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There are lots of reasons to dislike Lily Allen, a Mockney posho with the ego of Stephen Hawking and fewer personal achievements than Tara Palmer-Tomkinson's pet goldfish.

But that doesn't mean Lily doesn't serve a social function, and if she's prepared to go into bat against the unpleasant piece of work who is NOT called Tommy Robinson, former leader of the English Defence League then she is welcome to take her turn at the crease with the rest of us.

In a row that started about whether the Turkish nightclub killer was a migrant, he talked about "Muslim grooming gangs" in places like Rotherham and she pointed out: "I’ve only ever been sexually assaulted by white males so I feel slightly biased.”

When two people not everyone loves get in a ruck it's tempting to wish they'd both be wiped out by a tiny-but-accurate meteor strike and get on with your day.

But Lily is right - it IS white males we need to worry about.

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It's white men who run the world. It's white men who prosecute the crimes, hand down the jail sentences, decide how little to pay female staff, and tell the lies that keep everybody else blaming each other for the world's problems.

Because despite what white males tell you there is no such thing as a "Muslim grooming gang". It doesn't say anywhere in the Koran that believers should get together, drug, threaten and abuse vulnerable girls.

The official punishments in the Koran for rape are much the same as those of the Bible . White men don't, generally, read either book closely.

And before anyone says "yeah but Mohammed married a 9-year-old didn't he?" yes, and Mary was anywhere between 10 and 14 when she was impregnated by someone claiming to be an angel. Religions make stuff up.

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The men convicted of organised grooming in Rotherham, Peterborough, Oxford and other places were Muslims. They were also taxi drivers and takeaway staff.

To blame it on things people wrote 1,200 years ago is as daft as blaming it on medieval fried chicken, or the invention of the wheel. It's far more likely to be something to do with the fact that vulnerable young girls will be out late at night, just as their abusers were.

At this point someone will say "ah, but figures I saw somewhere show there's disproportionately more paedophiles in the Muslim population".

Um, no.

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A 2011 report from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection unit found people convicted of grooming offences were 38% white, 26% Asian and 32% ethnicity unknown.

Asians form 7% of the UK population, so it does seem out of kilter until you ask if Asians are more likely to be convicted by a mostly-white jury that's been repeatedly told Muslims do all the child abuse.

CEOP itself says the data is not reliable because it comes in part from a handful of areas where there's been a big focus on this type of crime. The first Rotherham abuse trial was in 2010, the year before these figures were gathered.

In other words, there seems to be a sex abuse problem in places like places like Rotherham, where it's been on trial and not from, oh I don't know, Westminster where it hasn't.

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Experts reckon about 0.5% to 1% of everyone, of every colour, is a paedophile - someone who responds sexually to children more than adults.

By that token there should be about 641,000 of them in the UK. As of 2007 the Prison Service had just 8,865 sex offenders under lock and key.

If they were in proportion to the racial diversity outlined in the 2011 census, they'd be 87% white, 7% Asian and 3% black British.

But according to the Ministry of Justice, in 2010 those convicted of any sort of sex offence were 76% white, 7% black and 8% Asian.

So then we're back to asking whether a black rapist might be twice as likely as one of a different colour to get banged up, and if some of the white men are getting away with it.

It's not God-fearing Muslims that are the threat here. It's not migrants either, otherwise Not Called Tommy's Irish parents would be of equal concern.

There are 11m children in the UK, and for every 20 of them there's probably one paedophile. The vast majority of those paedophiles are white men.

The vast majority of police officers are also white men. In 2015, 5.5% of police officers were from ethnic minorities compared to 14% of the population.

The vast majority of judges who hand down prison sentences are white men, too. Only 5.9% are from a minority, and just 1 in 4 are women.

Oh, and the figures seem to show white paedophiles are probably less likely to get locked up. What a surprise!

It's white males, worldwide, who are causing themselves and the rest of the planet the most problems.

It was white males over 45 with an income of $100,000 or more who voted for tiny-fingered Donald Trump to run the free world.

It was white males who voted for Brexit, and white males who insisted the drop in the pound, the rise in prices and fuel, and the complete shambles being disorganised in Whitehall and Brussels about the whole sorry situation is not something to worry about.

Oh, and it is white males who want to "take our country back". From whom is unclear, seeing as they already run the place.

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It's white males who do less well at school. It's white males who commit suicide in greater numbers. It's white males who say there's no climate change and not enough war.

It's white males who are angry and who despair and who lash out at others. It's white males who need society's help, but because it's white males who run society they're not getting it.

To that end white males reluctantly acknowledged a thing that already existed called "diversity". They thought they would be able to absorb other people's help without having to ask, just by letting them share the same office.

Unfortunately once they had it white men decided "diversity" made them feel less white and less male - what could be worse? - so they turned it into an insult.

And when the world said they were being silly they turned around and said: "I am being oppressed."

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Let me ask you this: if all the statistics show you're running the world, and all the evidence shows you're not running it very well, how long do you think you'll be in the job?

The answer appears to be "for as long as we can make you think it's somebody else's fault". Which is not a realistic long-term strategy, and is hardly fair to the Muslims, the teenage girls who get drunk, or the mums who go back to work and who get all of the criticism but cause barely any of the problems.

If the world's to be run reasonably we all need to put our backs into it, to rise above the urge to blame an outsider for problems we caused and find solutions to them. To acknowledge that not all white men are sex offenders but sex offenders ARE more likely to be white men.

If someone as daft and silly and up-herself as Lily Allen knows that much, then frankly white males have no excuse for not figuring it out as well.

If all the white men who aren't sex offenders tried being a little less idiotic, the world would be a much better place.