This article is taken from the May 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Get five issues for just £5. Having never previously appeared in a court case, in February I trekked to Manchester to listen in person to an application for judicial review in which I was cast as the villain. The self-declared hero was Lynsay Watson, an ex-cop fired for gross misconduct after a harassment campaign against another gender-critical campaigner.