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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June 6, 2026
Pride and Predator: The Complete Investigation
<p>Late last year, I released Pride and Predator as a series of episodes examining the rise and fall of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kkrxdpndo">Stephen Ireland,</a> the founder of Surrey Pride.</p><p>Many of you said you wanted a way to hear the entire investigation in one sitting, whether for a long journey, walking the dog, or simply so you don't have to lift a finger between episodes.</p><p>So I’ve brought the whole story together into a single feature-length edition.</p><p>The investigation follows Ireland’s rise as a prominent LGBT campaigner, <a target="_blank" href="https://unherd.com/2025/08/did-pride-protect-a-predator/">the warnings raised by those around him</a>, the failures of institutions that should have asked harder questions, and the events that ultimately led to his conviction for serious sexual offences against children.</p><p>It is a story about power, safeguarding, ideology and accountability. Above all, it is a story about <a target="_blank" href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2080066/stephen-ireland-predator-policing/amp">what can happen when people stop asking difficult questions.</a></p><p>If you’ve already listened to the original series, thank you for your support. If you’re new to Pride and Predator, this is the best place to start.</p><p><strong>REPORTER: Julie Bindel</strong></p><p><strong>PRODUCTION TEAM: Maria Esposito, Ashanna Prijs Reeves, Samantha Smith</strong></p><p><strong>ARTWORK: Nicole Jones</strong></p><p><strong>Content warning:</strong> This investigation contains discussion of child sexual abuse, grooming, safeguarding failures, drug use and sexual exploitation. Listener discretion is advised.</p><p>Running time: approximately 2 hours.</p><p></p><p><strong>Prefer to listen episode by episode? All original episodes and bonus interviews are available here.</strong></p><p><strong>Episode One: The Rise of Stephen Ireland</strong></p><p>How Stephen Ireland rose to prominence within Surrey Pride, built influential relationships across local institutions, and became one of the most visible LGBT campaigners in the county.</p><p><strong>Episode Two: The Warnings Nobody Heeded</strong></p><p>As concerns mounted, whistleblowers found themselves ignored, sidelined or attacked. The second episode examines the safeguarding failures, political pressures and culture that allowed warning signs to be dismissed.</p><p><strong>Episode Three: The Fall of Surrey’s Pride Founder</strong></p><p>The final episode follows the investigation, arrests and convictions, and asks what lessons institutions need to learn from one of the most disturbing scandals to emerge from the modern Pride movement.</p><p><strong>Bonus Episode: Bev Jackson – From Gay Liberation to the Capture of Pride</strong></p><p>One of the founders of the UK Gay Liberation Front reflects on the history of Pride, the erosion of safeguarding, and how ideology can shield abuse from scrutiny.</p><p><strong>Bonus Episode: Cllr Mandy Clare – What Happens When You Don’t Look Away</strong></p><p>A local councillor recounts how raising safeguarding concerns about Pride events led to intimidation, arrest and a battle to hold public institutions to account.</p><p>When I started looking into Stephen Ireland and Surrey Pride, I found a much bigger story about institutions, safeguarding, ideology and what happens when people stop asking awkward questions.</p><p>Thank you to everyone who has listened, shared the series, got in touch, and helped spread the word. If you’re coming to Pride and Predator for the first time, I hope you find it thought-provoking. And if you’ve been with me from the beginning, thank you for sticking with it.</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 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>
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