WHY DID THE EYE LOOK AWAY?

Graham Linehan thought a title known for investigative journalism would be concerned by a series of trans scandals

HERE’S A FUNNY STORY. A FEW YEARS BACK, I wrote to Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye, and told him about a trans rights activist who was using the courts to harass and intimidate women. The man, who had been known under various identities — none of them associated with good deeds — before settling on a female one, targeted his victims by using the police and the courts, opening a legal case and reporting a hate crime on the same day, so as to apply maximum stress and pressure to his targets. He released my home address online, terrifying my wife, and sued me twice. The second case he dropped when someone sent me a message in which he had said “Graham has a simple way to end…

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