Glinner takes a cold hard look at the ineffable James Billingham:

This is James Billingham, a man who has numerous sock accounts online, such as Kilgore Sprout, Sprout of Wrath, the only Sprout and Oolon, who appears to have a burning hatred of women who are invested in safeguarding women’s or children’s rights.

Billingham spends an inordinate amount of time doing the dirty work of some of the creepiest and most dangerous gender identity extremists. He minimised the vicious assault by a large man on Maria McLachlan as a slap ‘on the shoulder’ and suggested that McLachlan, a pensioner, was ‘by far the most violent person there’, an assertion completely contradicted by footage of the attack, for which Tara Wolf was convicted.

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Billingham takes great pleasure in infiltrating or encouraging others to infiltrate feminist groups on Facebook. He then reveals out-of context messages, leaks membership lists or doxxes members in order to cause maximum distress and disruption. The wonderful Man Friday campaign for single-sex spaces ended after screenshots that outed some members of the group were leaked and publicised by a Sprout sock account via #TERFleaks. More recently, he set up a domain name almost identical to that of the LGB Alliance, which was linked to Stonewall’s site. The LGB Alliance tracked Billingham down and raised a dispute with Nominet Dispute Resolution Service, which they won.

He’s a giggling sadist whose sadism is directed at women. He’s as creepy as Buffalo Bill.