A Year Ago, They Thought They Had Won.

This time last year, the rape gang scandal was being actively suppressed. The national inquiry had been killed before it started. Survivors were being handled by the same officials who had silenced them for decades. The people responsible for decades of institutional cover-up were calling us conspiracy theorists, racists and far right.

They thought they had won. They thought the smear campaigns had worked. They thought procedure could smother truth. They thought they could exhaust us with delays, deflect us with process, and dismiss us as fringe.

They miscalculated.

Now the truth can no longer be contained

Ministers are on the defensive. Inquiries are being forced into the open. Survivors are speaking directly to power. Officials who thought they were untouchable are finding their records scrutinised, their decisions questioned, their futures uncertain.

What changed was not new evidence. The evidence was always there. What changed was not political will. That remains absent. What changed was us.

The thousands who refused to look away. Who shared the investigations. Who demanded answers. Who turned individual voices into collective pressure that could not be dismissed or deflected. This is what changed.

That is why I desperately fought to remain on the mainstream social media sites and made sure everything I publish remains free. That is why this campaign does not depend on the legacy media or institutional support. It depends on numbers. And numbers are what we have built.

But this is not the end. This is the moment they try to exhaust us. The moment they count on us assuming someone else that they can influence and control can be our voice and lead this campaign.

That assumption will determine whether truth finally surfaces or whether it gets buried for another generation.

Everything I publish is free. That is not an accident. It is a choice.

Truth that sits behind a paywall can be dismissed as niche. Truth that circulates freely becomes dangerous. That is why I refuse to lock this work away. And it is why the future of this campaign does not depend on the legacy media managing this story. It depends on us.

Why the Rape Gang Protectors Fear Scale

The government does not fear lone critics. It absorbs them, ignores them and waits them out. What it fears is scale. They fear ten thousand people reading the same facts. They fear fifty thousand people who cannot be caricatured or isolated. They fear a movement that cannot be quietly strangled by cutting one funding stream or leaning on one individual.

Numbers are visibility. Numbers are protection. Numbers are political weight.

Every inquiry that never happens begins with the same calculation: "This will blow over. There aren't enough of them. They'll get tired." Numbers prove them wrong.

Why I ask for support when the work is free

I don't sell perks. I don't offer exclusives. I don't monetise outrage. Support here is not a transaction. It is commitment.

When someone supports this work, even with buying me a coffee, they are not buying content. They are adding mass. They are helping turn a voice into a bloc, a witness into a constituency, a campaign into something that cannot be dismissed as fringe.

This is how institutions calculate threat. They do not count articles or arguments. They count organised backing. They ask:

• How many people are willing to put something behind this?
• How many have moved from passive reading to active alignment?
• How many will still be here when the pressure mounts?

A campaigner with ten thousand readers is easily managed. A campaigner with ten thousand supporters, all working together to achieve a specific outcome, is a political problem. The difference is not the audience. It is the commitment. It is the signal that these people have chosen a side and declared it with something more than attention.

That transition from reader to supporter is what changes everything.

It transforms isolated criticism into coordinated scrutiny. It turns individual outrage into collective pressure. It makes the difference between something that can be weathered and something that must be addressed.

Traditional media sells access to content. This work builds power to challenge. Not by chasing advertisers or courting editors, but by demonstrating that alongside me stands a constituency of people that cannot be dismissed, discredited, or quietly managed.

When you support this work, you are not subscribing to a newsletter. You are joining a head count that institutions monitor, calculate, and ultimately respect. You are helping turn documentation into accountability, evidence into consequence, truth into political force.

That is how pressure is built. Not by begging institutions to listen, but by making it impossible for them not to.

What numbers actually do

Numbers make silence costly. Ten supporters is background noise. A thousand supporters is an audience they monitor. Ten thousand is a briefing paper on someone's desk. Fifty thousand is a risk assessment. They think in brackets. And every subscription moves us up a bracket.

Numbers force records to surface because missing minutes, buried reports, delayed reviews survive in darkness, not daylight. Numbers protect the messenger because smears work best in isolation and collapse under collective scrutiny. Numbers change the risk calculation because at scale, retaliation creates more attention than compliance.

This is why they try to exhaust campaigns rather than confront them. Starve them, delay them, let them fragment. Numbers prevent that.

This is the moment they count on you giving up

Every cover-up has a middle phase. Not the beginning where denial is loud, or the end where truths finally surface, but the middle. The phase where the public is tired, where journalists move on, where supporters assume someone else will carry it.

That is where most campaigns die. Quietly, respectably, without consequence. This is the phase we are in now. And this is where numbers matter most.

If you read this, you are already part of it

If you read this work, share it and talk about it, then you are already involved. Supporting it simply means formalising that involvement. Not because I need validation or comfort, but because institutions only recognise organised presence.

You don't need to give much. You don't need to give forever. But if enough people give something, this work becomes too visible to bury, too large to isolate, too costly to ignore. That is the entire strategy.

What I'm asking

Subscribe to the newsletter. It's free. That alone increases the count.

Support the work if you can. £3 a month or £30 for the year is enough to be counted. That's the equivalent of 75p a week. Support me not as charity. As leverage. The amount matters less than the signal. You become one more person who cannot be ignored.

Without this, the work stalls at the threshold where institutions wait us out. With it, we cross into the range where they have to respond. As proof that this isn't one man shouting, but tens of thousands standing.

No sponsors. No party machinery. No institutional insulation. Just numbers.

And numbers are the one thing they cannot silence.

Raja Miah MBE

I am Raja Miah. For seven years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs. Prior to this, I spent over a decade of my life trying desperately to safeguard communities from violent extremists.

I am not a commentator. I am more than just a campaigner. I cannot do this without you. I need you to stand with me. We’re running out of time. Without the numbers, they will win. It’s as simple as that.

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- Raja Miah MBE