There have been numerous surveys over the years intended to prove that conservatives are more stupid than liberals and vice versa, so many that it is almost impossible to draw any meaningful conclusion. It is of course an important issue and so, in lieu of yet another survey, could I suggest that you watch a single edition of The News Agents podcast and you should be left in no doubt as to the correct answer. Whether it be Jon Sopel asserting the brilliance of the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to Washington, or almost anything Emily Maitlis says on any issue, or just to see Lewis Goodall – merely to catch the faintest glimpse – will immediately direct you to the correct conclusion. Stupid is as stupid does, as I believe Forrest Gump’s mother was fond of saying.

It’s the response of the white institutions to the grooming gangs that really needs investigating

I watched Maitlis interviewing the independent (formerly Reform) MP Rupert Lowe on this asinine show. Mr Lowe recently crowdfunded, and has now successfully launched, an independent inquiry into the ‘grooming gangs scandal’ which dominated many of our headlines last year and looks likely to continue so doing. His decision to have an independent inquiry was made because he has one or two doubts about the government’s own inquiry. So does almost everybody who has been asked to take part in it, as it happens. The suspicion is that the government, harried into ‘doing something’ in response........

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