Julie Bindel tells us the Lumos Foundation is a charity set up by JK Rowling to support vulnerable children in orphanages including in Ukraine. Suzanne Moore had the idea to hold a fundraiser for Lumos.

 Suzanne got a message from James Chiavarini, saying “I think we can do better” than a simple fundraiser, and suggesting hosting a dinner at his restaurant, Il Portico, in Kensington.

“I do charity stuff myself,” James told me at the time. “It is the least I can do to help those less fortunate than me. I’d read about how Lumos had been providing support to kids there since 2013, at which time there were well over 100,000 children in institutions across the country.”

A good thing all around, yeah? Raising money for a charity that helps orphans? Hard to see a flaw with the plan, right?

Suzanne sought auction prizes, and people stepped up.

Gary Lineker gave tickets for Match Of The Day, Brian Cox (the scientist) tickets to his show, and Dominic Cummings suggested a prize allowing the winner an opportunity to rant at him about Brexit.

Others contributed original artworks, and tickets to the cricket.

A number of celebrities were there, and former comedian Simon Fanshawe played auctioneer.

Rowling made time on her busy schedule to attend.

The evening was everything Suzanne and James had hoped for. The food was superb, and the auction raised almost £19,000. James and his staff were wonderful; there was fulsome praise for both food and service.

Drinks and conversation continued into the early hours of the morning. “On the evening, not a single person mentioned the gender war or trans. It was just about raising money for the charity and having a good time,” says James.

Well, we can’t have that.

Twitter, as James puts it “exploded”, followed by an avalanche of fake reviews for Il Portico. Many of those tweets and fake reviews make for chilling reading:

“Burn it down next time JK makes a visit.”

“If you’re trans you’re not welcome here.”

“A supporter of transphobia and the food is dry to boot, don’t waste your time.”

When James exposed this on Twitter, one activist responded with “Julie Bindel retweeted it!”, presumably to “expose” James as my friend and seal his fate.

Which would you rather be friends with, Julie Bindel or Jolyon Maugham?

James was called a homophobe, Nazi and bigot by trans activists — all for hosting a charity event for children in Ukraine.

But worse was to come. Later that week, James arrived at the restaurant to discover broken glass on the pavement. He said: “Someone, I’m guessing the trans activists, had smashed the windows, gone into the restaurant and rummaged around for a few minutes before leaving empty-handed.”

Suzanne says that when she heard about the smashed windows and the one-star reviews, it sent her “into a really dark place. We had made money for kids in Ukraine, and yet because trans activists hate us feminists, they want to destroy this man’s business.”

It’s because they hate us feminists and because “trans activism” is inherently narcissistic and demanding and blind to anyone else’s needs.