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 it all. He [can] STFU [shut the fuck up] and reciprocate … Think you know me well enough by now to understand how I work.” He dropped the action soon after we entered that message into our evidence bundle. Recently the website Reduxx revealed that the same man was previously convicted of indecent assault on a 14-year-old boy, and was a registered sex offender.
All this, I felt, would intrigue Hislop, and perhaps find easy placement in the “In The Back” section of , which had a reputation for investigative journalism — uncovering scandals, unethical practices, and
