Podcast series; Julie Bindel investigates how the UK paedophile Stephen Ireland used Pride as a cover for his crimes. <br/><br/><a href="https://juliebindel.substack.com/s/pride-and-predator?utm_medium=podcast">juliebindel.substack.com</a>
PRIDE AND PREDATOR
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Podcast series; Julie Bindel investigates how the UK paedophile Stephen Ireland used Pride as a cover for his crimes. <br/><br/><a href="https://juliebindel.substack.com/s/pride-and-predator?utm_medium=podcast">juliebindel.substack.com</a>
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December 20, 2025
PRIDE AND PREDATOR EPISODE FIVE
<p><strong>Cllr Mandy Clare - What Happens When You Don’t Look Away</strong></p><p>This is a bonus episode - an extended interview with <strong>Mandy Clare</strong>, a local councillor who did what so many others wouldn’t: she turned up, she paid attention, and she refused to pretend that safeguarding failures were none of her business.</p><p>Mandy isn’t a campaigner by instinct. She’s a councillor who took her responsibilities seriously, particularly her role as a corporate parent to children in care. What she found when she began scrutinising Pride events in her area was ideological capture and a total collapse of basic boundaries around children, sex, and public decency.</p><p>This conversation is difficult listening, but it’s essential.</p><p>Mandy walks us through what she witnessed at Pride events in Cheshire: sexualised performances in child-accessible spaces, fetish material at child eye-level, public bodies marching alongside explicit sexual imagery, and a complete refusal by organisers, councillors, and police to intervene when concerns were raised.</p><p>What follows is one of the most disturbing accounts I’ve heard in years.</p><p>Mandy describes how, after gathering evidence and pressing for safeguarding improvements, she became a target. At a subsequent Pride event - which she attended openly, calmly, and in an observational capacity - she was singled out from the stage, surrounded by a hostile crowd, physically assaulted, ignored by security, and ultimately arrested.</p><p>She was held in police custody for nearly a full day.</p><p>The case against her collapsed because there was no evidence to support it. Yet the punishment had already been delivered: months of fear, reputational damage, financial stress, trauma, and silence enforced by legal threat.</p><p>In this episode we talk about:</p><p>* How Pride events became embedded with local councils, police, and public services</p><p>* Why safeguarding concerns are reframed as “hate”</p><p>* The weaponisation of crowds, security, and police against women who speak out</p><p>* How ideology distorts policing decisions in real time</p><p>* The chilling effect this has on democracy and scrutiny</p><p>* Why so many people stay silent - and why Mandy didn’t</p><p>This is a story about what happens when an ideology is allowed to override law, evidence, and basic human instinct.</p><p>Mandy’s experience should alarm anyone who believes in child protection, freedom of conscience, or the right of elected officials to do their job without fear of mob violence or state retaliation.</p><p>If you think this couldn’t happen to you, or where you live, listen carefully.</p><p><strong>Content warning:</strong></p><p>This episode includes discussion of mob intimidation, physical assault, arrest, police custody, and safeguarding failures involving children.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe</a>
December 20, 2025
PRIDE AND PREDATOR EPISODE FOUR
<p><strong>Bev Jackson - From Gay Liberation to the Capture of Pride</strong></p><p>This is a bonus episode - an extended, in-depth conversation with <strong>Bev Jackson</strong>, one of the founding members of the UK Gay Liberation Front, a co-founder of <strong>LGB Alliance</strong>, and a woman who has watched the gay rights movement from its birth to its current, deeply troubling incarnation.</p><p>I wanted this conversation in the series because you cannot understand what has happened to Pride, in Surrey or anywhere else, without understanding its political roots, its moral failures, and the repeated refusal to confront abuse when it appears in progressive clothing.</p><p>Bev takes us right back to the early 1970s: what Gay Liberation actually meant, how it differed from women’s liberation, and why lesbians were so often sidelined even at the moment of supposed radical change. She talks candidly about the misogyny inside early gay politics, the naïvety many of us had, and the belief - later proven disastrously wrong - that “progress” inevitably meant moral improvement.</p><p>We then move into territory that many organisations still refuse to touch:</p><p>the overlap between sexual libertarian ideology and the systematic erosion of child safeguarding.</p><p>Bev explains how, in the 1970s and 80s, paedophile advocacy groups deliberately embedded themselves in gay rights organisations under the banner of “liberation”, and how that history has been quietly buried rather than reckoned with. She traces a direct line from those years to the present - to Pride committees, lobbying organisations, and charities that treat safeguarding as an inconvenience and whistleblowers as enemies.</p><p>We talk in detail about:</p><p>* How Pride shifted from a political protest to a brand-managed spectacle</p><p>* The deliberate collapse of boundaries between adult sexuality and children</p><p>* Why “inclusion” has come to mean silencing lesbians and gay men</p><p>* Stonewall’s role in training institutions to ignore the law</p><p>* The catastrophic impact of gender ideology on child safeguarding</p><p>* Why lesbians who raise concerns are smeared, expelled, or punished</p><p>* How figures like Stephen Ireland were shielded by ideology, not ignorance</p><p>This episode also addresses something rarely said out loud: that the language of “kindness”, “allyship”, and “protecting kids” is now routinely used to mask risk, not reduce it.</p><p>Bev does not speak as an outsider. She speaks as someone who was there at the beginning and who refuses to lie about where we have ended up.</p><p>If you care about gay rights, women’s rights, or the safety of children, this conversation matters. It is not comfortable listening. It is not meant to be.</p><p><strong>Content warning:</strong></p><p>This episode contains discussion of child sexual abuse, paedophile advocacy, and safeguarding failures. Listener discretion advised.</p><p>—</p><p>This is a bonus episode featuring an extended interview. </p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe</a>
December 20, 2025
PRIDE AND PREDATOR EPISODE THREE
<p>In this episode, I go to Guildford to see what happens after Stephen Ireland and David Sutton have been convicted of serious child sexual offences.</p><p>The question is simple: once the facts are established in court, do the institutions involved stop, reflect, and account for what went wrong?</p><p>What I find instead is continuity. Pride in Surrey <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5qnp236glo.amp">goes ahead</a>. Public bodies continue to lend support. Safeguarding questions are deflected. Reviews are promised but not produced. And those asking for clarity are <a target="_blank" href="https://guildford-dragon.com/feminist-campaigner-thrown-out-of-pride-in-surrey-for-asking-about-safeguarding/">treated as the problem</a>.</p><p>Episode Three brings together courtroom testimony, first-hand observation, and interviews with whistleblowers, journalists, councillors, and campaigners who raised concerns long before Ireland’s arrest, and who are still <a target="_blank" href="https://www.surreyworld.co.uk/news/politics/council/council-under-pressure-to-release-findings-of-pride-in-surrey-review-5369175">waiting for answers</a>.</p><p>You’ll hear from women who sat through the sentencing and describe both relief and anger: relief that justice was finally done, and anger that earlier warnings were not acted on. We revisit what Ireland was convicted of and examine whether those convictions prompted meaningful institutional change.</p><p>This episode also documents what happened when we attended Pride in Surrey in person. We asked straightforward questions about safeguarding and governance at a publicly funded event. Within hours, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjvdym7y8ko.amp">we were removed</a> from the site. No reasoned allegations were made about our conduct. We were told just that our asking presence made people “uncomfortable”.</p><p>Episode Three examines:</p><p>* What happened in court, and why the convictions matter</p><p>* Whether warnings raised before the offences were properly investigated</p><p>* How councils and public figures responded after the verdicts</p><p>* Claims made about safeguarding reviews - and what evidence exists</p><p>* The treatment of journalists and campaigners seeking accountability</p><p>* The wider question of trust, transparency, and governance within Pride organisations</p><p>This is not an argument about sexuality or identity. It is an examination of power, accountability, and child safeguarding and what happens when institutions close ranks instead of asking hard questions.</p><p>Content warning:</p><p>This episode includes discussion of child sexual abuse, rape, safeguarding failures, and institutional responses to criminal convictions.</p><p>—</p><p>Further documents, updates, and any published reviews will be linked on my Substack as they become available.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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