"Why do you 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 talk about Pakistani grooming gangs? There are 𝙩𝙚𝙣 times as many white grooming gang suspects?" @maitlis.bsky.social asks ex-Reform MP @rupertlowe.bsky.social why he won't denounce all perpetrators of grooming gangs equally.
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👏 bravo Emily Maitlis. Why can't all journalists call out this clear bias and racism in the written and broadcast media.
may 15, 2025, 2:10 pm • 11 2 • view
because she's an empty-headed fool thecritic.co.uk/the-news-age...
may 17, 2025, 11:53 am • 0 0 • view
Get in, Emily! All credit to you for refusing to let go of the facts and for not letting this repulsive man spew his bile without being held to account.
may 18, 2025, 2:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Well said Emily. Despicable droning posh creep.
may 18, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
@maitlis.bsky.social the best
may 15, 2025, 7:31 pm • 4 1 • view
@theguardian.com @the-independent.com @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @meidastouch.com @thedailyshow.com @briantylercohen.bsky.social @podsaveamerica.crooked.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @jimmykimmel.com @barackobama.bsky.social #UK #Journalism This is a journalist !
may 16, 2025, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Well done Emily - most right minded people can see what he’s doing and as you made clear, it’s not grooming gangs and victims he’s concerned about. He is a racist. Period.
may 16, 2025, 8:03 am • 8 0 • view
Well said Emily.
may 15, 2025, 3:04 pm • 8 0 • view
If anyone still has a Twitter account, just go and read some of the comments there: it's like night and day.
may 15, 2025, 9:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Superb, @maitlis.bsky.social .
may 15, 2025, 9:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Did he reply that it's cos he's "a racist twat, more worried about inciting hatred against all Muslims and that he doesn't really care about the victims at all"?
may 15, 2025, 1:17 pm • 12 0 • view
Absolute racist scumbag
may 16, 2025, 8:15 am • 4 0 • view
Can we arrange for Maitlis to interview Trump please?
may 15, 2025, 1:37 pm • 3 0 • view
She’s only allowed one customer of Jeffrey Epstein. Which is why she is unlikely to interview Peter Mandelson either.
may 15, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
He would completely wither...... 😁
may 15, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Well persisted. I'm surprised these repellent snake-oil merchants have the courage to put themselves up for scrutiny before professional journalists. Why don't they stick to their propaganda platforms? Does Lowe honestly think that he's going to convince anyone subscribing to this podcast?
may 15, 2025, 2:48 pm • 10 2 • view
They just think they can talk over people, is my guess.
may 15, 2025, 4:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Having heard the whole interview, I don't think he knows he's doing it. As I remarked on a longer comment under the episode post, I didn't feel this was the sort of interview where the final word should go to a political analyst. The final word should have gone to a psychologist. He seems...
may 15, 2025, 5:30 pm • 4 0 • view
... impervious to anything he doesn't already believe, including facts. And I don't think he's faking it. So my answer to my own question now is that any venue is fine because he 'knows' he is absolutely and incontrovertibly right.
may 15, 2025, 5:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Bluster and shouting is all they have.
may 15, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I've come to the conclusion, having heard the whole interview, that Lowe has issues that go beyond bluster. He's that rare thing on the political far-right; a politician who actually believes everything he says. He doesn't even try to tread carefully.
may 15, 2025, 6:00 pm • 2 0 • view
He’s a racist wanker
may 15, 2025, 5:40 pm • 11 0 • view
Time to stop these racist bastards from any media attention. They thrive on it and the idiots refuse to listen to actual facts. Perhaps if they were ignored and people who have the facts were the ones used for broadcasting, they might disappear into the ether.
may 15, 2025, 4:03 pm • 4 1 • view
Just love Maitlis. Queen 👸
may 15, 2025, 5:56 pm • 4 0 • view
Jeepers. One massive dog whistle for this person.
may 15, 2025, 1:19 pm • 2 0 • view
I’ve just listened to this whilst getting some steps in. Good job I was out in public ‘cos I was raging inside my head. What a hateful, racist, misogynistic man he is. Glad that @maitlis.bsky.social revealed what a vile person he is. I don’t agree with him and other folks commenting don’t either!
may 15, 2025, 4:40 pm • 8 0 • view
Well done Emily! As a victim of rape by white British men, this lie they pedal is insulting and totally political. No help at all to those that suffer!
may 15, 2025, 8:42 pm • 34 1 • view
Not sure that's really Lowe's account. 🤔😄
may 15, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Lowe is a race baiter.
may 17, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
He won't take on the white grooming gangs as they're most likely either his backers, or his voters.
may 16, 2025, 12:41 pm • 4 0 • view
An actual victim here! Labour do it too, the Tories do it. Every politician that does this needs to be dragged over the coals and made to speak to voices of those recovering this abuse. Utterly sickening to see my scars used in this way. Please speak to survivors - the MPs won’t
may 15, 2025, 1:43 pm • 13 0 • view
💔
may 15, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Didn't deny he's racist. That tells you all you need to know. He's ignoring these people.
may 15, 2025, 9:20 pm • 6 1 • view
Well said Emily. Now please do the same with Farage and push for the truth that at the centre of his faux outrage is also disguised misogyny too
may 15, 2025, 1:43 pm • 9 2 • view
Rupert, bless him, thinks the best Britain was post-1945? Absolutely deluded little man. No, we didn't, really mate.
may 15, 2025, 7:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Who gives a fuck what Rupert cunt thinks about anything? He’s a wanker.
may 16, 2025, 11:16 am • 0 0 • view
Well done, @maitlis.bsky.social, for giving that charlatan the scrutiny he needs. This is how Starmer should be dealing with Reform - highlight their hypocrisy, not nick their policies.
may 15, 2025, 5:48 pm • 57 1 • view
Would she have been allowed to do that with her previous employer? Mainstream media seems to prefer the drama (and consequences) of a #Reform victory rather than fair, balanced reporting? @channel4news.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social #news @skynewsrss.bsky.social @bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social
may 15, 2025, 6:52 pm • 16 3 • view
The simple answer is no. And for the fact that she's now free to speak her mind, we should all be grateful.
may 15, 2025, 8:20 pm • 6 1 • view
No I don't think that the BBC woud have allowed her to give him a richly deserved kicking like that. That's why she (and Lewis and Jon) left.
may 15, 2025, 7:14 pm • 24 0 • view
Love you Emily but it does make you wonder if there’s any point in amplifying these racist pigs. We know them already, and Reform voters won’t watch this.
may 15, 2025, 6:18 pm • 3 0 • view
He's an honest to goodness ethnonationalist. A nasty human being.
may 16, 2025, 7:19 am • 1 0 • view
Excellent work from Emily Maitliss. Factual and firm. Holding him to account and not letting him get away with his obfuscation. 👍👏👏👏
may 15, 2025, 7:34 pm • 4 1 • view
Presented with facts, still wants to focus on skin colour and ethnicity. Fuck this racist prick and anyone who supports these gang of twats.
may 16, 2025, 7:56 am • 9 0 • view
What drives these people is racism pure and simple. They are not interested in facts or reality only in their hate and dog whistling. I do not believe fascists should be allowed public broadcast platforms. The damage their lies do is incalculable.
may 16, 2025, 2:19 pm • 4 0 • view
His argument here is based on the way people who have donated to his cause feel. Whipped up by whom? What sort of people would “feel” like this? So much store is set on peoples “beliefs,” in denial of facts. That’s what I find shocking.
may 17, 2025, 8:58 am • 3 0 • view
I completely agree. In a similar way, the electorate are apparently very worried about immigration - well, they didn't used to be. I wonder what has persuaded them that they should be worried?! 🤔
may 17, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
He passed on the opportunity Emily gave him to deny being racist.
may 15, 2025, 1:33 pm • 6 0 • view
Well done for calling him what he is, a racist, a filthy racist.
may 15, 2025, 4:05 pm • 4 1 • view
Listened to this on the way to work. What a vile, racist scumbag Rupert Lowe is.
may 16, 2025, 3:23 pm • 4 0 • view
"Why do you 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 talk about Pakistani grooming gangs?" Please sir! I know this!
may 15, 2025, 1:17 pm • 11 0 • view
Emily Maitlis is a superb interviewer.
may 15, 2025, 5:15 pm • 2 1 • view
Well done Emily.
may 15, 2025, 1:51 pm • 3 0 • view
“I’m a racist but stop giving me bloody facts that proves it to everyone else.”
may 15, 2025, 1:23 pm • 10 1 • view
The way he constantly tried to prevent Emily ask any questions; his constant refusal to answer what was actually asked; his condescension and rudeness: all persuade me that he certainly did bully those women.
may 16, 2025, 3:36 pm • 11 0 • view
90%. Jesus wept.
may 15, 2025, 3:25 pm • 4 0 • view
Sorry, when I said that I mean "Jesus wept" about the scale of denial about the ethnicity of perpetrators.
may 15, 2025, 3:26 pm • 6 0 • view
Indeed … shockingly skewed , in favour of all those white child sex offenders. They’ve cornered the market 🙄
may 15, 2025, 3:30 pm • 4 0 • view
I dont know how she stopped herself from crossing the studio and fore-arm smashing the ignorant pr1ck in the face.
may 15, 2025, 3:50 pm • 14 0 • view
I had a “discussion” with someone on Twitter who took a similar line. What emerged, explicitly, was that he thought rape by Asian men was a worse crime, deserving greater punishment, than rape by White men. He was convinced that wanting all rapists punished equally was not to care about victims.
may 15, 2025, 5:31 pm • 17 0 • view
That's exactly it 👍
may 15, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
The 'discussion ' I had ended with me being told those figures show that the woke police only investigate white people. It really does need MSM to properly scrutinise and inform but those days seem long gone
may 15, 2025, 7:44 pm • 1 0 • view
You’ll never convince the terminally racist. You are assumed to be excusing ‘Pakistani grooming gangs’ if you have the temerity to point out that white men also abuse … in large numbers 🙄
may 16, 2025, 6:53 am • 1 0 • view
The English Defence League - which went on and on about Muslim grooming gangs - was riddled with paedophiles. It’s very hard not to conclude that their big problem was the interracial aspect, not the paedophilia.
may 15, 2025, 5:33 pm • 16 0 • view
I'd say "impossible ".
may 15, 2025, 8:35 pm • 4 0 • view
👍🏽
may 15, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
That's a useful chart, what paper is it from
may 15, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
www.csacentre.org.uk
may 16, 2025, 6:50 am • 1 0 • view
Merci
may 16, 2025, 6:57 am • 1 0 • view
I watched it until he said illegal immigrants and changed to The Trawl podcast
may 16, 2025, 6:55 am • 0 0 • view
Christ, just got to this bit , he’s everything as a white, working class family man , I abhor. Completely racist
may 15, 2025, 6:22 pm • 12 0 • view
Some suggestion that he will find a home in the "reformed" Conservative Party If #SirEnochStarmer does not get him first @channel4news.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social #news @skynewsrss.bsky.social @bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social
may 15, 2025, 6:54 pm • 3 0 • view
Imo, because he’s doing racism
may 16, 2025, 6:28 am • 8 0 • view
Who does @rupertlowe.bsky.social believe the 200+ white rape grooming gang perpetrators are abusing if not vulnerable white girls? Why is it more of a problem for Rupert if the perpetrators aren't white? It's an odd idea of giving white entitlement to perpetrators isn't it?
may 16, 2025, 11:29 am • 3 0 • view
Rupert Lowe, denying accusations of bullying in this interview, whilst coming across as an arrogant, insufferable bully!
may 16, 2025, 8:26 am • 6 1 • view
That was quite wonderful to watch.
may 16, 2025, 6:25 am • 6 0 • view
Take a bow Emily Maitlis 👏👏👏 We need more presenters/journalists/reporters like you - fed up to the back teeth of the sycophantic presstitudes of the right-wing media.
may 16, 2025, 8:21 am • 1 0 • view
Now, there's a nightmare view I'd love to avoid...
may 16, 2025, 8:22 am • 0 0 • view
Sad it is happening, but great work addressing the obvious racism
may 15, 2025, 1:44 pm • 4 0 • view
Unfortunately this will do nothing to convince Reform type voters that this is what they're voting for. Either this clip won't reach them (as they'll say Maitlis is a raging lefty) or they'll say she doesn't want to talk about Muslims. You can't win.
may 15, 2025, 8:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Just imagine what that hideous man is like when not being recorded.
may 16, 2025, 8:01 am • 8 0 • view
📌
may 16, 2025, 9:56 am • 0 0 • view
Am I the only one listening to this interview thinking he just ran roughshod over Matlis?!? It was just that horrible racist talking over everything
may 15, 2025, 4:33 pm • 3 0 • view
Nah he tried and looked like a moron
may 15, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Regardless, he came off as a vile person
may 15, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh he is and not different to the rest of that shower of shits with the exception of the greens and in some isolated cases the lib dems
may 15, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Thoroughly disgusting position. This blatant racism needs to kick out of British society.
may 15, 2025, 4:19 pm • 5 0 • view
The fact he wanted to 'park that there' as soon as Emily mentioned the stats showed he knew he'd been caught out straight away. Agonising hearing him completely ignore the questions and just repeating his racist mantras.
may 15, 2025, 6:56 pm • 6 0 • view
20,000 people doesn't show depth of concern It shows there are 20,000 ignorant racists giving money to a grifting racist arse
may 16, 2025, 1:57 pm • 1 0 • view
open.spotify.com/episode/6RuA... The whole podcast.
may 17, 2025, 4:55 pm • 3 0 • view
& that ladies & gentlemen is how you deal with these Reform awful characters, point out that their hypocrisy on just about everything they talk about!
may 15, 2025, 6:23 pm • 50 2 • view
How Emily was able to sit in the same room as this abhorrent gargoyle shows what an incredible journalist she is. I'm glad this lot are getting the scrutiny they aren't getting by other outlets.
may 16, 2025, 9:15 am • 9 0 • view
There are many involved with Reform, like Farage, who deep down know and see the con. Then there are those like Lowe who are beyond deluded and now live in their alternate realities. It’s impossible to reach these people
may 16, 2025, 7:30 am • 8 0 • view
Thank you for interrupting him when he wanted to spout lies and then "park" the facts when you called him out. We need more journalists like this.
may 15, 2025, 1:29 pm • 24 1 • view
Finally… some proper scrutiny of their disgraceful racist horseshit … it really isn’t difficult.. their figures just don’t add up. Their ideology is to agitate a racist agenda to create civil unrest, whilst they rob the country blind.
may 15, 2025, 7:45 pm • 56 2 • view
Superb 👏🏻If only the rest of the media had the guts to call these people out instead of giving them a free ride in the name of “impartiality”
may 15, 2025, 8:15 pm • 8 1 • view
People are donating based on the distorted information provided by him & that party, they incite fear & hate & othering, information contrary to what they spout is available, but right wing main stream media do not inform, they platform these racists daily & feed the disinformation drive.
may 16, 2025, 6:49 am • 11 0 • view
This is Reform .. disgusting racists Shameful
may 15, 2025, 1:39 pm • 1 0 • view
We need more journalists to call out these grifters! The trouble is, they’ve had years to drip feed their bile to people who are ignorant, that I think it’s too little too late. Unfortunately those people have been indoctrinated too far to believe the truth
may 15, 2025, 2:07 pm • 9 2 • view
He's a despicable and bigoted liar.
may 15, 2025, 2:47 pm • 8 1 • view
If Kuenssberg and Mason had 1/10 of this journalistic skill we wouldn't be in half the mess we are.
may 15, 2025, 8:03 pm • 49 4 • view
Kuenssberg and Mason are presenters, pushing an agenda. They're not journalists. Very few journalists at BBC News these days...
may 15, 2025, 8:37 pm • 19 1 • view
They are not even presenters. They are tittle tattle gossip columnists.
may 16, 2025, 6:55 am • 7 0 • view
Starmer has the power to clear out the BBC. That he hasn't done so is puzzling. Or maybe not.
may 16, 2025, 8:21 am • 2 0 • view
They are not journalists, they are pimps.
may 16, 2025, 7:19 am • 2 0 • view
Not Pakistani: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
may 15, 2025, 7:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Thankfully someone throughly interrogating the ignorant bigots @maitlis.bsky.social
may 15, 2025, 8:41 pm • 4 1 • view
What an absolute shit that man is!
may 15, 2025, 2:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Rupert Lowe is a disgrace. A washed up racist. Disappointed you gave him a platform but happy you gave him a hard time
may 15, 2025, 10:12 pm • 7 0 • view
Listen to the full interview in the podcast!! It's painful, excruciating and reveals a despicable human being. Massive kudos to Emily for conducting it with utmost professionalism.
may 15, 2025, 10:11 pm • 22 0 • view
Rupert Lowe is utterly despicable, smug and so patronising. He positively oozes racism and is very proud of it.
may 16, 2025, 2:48 pm • 1 0 • view
It was a pleasure to watch Maitlis surgically fillet this odious little man and his racist views. He is vile, his politics are vile, yet the BBC still brings out Farage et al. for every political issue for "balance". The first question they should be asked at every interview is "are you a racist?"
may 16, 2025, 7:20 am • 43 1 • view
Nah, it should be "your pet project has cost every UK household thousands of pounds and the economy is still to recover...why the fuck do you think you deserve any kind of platform now?"
may 17, 2025, 4:39 am • 1 0 • view
BBC and UKs national media keep flogging this dead horse to win the next GE because as ‘a story’ it sells. The only thing it will gain them is for themselves to be sold or closed down if he ever becomes PM. Journos writing themselves out of work!
may 16, 2025, 8:08 am • 0 0 • view
Suspect that Lowe is too racist even for Farage
may 16, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not sure I can agree that there are gradations of racism. A racist is a racist.
may 16, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Interesting…!
may 16, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I said this the other day to someone I’d met a lot while walking our dogs. She seemed surprised that there were any non-Pakistani grooming gangs. And when I said this to someone who raised it on the doorstop, he was like “Oh but the Asians are more into X (families, implying incest?). Much worse.
may 15, 2025, 1:21 pm • 16 1 • view
‘ dogs’ ? 😊
may 16, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I find the notion that someone would be surprised that there are non-pakistani grooming gangs extremely troubling. Proof positive that the msm is doing a very good job of 'filtering' the facts.
may 15, 2025, 3:29 pm • 4 0 • view
Yes. This.
may 15, 2025, 3:30 pm • 2 0 • view
This is exactly how the BBC should be dealing with the right wing of British politics. Well done Emily and the newsagents for showing them how it’s done.
may 15, 2025, 2:56 pm • 12 2 • view
It’s always the simple device of reading back people’s own words to them which produces the most performative outrage. Trumpian stuff - sure, he’s got a slightly more cut-glass accent and rattles along, but it’s the same tidal wave of racist nonsensical shit. This is from Yarmouth pre-GE 2024.
may 15, 2025, 9:26 pm • 2 0 • view
I was disappointed at first that Emily wasn't pushing back against the brow beating and condescension. He came over as entitled and evasive, but when the grooming segment started she really confronted him and picked him apart. I'm not surprised such an odious person joined reform.
may 17, 2025, 8:02 pm • 4 0 • view
Outstanding
may 15, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Fash gonna fash...
may 15, 2025, 3:35 pm • 5 0 • view
When Sunak was PM and Braverman Home Secretary, they were going to make a big thing about Pakistani grooming gangs. Until that weekend a much larger white grooming gang were arrested. Then nothing else was heard.
may 16, 2025, 7:51 am • 4 0 • view
It was grotesque the way they threw themselves on that when, just like Reform, they clearly didn't really care about child sexual abuse.
may 17, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Couldn't bear to watch this one. He really is vile.
may 15, 2025, 9:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Because he's a racist cunt who was shit at running a football club.......almost as shit as the Glazers!
may 15, 2025, 5:49 pm • 3 0 • view
What a vile man he is!
may 15, 2025, 4:02 pm • 5 0 • view
He doesn't care a jot about the children being groomed and abused, he is using the subject as a way to attack non white groups and further his racist agenda. If he genuinely cared, then he would be looking into all grooming, white included, but he isnt, ergo...
may 16, 2025, 2:14 pm • 5 0 • view
Ohio has over 50 white supremacy groups alone. Just Ohio.
may 30, 2025, 11:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Im not convinced personally that its actual grooming gangs that lowe/farage/tice etc etc objects to here.
may 15, 2025, 1:25 pm • 2 0 • view
We need so much more of this!! Well done @maitlis.bsky.social . Brilliant. Call out the racists!! 👏👏👏
may 15, 2025, 7:48 pm • 6 1 • view
Deny, deflect and respond to the interviewer with a zero sum leading question. They all eat at the same table, whilst pretending they are "different".
may 15, 2025, 7:45 pm • 6 0 • view
“Lots of racists have donated so I’m must be right” I’d never get tired of punching that prick.
may 15, 2025, 3:29 pm • 8 1 • view
Quite happy to hold your coat....
may 15, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
All the buzz words present. Do Gooder. Check. Liberal Elite. Check. Woke Numpties. Check. Quite extraordinarily unpleasant and spiteful man who has nothing to offer bar race baiting. Hope he and Reform fight like cats in a sack and take each other down.
may 16, 2025, 6:04 pm • 3 0 • view
Goodness me how awful is this Lowe guy
may 15, 2025, 6:20 pm • 3 0 • view
Called a racist to his face and he doesn't even blink. That speaks volumes.
may 15, 2025, 2:46 pm • 22 1 • view
Good point. These political bigots are basically saying to a certain sector of the population: 'it's alright to be a racist bigot and we are here to represent you...'
may 15, 2025, 3:26 pm • 9 2 • view
She is totally brilliant. A true journalist and one we can respect.
may 15, 2025, 3:45 pm • 10 1 • view
Reform don't care about facts, truth or victims. Reform only care about parting people from their money. The gullible ones vote for them & become the thin end of the wedge so the media treat them as an established political force. Everyone should be looking at what they do & holding them to account.
may 15, 2025, 2:32 pm • 32 3 • view
Parting people from their money and also stirring up racial hatred, surely?
may 15, 2025, 3:22 pm • 8 1 • view
Good point, well made 👍
may 15, 2025, 4:02 pm • 4 0 • view
People like Lowe turn your stomach because when confronted with the facts about white grooming gangs/ sexual abusers and their victims his attitude is "I don't care". Vile twat. Pure exploitation of an issue to make political capital.
may 16, 2025, 8:04 am • 12 0 • view
Top class interviewing. More please
may 16, 2025, 12:03 pm • 7 0 • view
seems below lowe is not concerned with the nature of the crime as much as the colour of the perpetrators, jumpin on the band wagon 2 drum up supporters, desperate & abusing the Victims all over again.
may 15, 2025, 3:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe these guys like Lowe need to read a few copies of Take A Break dodgy weirdos and crooks come in all colours and ages.They aren’t exclusively immigrants - and many of the ‘non whites’ they focus on are actually born here to British parents so are legally British , whether they like it or not .
may 15, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Low is one of those privileged, cosseted, ultra entitled privately educated saps who believes that his opinion is fact. His position is the very definition of prejudice, focusing on the crimes of a minority, and ignoring the crimes of a much larger group because it's politically convenient for him.
may 16, 2025, 6:08 am • 47 0 • view
I doubt he *believes* his opinion is fact. But he comes from the background you outline & merely attempts to portray them as fact as has identified an opportunity to be exploited for self gain, regardless of the truth or wider public / country best interests. Self service over public service.
may 16, 2025, 12:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I listened to this earlier. The fact that he didn't push back at all when EM called him a racist says it all.
may 15, 2025, 8:45 pm • 20 1 • view
What a refreshing change to see real journalism. Great job.
may 15, 2025, 10:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Because one problem was created / imported by politicians and one wasn't?
may 16, 2025, 7:32 am • 0 0 • view
The Catholic Church was responsible for the worst child abuse scandal in modern history. Most of those clergy looked (and sounded) remarkably like Rupert Lowe? If he demanding we close Catholic Schools or does he only want White kids for White Nonces (who just happen to look like him)?
may 15, 2025, 1:19 pm • 9 1 • view
Let’s not forget the Church of England, Church of Scotland, the royal family, over 400 football clubs and almost all care homes for decades which was covered up
may 15, 2025, 3:02 pm • 7 1 • view
Definitely not. Ultimately clergy and monarchy are a cancer on society. Hence my profile quote.
may 15, 2025, 3:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Fair play to @maitlis.bsky.social to not let Lowe off. The hook for blatantly lying
may 16, 2025, 7:24 am • 6 0 • view
The account you've tagged for Lowe is perfect.
may 15, 2025, 2:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Brilliant - well done Emily!
may 16, 2025, 6:55 am • 21 0 • view
He is so obviously trying to move the subject because he understands the statistics but they don't suit his agenda.
may 31, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
this man is a shameless bigot and a horrific human being. can only hope he and Farage destroy each other in a fury of racist egos
may 15, 2025, 11:35 pm • 8 0 • view
Fair play, she is excellent.
may 15, 2025, 6:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Pity she (& the others) didn't do this whilst still employed by the BBC...
may 15, 2025, 6:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Why did they leave the BBC do you think?
may 15, 2025, 6:48 pm • 2 0 • view
I know why they left. Just a shame it took 3 years for her to make her mind up after they sanctioned her.
may 15, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
That's why they left.
may 15, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Shame she waited for 3 years after the disciplinary incident though.
may 15, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Same reason that Andrew Marr left, having to have folk on to argue that the moon is made out of cheese just to provide balance.
may 15, 2025, 6:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't know about any of this. I've only commented on The News Agent's video
may 15, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Christ, the BBC? Bloody hell that would never happen
may 15, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s such a pity that mainstream broadcasters don’t have this level of journalism. Hold these scumbags to account !
may 15, 2025, 1:31 pm • 13 1 • view
If only @maitlis.bsky.social could apply this same logic to gender criticals and other anti-trans extremists. These media figures seem to have a major blind spot when it comes to trans people. Maitlis can see right through racism, but transphobia is acceptable
may 19, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t know how @maitlis.bsky.social kept her temper in this interview. @rupertlowe.bsky.social was an obnoxious bully throughout and barely let her ask a question.
may 16, 2025, 8:38 am • 11 0 • view
Pointless tagging a BlueSky account that isn't him. He'll only be on X
may 16, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah I didn’t notice until I’d posted that it was a spoof account. Have to go on X to troll the bastard properly!
may 16, 2025, 4:04 pm • 2 0 • view
@rupertlowe.bsky.social and Reform are a blot on our national history. Lying, racist scum that we do not need or want.
may 16, 2025, 6:56 am • 9 0 • view
Good on you Emily! Clearly didn't deny being a racist. All grooming gangs are sick! Focus on all of them, not just the smaller numbered Pakistani ones, my god
may 15, 2025, 1:48 pm • 6 0 • view
He said it all when he said "r*ping white girls" the same racist misogynistic bullshit
may 16, 2025, 9:53 pm • 5 0 • view
Imagine if we didn't plonk girls/women into care & then forget about them. If they're offered attention, excitement, money or gifts - why wouldn't they reach out and grab it! We're only concerned about the girls when 'grooming gangs' are involved - but not the white ones.
may 15, 2025, 6:08 pm • 1 0 • view
What a vile, racist, see-you-next-Tuesday.
may 23, 2025, 8:26 am • 4 0 • view
Cos he's a racist.
may 16, 2025, 6:33 am • 11 0 • view
Well done Emily, holding these racist bigots to account.
may 15, 2025, 7:35 pm • 12 1 • view
Don’t look too closely at the church either.
may 16, 2025, 8:34 am • 2 0 • view
Superb Emily Maitlis. Hit these racist scumbags with facts, statistics and relentless push back. Every journalist…take note.
may 15, 2025, 7:50 pm • 14 1 • view
'per capita' www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...
may 17, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view
Telegraph paywall. Ceased reading this piss poor rag 20 years ago since they don’t publish their declining readership figures but took £1m in Russian propaganda fees annually. Here’s another discredited source… What do we know about grooming gangs' ethnicity? www.bbc.com/news/uk-6517...
may 17, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolute racist scum who didn’t deny it, also it appears another far right grifter begging for money.
may 15, 2025, 5:21 pm • 3 0 • view
I just watched that, he had absolutely no intention of listening to or accepting her point - based on police statistics reported in The Times - and dismissively rambled on with his dogmatic argument. Never once addressed the point she made. He’s an ignorant opportunistic dog-whistling disgrace…
may 15, 2025, 7:43 pm • 4 0 • view
"White UK Born Grooming Gang" headlines don't sell anywhere near enough newspapers or give racist politicians enough rage induced money raising opportunities
may 16, 2025, 10:16 am • 3 0 • view
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may 16, 2025, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Who grifts for money the fucker
may 15, 2025, 7:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Rancid individual. One of many knocking around these days…
may 15, 2025, 7:49 pm • 2 0 • view
You could write a full list of them Just shocking that we’re in this situation within politics atm
may 15, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view
And they all need money for one reason or another, everyone of them.
may 15, 2025, 9:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Needs to be pushed by journalists as he is arrogant you can just tell
may 15, 2025, 10:05 pm • 1 0 • view
With his 800m drive, a real man of the people 🤣
may 15, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Very telling that when he was talking about the harassment claims earlier in the interview, he talked about “girls” rather than “women”. An odious little man who has mistaken privilege for wisdom.
may 16, 2025, 6:44 am • 27 0 • view
You idiot . The people targetted by the Pakistani racists were the most vulnerable they could target : under age so therefore girls . Many were 11 to 13. So girls is the right term. They were raping and torturing girls
may 16, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Obviously no reading before commenting in a rage. You daft fuckwit. The only idiot is yourself.
may 17, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Can't you read what you're critiquing? Its obvious the post was referring to Lowe's comments about his accusers not the victims of grooming gangs. 🤦🏻
may 16, 2025, 5:01 pm • 5 0 • view
I was referring to earlier in the interview where he was talking about the harassment claims that were made against himself. I see that could be confusing if you hadn’t heard the earlier part of the interview. But thank you for your calm and considered response. Have a lovely weekend.
may 16, 2025, 2:46 pm • 5 0 • view
Outstanding, @maitlis.bsky.social @rupertlowe.bsky.social has never once mentioned the grooming gangs in Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham.... Why would that be, @rupertlowe.bsky.social ?
may 15, 2025, 6:50 pm • 4 1 • view
This clip was also posted on X and wow, what a difference in the calibre of posters! Well done Emily!
may 15, 2025, 5:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Just started listening and it's excruciating. Can Lowe actually stop talking? It's constant. Also calling women "girls" 🤢
may 15, 2025, 6:40 pm • 4 0 • view
Such a rarity to see actual journalism. A masterpiece at holding these frauds accountable.
may 15, 2025, 2:21 pm • 19 1 • view
Thank you @maitlis.bsky.social It’s vital, now more than ever, that journalists interrogate and challenge lies.
may 15, 2025, 1:35 pm • 19 2 • view
God this interview really reveals just how vile and awful these people are. Five minutes in and he just came across as a misogynistic bore, totally bulldozing over Emily. The arrogance was unbelievable. Prince Andrew was 10 times better mannered!!
may 15, 2025, 8:53 pm • 8 0 • view
It’s easier for white men to focus on men from other nationalities than it is for us to look at the white man next to us & accept we are the bigger problem. The likes of Farage, Lowe, Lennon, Reform get easy coverage by going after ethnic minorities.
may 15, 2025, 3:10 pm • 8 2 • view
I meant to add, a child molester, groomer, sexual predator, rapist, whatever colour or ethnicity is still all of those things, nothing changes that!
may 15, 2025, 4:48 pm • 2 1 • view
and we're supposed to believe the right when they claim they just want to be allowed to have an open debate about *insert talking point here*. this is how they converse.
may 15, 2025, 2:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Well done Emily. It’s hard to stand up to these devious, unscrupulous, racist men who always dodge the question, but you did it!
may 15, 2025, 2:59 pm • 6 2 • view
Brava Emily. A proper journalist who attempts to hold racist charlatans such as Lowe to account. As with all of his type, he never answers the question, but ducks and weaves. Staggering that a huge percentage of little englanders support his far-right extremist views now.
may 15, 2025, 1:22 pm • 38 1 • view
How she stays in her seat without causing blunt force trauma, I have no idea. He is a complete liar and makes me sick to my stomach.
may 15, 2025, 3:24 pm • 16 1 • view
‘Blunt force trauma’ sorry that made me snicker. Must admit, I’d’ve wanted to lump him myself.
may 15, 2025, 4:47 pm • 3 0 • view
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may 15, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
We know why
may 15, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Well done Emily, you exposed Lowe for the fraud and a liar that he is. The MSM are not doing their jobs in exposing these charlatans..
may 15, 2025, 3:13 pm • 42 3 • view
Sadly they are doing what they see as their job - ignoring the facts and whipping up race hatred.
may 16, 2025, 4:45 am • 3 0 • view
And now in Leicestershire, an 18 year old Reform councillor is in charge of children’s services. And a fired Police officer is Reform leader of another council.
may 16, 2025, 7:27 am • 3 0 • view
When you limit to one group especially a group that makes a far smaller number, it’s clearly an agenda, an agenda that benefits only xenophobics rather than the actual victims of grooming gangs.
may 16, 2025, 7:22 am • 8 0 • view
Now put Farage to the sword like this.
may 15, 2025, 9:33 pm • 12 0 • view
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may 17, 2025, 2:41 pm • 2 0 • view
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may 15, 2025, 5:49 pm • 1 0 • view
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may 15, 2025, 9:36 pm • 3 0 • view
I thought @maitlis.bsky.social allowed Lowe to talk over her too much, she should have been firmer with him, he wasted time by filibustering.
may 16, 2025, 10:58 am • 3 0 • view
Forensic, fact based, analytical questioning from the brilliant Emily. Not one other journalist comes close to this. Maybe O’Brien could but he’s more comfortable watching from the fence.
may 15, 2025, 7:37 pm • 4 1 • view
He's a sickening piece of shit.
may 15, 2025, 8:20 pm • 3 0 • view
What a repulsive, mansplaining, racist and repugnant man. It made my skin crawl listening to the podcast - he is everything that is wrong with modern Britain
may 15, 2025, 11:00 pm • 6 0 • view