The Grooming Gangs Reckoning
An Unherd event, 14th July, Julie Bindel, Maggie Oliver and Michelle Wheatley Grooming gangs scandal: short film screening and Q&A
Left to right: Michelle Wheatley, Maggie Oliver, Julie Bindel & Sally Chatterton
For decades, the victims of Britain’s grooming gangs were criminalised instead of the perpetrators. And despite national enquiries and public condemnation, the abuse of young girls persists in the UK. What went so wrong and what can be done to stop it?
Join UnHerd for an exclusive screening of ‘Amber’, a short film telling the story of one victim, in her own words. Following the film’s preview, UnHerd Editor Sally Chatterton will moderate a live Q&A with Maggie Oliver, a former detective who resigned from Greater Manchester Police to reveal the cover-up of the Rochdale grooming gangs, campaigner and columnist Julie Bindel and director Michelle Wheatley.
You can watch the short film, and the first part of the panel discussion here (free to all), or, for Unherd subscribers, here it is in full.
Mohammed Zahid, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court on 14 January, 2025
My investigation, for Unherd, into the scandal, is here.
What went wrong? Left-wing narratives - 1) let’s tolerate and trust the Muslim faith 2) we all have bias and there is institutional racism 3) condemn/cancel those that don’t follow the narrative 4) progressively weaken the justice system 5) pretend we know about ‘communities’ 6) ignore the underclass
Unherd sounds like something we need here in my beloved country.
We have a very patriarchal society in my beautiful South Africa.
Violence and derision and disrespect for women is huggge here, very sadly but truly.
Kindest regards
Respect for your wonderful and precious mission
Carol Power
Johannesburg
Can’t subscribe but I support such ventures nonetheless