Let’s Have a Look at All the Claims Made by Both Parties
The BBC
Their first claim. Violence against women and girls is getting worse - Looking at the police report it states five key high harm threats. Sexual violence, domestic abuse, stalking, child sexual abuse and exploitation, and online tech-enabled VAWG. Just under half of the reports to police came from stalking and harassment, with 85% being online. One in five stalking and harassment offences are recorded as 'online'. Another concerning stat shows police recorded VAWG-related crimes increased by 37% over four years with the biggest increase in child victims. The average age of a child sexual abuse victim is 13, with the suspects being 15. As of March 2023, one in every six homicides is domestic abuse homicides. Despite the numbers, it's likely that there are a lot more victims who aren't able to come forward. Many of the perpetrators are repeat offenders with prosecuted rapists on average having raped 2.3 women on average. The proportion of named suspects linked to more than one sex offence ranged from 19.5% - 45.6%. One person in the sample had committed 173 sex offences. Much like any stats, these are hard to use as factual evidence when there can be many explanations for the numbers. The numbers rising could be more people willing to call the police as opposed to more crime being commit. There is also no numbers on how many of those police reports turned out to be false. For any guy that has been involved with toxic women before, we realise they will not hesitate to lie about things like this as they know it's more likely that they'd be believed, the Amber Heard case springs to mind. Here is another article with interviews from ex-police officers claiming that there are many false accusations when it comes to domestic abuse, and that isn't considering many cases of domestic abuse being two-way. The final issue is with online abuse, how can someone ever quantify that? Some studies in the past have suggested that women are more misogynistic than men on Twitter. Yet, how is it possible to know when words are being used sarcastically, or if people are skirting rules and using hate speech with bots not being able to understand it. The BBC should be bringing in the people who have worked on these cases to give their professional opinion on these stats. Whilst many of these stats are concerning, none of them are conclusive or pointing us in a definitive direction. So, is VAWG a national emergency that is increasing? We don't know, and the BBC didn't give us any real reason to believe that.
Their second claim is that Andrew Tate is radicalising young boys. Whilst he is popular, in general this survey shows he's more disliked than liked by men as a whole. This one shows the majority of men do not agree with his views on women, and the largest chunk of people who agree with him do so on the basis of his speeches about work and success. It may be indisputable that some of his followers are more misogynistic on average, but is that a symptom of what we tend to see here written by the BBC which props up one side of VAWG without going into the finer details of what story those stats tell. This is unproven by the BBC here. Let's look at if Andrew's response was true.
Andrew Tate
His first big claim is that the "women who started all of this are liars" in regard to his human trafficking trial. The Tate brothers' attorney says the lead woman is a professional con artist who tried to date Tristan, then decided to destroy him when rejected. A judge yesterday ruled that they had sufficient basis for their claims to move on with the defamation case against this Florida Woman. However, the judge threw out many parts of the lawsuit including the one claiming it was a plot to destroy the Tate's. The only part retained was the potential defamation and defraud claim. However, this does not mean they lied about everything, only that they tried to take advantage of it and make money from the brothers. It's possible at the same time that they did abuse her and she also tried to extort them for money. So, Andrew Tate is misleading when he says that the Florida court deemed the overall human trafficking accusations to be wrong.
His second claim is that sexual assault includes inappropriate jokes. Which seems to also be wrong, the CPS defines it with touching or exposure to body parts being involved. It's possible that he meant sexual harassment, in which it absolutely is included. Though, this is nothing new as sexual harassment is defined as unwanted sexual attention. A joke can be a joke, but it's also very common for people to flirt or be sexually suggestive using jokes.
His third indirect claim of immigration being at fault for the rise in crimes. Despite how hard it is to find the numbers, especially more recently. Signs do indicate that sexual crime is more often committed by religious people and those from minority backgrounds. Back in 2014, a Freedom of Information Request revealed that 12% of rapists in jail were Muslim. in 2014, around 5% of England was Muslim. Finding numbers around religion and race is tough in the last few years. This FOI Request here even stated that their last recorded stats by ethnicity was 2018. Looking at it, there is a disproportionate number of non-white sexual related offences. However, it isn't stated as white British and this may include white immigrants, too. It's also hard to make judgments based on race alone. Another way to find out is look at the victims of crime or the city. Sexual offences are seemingly highest in Bradford, Middlesbrough, and Kingston upon Hull. You can point at Bradford being vastly Muslim and foreign, though Middlesbrough is 86% British white. Looking at ethnicity of the victims in 2018, it shows that mixed, black, and Asian were all disproportionately victims. Considering we know that the majority of sexual crimes are commit by the people they are dating or know. It could indicate that the victims have these crimes committed against them mostly by people of their own ethnicity, much like violent stats show. Again, this isn't concrete. Overall, it seems Tate is somewhat correct with immigration possibly leading to crime against women. However, it's uncertain if it's enough to warrant them calling out specific minority groups.
So, whilst he is correct about many other things in his video such as men being the victims of crime more often, and the BBC not caring about that. He is wrong when it comes to most of his big points, and the BBC weren't as much wrong, as doing a poor job of journalism. Also, his point about the BBC keeping him relevant is quite funny as it is true, and likely to feed into his fame growing and "radicalising" more young boys.