However, on the Bainbrig post I last commented on, I approve of this paragraph:
"Maybe the cases are linked by the fact that all the men involved in all the cases were ‘night’ workers (minicab drivers, takeaway shop staff, etc) - part of the demi-world, not part of mainstream life."
Bainbrig is asking an obvious question: given identical crimes being committed in many towns and cities in England what are the common factors(if any) which link them. It seems inconsistent of him that Bainbrig thinks it OK to point out that the perpetrators largely work in the "night-time economy", but doesn't think it's OK to point out that most of them are Muslim.
Well, "the cases are linked" by the fact that they're mainly night workers, and[i by the fact they're mainly Pakistani, [i]and[i] by the fact they're mainly Muslim. It doesn't follow, of course, that they commit the crimes [i]because] of any, some or all of these factors.