harper's case, and by any honest measure, he has failed the test. Here is what he must now do, and how the public can force his hand.

Vicky Richter · 13 August 2026
Campaign

The Child Maintenance Service Is Broken. Sign the Petition. Force Westminster to Fix It.

Britain’s Child Maintenance Service covers 1.1 million children, yet unpaid maintenance has reached £791.2 million, nearly half of parents on both sides call their assessments very unfair, and the standard formula ignores one parent’s entire income. With the government actively reviewing the calculation, this opinion piece argues the public must seize the moment, sign the Great British PAC petition, and demand a system that counts both parents, respects shared care, and shows its working.

Vicky Richter · 12 August 2026
Legal

Great British PAC says no to Labour’s legal drift on single-sex spaces

Great British PAC says no to Labour’s quiet tolerance of six Left-wing London councils, Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest, that have declared they will keep services “inclusive” in defiance of new EHRC statutory guidance on single-sex spaces. With the Supreme Court already clear that “sex” means biological sex, who is Labour really protecting?

Vicky Richter · 12 August 2026
Campaign

Great British PAC to Build the Case, JK Rowling to Fund It: NHS Trusts on Notice Over Single-Sex Wards

An internal email has revealed an NHS trust will make "no immediate changes" to its policy of placing men who identify as women on female wards — despite new EHRC statutory guidance. JK Rowling responded within hours, pledging to fund legal challenges through her Women's Fund. Now the Great British PAC is offering to help affected patients and staff build cases ready for funding.

Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026
Opinion

Burnham Must Confront the Homelessness Emergency, and the Country Is Watching How

The chief executive of St Mungo's has told Andy Burnham he must urgently respond to Britain's rough sleeping emergency, as a sprawling encampment on Euston Road, in Sir Keir Starmer's own constituency, exposes the gap between the Prime Minister's £340 million pledge and the reality on the streets. With rough sleeping at a record high and one in four rough sleepers now a foreign national, how Burnham handles this crisis will reveal what he truly believes government is for.

Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026
Policy

New Manchester Mayor Refuses to Commit to Implementing Trans Guidance

Bev Craig, the new Mayor of Greater Manchester, twice refused on live radio to commit to implementing EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces, despite a Supreme Court ruling that "woman" in the Equality Act means biological sex. Nine of the region's ten councils have taken no action in fifteen months.

Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026
Immigration

Inside the Channel Crossing Industry: How Leaflets, NGOs and State-Funded Aid Are Reshaping Britain's Border Debate

On a stretch of scrubland outside Dunkirk, a glossy leaflet in sixteen languages is teaching migrants how to time a small-boat crossing of the English Channel and how to claim asylum in Britain. Retrieved this week by Reform UK's Lee Anderson, the pamphlet has thrown a spotlight on the humanitarian architecture, and the £662 million of British money, that surrounds Europe's most contested border.

Vicky Richter · 7 August 2026
Opinion

Starmer misled MPs over defence spending, UK statistics watchdog confirms

The UK's statistics watchdog has ruled that Sir Keir Starmer misled Parliament when he claimed the Government would spend "£270bn more on defence than we would otherwise have done". The figure was, in fact, the military's entire planned budget, not an increase. The real uplift is less than 10 per cent of what he told MPs, and the parliamentary record remains uncorrected.

Vicky Richter · 7 August 2026
Immigration

Tories Pledge to End Council Housing for Foreign Nationals as Badenoch Seeks to Halt Britain's Role as 'Cash Machine for the World'

More than 230,000 non-EU foreign households across Britain face eviction from council and housing association properties under sweeping Conservative proposals unveiled by Kemi Badenoch. The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Helen Whately, framed the plan as a decisive break with a welfare settlement that has turned the United Kingdom, in Mrs Badenoch's words, into a "cash machine for the world".

Vicky Richter · 7 August 2026

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