Coco Kahn
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1,632 appearances
19 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 12 Jun
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Now, like any good conspiracy theory, there is a kernel of truth in this. In 2009, the CPS dismissed some cases in Rotherham when CPS lawyers, in all their wisdom, decided that the victims would not be reliable or credible to a court.
Also, we should say this is not a news story. These abuse cases, they go back to 1997. There have been several inquiries across the country and there was a national inquiry led by Alexis Jay. The recommendations she made in 2022 were not implemented, however, by the Conservative government.
I mean, that is the voice we need to hear more of. Actual experts on violence against women and girls, like committed champions of victims. Instead, all we get is men with their puffed out chests. They're just arguing like, no, I'm the protector of women and girls. No, I'm the protector of women and girls.
Like women and girls are being let down across the board in this country and all across the world. It's just, it's really, really upset me. And she's absolutely right. We should be hearing the victims' voices much more in this.
I mean, how chilling is that? How horrendous is that? I mean, surviving what they went through, that was already enough. That was already monumental. And now to actually hear that a victim is saying, oh, did we not do enough? It's ingrained, it's endemic, the misogyny. And I would just say, because I've been thinking a lot about this,
The problem with misogynistic culture is that the people that participate in it don't ever think they're a misogynist. Even in like other parts of the world where it's tremendously unsafe to be a woman, where you're deprived of your rights in the public life, in education, in all sorts of places. The patriarchs that run that would never say, I hate women. They would say, we love women.
We protect women. We're just allowing women to fulfill their whatever idea they have of womanhood is. Fundamentally, the thing that unites those cultures and some of the misogynists involved in this conversation here in Britain is this deep belief that they know better than women. They will speak on behalf of women. It just makes me so furious, Nish, honestly.
Some other casual UK-centric Musk misinformation shared on his ex-page in just the last couple of days – please stop, please leave us alone – includes a false claim that Bill Gates donated millions to the BBC. The Gates Foundation has donated to BBC Media Action – but that is a BBC charity. It provides training across the world. It's not connected with the BBC's editorial output.
There was also a falsehood that George Soros is paying off The Guardian to post negative articles about him. I am no longer staff at The Guardian, but I'm still friends with many people that work there. And I can assure you, No one needs to pay them to say negative things about you. You do it yourself, Elon Musk.
And there's also a suggestion that the UK's civilisation could end due to a fall in our birth rate because there's nothing like a self-appointed champion of women and girls talking about how women should have babies they don't really want. He's also demanded that far-right activist Tommy Robinson be released from jail, calling him a political prisoner. He is, in fact, in jail for contempt of court.
Mm hmm. And of course, this shit, it just dominates the agenda. So when Keir Starmer really wanted to be talking about his big plans for the NHS on Monday, he had to put out the musk fire.
It really is. It's such a challenge. You know, I'm really torn about it as well. You know, I always think sunlight is the greatest disinfectant. You know, these toxic ideas. Let's engage with them. Let's defeat them, if you will, by showing that they're false, that they're made up. But at the same time, we do give them credence. And there is just a thick conversation about like...
if we spend our time fighting them, then we don't get to make the case for the progressive world that we want. We don't have the breath to do it.
And so those ideas, those really strong ideas about redistribution of wealth and actually tackling violence against women and girls and not just using women's rights as a political football, those things never actually get heard because we're just in this sort of loop, this whack-a-mole loop with the far right.
So I don't know what the answer is, but my concern is that these ideas are being disseminated far and wide. And to not have some kind of counter, that does scare me just instinctively.
Yes.
Absolutely. There's not enough conversation about the money that's at stake. And that is the basis of journalism and the basis of every good true detective show. You know, when you want to know what's going on, follow the money. And the money at stake is huge. The online safety bill that we've been talking about that the Labour government are hoping to push through.
We talked about the fining mechanism. The fining mechanism can demand up to 10% of global turnover. Not just the money that he makes in the UK. Global. That is huge sums. And I'm not surprised, therefore, he's fighting tooth and claw and using every dirty trick in the book to just essentially get into bed with people who he knows will never seek to regulate him.
So one thing we haven't spoken about is the thing that is wrapped up in all of this and ultimately the toxic undercurrent that dividers like Musk thrive on. And that's racism. So traditionally, Musk's favorite party has been reform.
But in a surprise turn on Sunday, Musk said that Nigel Farage is unfit to lead the party following Farage's failure to endorse Musk's suggestions of releasing Tommy Robinson.
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