Left-liberal activist law outfit The Good Law Project (GLP) has embarrassed itself in its attacks on right-of-centre GB News—by criticising the broadcaster for not repeating discredited crime statistics.
GLP campaigners said that the channel’s reporting of the rape gangs scandal was
at odds with government data that reports that only 7% of group-based child sexual exploitation suspects had their ethnicity recorded as ‘Asian.’
GB News reporter Charlie Peters, who has pursued the story doggedly for years, was singled out for particular criticism. The problem is that Peters—like the British government (eventually)—understood that the 7% figure was worthless. Even ignoring police cover-ups in defence of multiculturalism—including hiding alleged officer misconduct in Rotherham—the problem is that for many years, inadequate records were kept.
Leading one of several official investigations, Baroness Casey described data as “incomplete”, “unreliable”, and a “bloody disaster.” Or, as worded in Casey’s report of June 16, 2025:
the system has consistently failed to … collect accurate data so it can be examined effectively… [i]nstead flawed data is used repeatedly to dismiss claims about “Asian grooming gangs” as sensationalised, biased or untrue.
Nevertheless, the censorious but self-beclowning GLP has stuck with these figures in its war with GB News.
The real issue is not the quality of Peters’ award-winning reporting, but the GLP’s ambition to close down alternative points of view. It has already tried to defund GB News on the grounds of ‘homophobia’—despite numerous homosexuals in high-profile presenting roles—and starve the station of advertising revenue by lobbying advertisers.
If the GLP is going to submit a successful complaint to the UK media regulator Ofcom about rape gang coverage, it will need a more convincing foundation than the data already deemed unreliable by Westminster.
