Thread by @JolyonMaugham

Well worth a read on the extraordinary achievement of the organisers of @ReclaimTS in raising over £0.5m for women's charities. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Postscript on the attack on the women running @ReclaimTS in @PrivateEyeNews. There's a writer there, a man, who had been a supporter of my work. He asked me to brief him on stuff I was doing, on eg tax avoidance, Brexit and procurement and wrote about it there and elsewhere.

There was a week in which I briefed him on a piece featuring our work he was writing for a prominent left wing newspaper.

Then I tweeted about the absurdity of the claims Suzanne Moore had been cancelled emitting from almost every major media platform after leaving the Guardian.

He got in touch privately, really angry that I would tweet that way about someone I understood was his friend. I explained my position.

Then the piece in the left wing newspaper didn't appear. Then @PrivateEyeNews carried a really silly attack piece on me.

It was little more than a collection of gripes from enemies - including Pestfix (yep @PrivateEyeNews took the side of a business that won £350m through the VIP lane) - I have picked up along the way. It has since carried another rather snide piece.

I don't care about the attacks on me. I don't do the work I do to win the friendship of the wealthy and powerful and I understand very well I will be attacked for it.

So be it.

But I can't help wondering about the motivation for @PrivateEyeNews' (wildly inaccurate) attack on the young women, who came together in anger at Sarah Everard's killing, none professional fundraisers or politicians, who raised £525k for women's charities and did so much more.

Is it because, like the majority of women, they have an inclusive and intersectional feminism which embraces trans women that they have been attacked in @PrivateEyeNews?

I think we should be told. And I think Ian Hislop should take a look at how his organ is being used.