I also apparently had ‘one of those Tory faces that you wouldn’t ever get tired of dropping an anvil on’.Įven fellow journalists – usually in favour of free expression – waded in. One post detected a ‘strong rapist energy’ coming from me, while another went to the opposite extreme by suggesting that I was an ‘incel’ – an involuntary celibate.
A byline picture taken nearly two decades ago became the focus of the cyber-Colosseum one charmer likened the dimple on my chin to a ‘cat’s a***hole’, while Labour MP Diane Abbott said it was ‘interesting’ that I felt entitled ‘to judge female MPs by their looks’ – something I hadn’t done. Angela Rayner pictured in the Commons opposite Boris Johnsonīy late morning, I was trending. over a light-hearted piece of Commons banter that sparked a storm over ‘misogyny’ and freedom of speech.
Our Political Editor recounts his week of vile abuse at the hands of the Left’s Twitter warriors.
