It’s only the beginning of January and already it feels like we have descended into bewildering pre-inauguration insanity.

All I can think as I can scan the news is: Why?

Why is Elon Musk, a man who you’d think had enough to occupy him on these shores, disrupting British politics over something hideous – gangs of men, many of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Afghan origin, who groomed under-age (mostly white) girls for sex – in the UK – over ten years ago? Yes, kudos to him for stirring up debate around the horrors of what happened and the lack of accountability for it, partly on account of lawmakers and enforcers worried about the ethnicity of the perpetrators; he has gotten me spending a few hours both online and on the phone to London, trying to educate myself about the history of Britain’s evil rape gangs.

But it seems as if there was a meaningful inquiry into the abuse and the cover-up. The problem was that the Conservative government, under whose watch this happened, didn’t implement the Inquiry’s list of recommendations, so it’s imperative that the current Labour government now does.

But after just a few hours of digging, I do not feel qualified to say whether there now needs to be a further national inquiry into what happened – or just a local one. And that’s the debate Musk has riled up, accusing the current Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a Labour MP Jess Phillips of blocking a national investigation for self-serving reasons. (Keir Starmer was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service at the time all the horrific abuse came to light).

But I do feel qualified to ask: why is the normally fizzy British press so non-critical of Musk’s brazen intervention in their national domestic policy?

Read on at Vicky Ward Investigates