There’s a lot that’s deeply dubious about this Gaiman story, but if you think establishment dinosaurs like Johnson and Harding are going to run fabricated text messages from a Scientology scion they’re accusing of rape you’re delusional.
Exactly. Bindel is many things but she’s not an _idiot_ and you don’t go on the record with stuff like this under _British_ libel laws unless you are 100% sure you’ve got the goods.
There's some people on my feed questioning if Gaiman even made a response, which makes sense if all you've heard is "podcast" & "Boris Johnson's sister", but no- that's a site run by people who know precisely how much you can get away with.
I don’t disagree that this is the case but in fairness I don’t think the Scientologists would do much to stick up for someone who has pretty thoroughly (if quietly) cut ties with the church
I am not confident that he sexually assaulted anyone. But he clearly had a sexual relationship with his kid’s fucking nanny, and that’s at best a catastrophic lapse of judgment, and “at best” is quite optimistic based on the last fifty times a powerful man did this sort of shit.