Case of #NotMeToo

WE ARE only just beginning to grasp the extent of the cover-up of abuse and harassment at high-profile politicised charities. The Mail on Sunday’s revelations about the alleged behaviour of Brendan Cox, widower of the murdered Labour MP Jo Cox, have caused the Left-wing establishment to shrivel back into its shell like a salted snail.

Surely, this is the sort of behaviour that they have all been condemning at top volume for months, from Hollywood to Hackney. Yet voices that were loud and strident in the denunciation of Harvey Weinstein, and which immediately assumed the guilt of anyone accused, suddenly falter and grow hesitant when one of their own is exposed.

Is it now a case of #NotMeToo? It is mainstream newspapers, such as The Mail on Sunday, which have pursued this story far more thoroughly than the Leftwing media.

Both Mr Cox and his boss, Justin Forsyth were not only allowed to walk away when serious allegations were made against them, they ‘failed upwards’, slipping into new jobs better than the ones they had quietly left.

As one former Save the Children worker rightly asks, if white women with master’s degrees are not safe in a charity’s London workplace, what chance does a young black woman in Haiti have?

Having fashionable opinions, and friends in high places, should not protect anyone, anywhere.