Journalist and broadcaster Andy Jones shares his thoughts on how wokeness is sparking a new dawn of violent crime
In June, we’ve seen a horrifying new dawn in violent crime in Britain.
This month alone we’ve seen a violent knife attack in Belfast, a teacher convicted of murdering and raping a child he adopted, and a report claiming 250,000 girls have been raped by Islamic grooming gangs.
This week of horror comes just a month after an inquiry in Nottingham detailed multiple failures to arrest habitual violent offender Valdo Calocane – a man who had assaulted police officers and broken into a female stranger's home – before he murdered three strangers and drove a stolen van at a bus queue of people.
And then there’s the harrowing case of Henry Novak – a 18 year old who was handcuffed as he bled to death because of a false claim of racism made by his attacker.
All of these vivid and lurid crimes are very different, but all have the same key factor.
A British state that values the ideology of woke – the false notion of performative kindness – rather than stopping immediate danger or preventing the risk of physical harm.
A British public sector that, while costing us £196billion a year, cares more about appearances than protecting its own people.
The Rape Gang Inquiry Report, released this week by Restore leader Rupert Lowe, MP for Great Yarmouth, claims as many as 250,000 child victims were raped by migrant gangs across the country since 1955, with around 87 per cent of convicted offenders having Islamic surnames.
Although these numbers are under question, open source, locally recorded data shows 1,400 children were raped in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, while Greater Manchester Police (GMP) confirmed it is currently conducting 59 live investigations into group-based child sexual exploitation, involving 714 victims and 1,099 suspects.
Why did this rape epidemic occur? Because the state – particularly police officers and social workers – refused to investigate rape claims against Pakistani groups for fear of being called racist, often even facilitating the rapes by returning victims back into the clutches of gangs.
As the Government’s own report by Baroness Casey, released last year, says: “The ethnicity of perpetrators is shied away from and is still not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators, so we are unable to provide any accurate assessment from the nationally collected data.”
Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire police forces all stated there was enough evidence to show “disproportionate numbers of men from Asian ethnic backgrounds amongst suspects for group-based child sexual exploitation”.
Similarly, this week we also heard how in the case of the murder of little Preston Davey. Adoption Now couldn’t wait to place him in the home of the evil pair that abused him.
Adoption Now did their first visit to the home of Jamie Varley and John McGowan-Fazakerley – an unmarried gay couple in a non-monogamous relationship – on Feb 13, 2023.
Yet, barely two weeks later – by April 1 – Preston had already spent a night unsupervised at their home.
Preston was murdered by Varley – after months of abuse – just three months later on July 27, 2023, even after his abusers had brought him to hospital multiple times with unexplained violent injuries, including a broken arm.
What check-ups did our state do to save baby Preston? Why were they so keen to put this baby into these monsters’ care? Unsurprisingly, Debbie Davey, Preston’s maternal grandmother, has questioned whether fears of being accused of homophobia clouded social workers’ judgment.
Earlier this year, Karin Al-Danasurt, an Afghan migrant, was one of a group found guilty of gang-raping a woman on Brighton beach, filming and laughing during the sickening attack. During his trial, the Court was told that Al-Danasurt was wanted for murder in Egypt, something his defence team disputed.
Police were said to have discovered this because the fiend, upon his arrest for the rape, had kept documents relating to his earlier outstanding warrant in his hotel room. A hotel room, of course, that taxpayers are paying for.
This all occurs because our authorities – chained by the European Court Of Human Rights – must give sanctuary to anyone who arrives here seeking asylum. Our state has the opportunity to stop this but doesn’t.
Our education authorities also have this same dysfunction. In 2026, we heard that Southport monster Axel Rudakubana – who killed three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class – was not expelled from school or handed over to police despite repeatedly bringing a knife into a classroom and saying he wanted to stab people.
His concerned teacher, Joanne Hodson, described him as the most “sinister” child she had ever encountered. Yet she was told by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service her concerns were problematic, stating that she shouldn’t racially profile him as a black boy with a knife. More consideration was given to this knife maniac’s feelings than his future victims.
This has chilling echoes in the death of Henry Nowak, where a single lie about racism was enough to see police handcuff a dying man rather than his attacker or seek urgent medical care.
All because our Government demands officers see crime through the prism of race and that “equity” does not mean treating everyone ‘the same’ or being ‘colour blind’ (racial equality)”.
These issues are not occurring purely because of a lack of staff or under-funding. In all of these cases, the state has failed to act because our public sector is designed this way, through training and process to see the world through a certain lens. We have a public sector at every level – education, police, social work, and mental health – that is obsessed with identity politics – the needs of minorities and protected groups – and not with keeping its citizens safe.