It is important to remember the extent to which Hinscliffe chose to shit on women from a great height over Cologne.
I first found out about Cologne probably round about the 3rd or 4th of January, on Mumsnet, because there was a near complete news-blackout on the BBC and in the Guardian. Now, in one sense I have some sympathy - "they" (unspecificed other set up to be demonised) are raping "our" women is one of the oldest tropes in propaganda. So the allegations did need to be fact checked, corrorborated and double-checked. And the German police (who were doing their best to hide the evidence) and German legal system (which at the time defined rape as only having occurred if there was physical forensic evidence to show the woman had fought back) made this very difficult for the press. (And there was undoubtedly disinformation going the rounds - someone on MN linked to a video clip claiming it was the Cologne attacks - it was in fact footage of an American woman journalist being attacked in Tahrir Square during the "Arab Spring.")
So I had to turn to American news sources (the New York Times and Washington Post were reporting it) and German sources (Frankfurter Allegemeine, for example, with a lot of help from google translate). I also tried to put it in context - for instance, reading Egyptian commentaries on the problem of Taharrush Gamea within Arab-speaking societies, and its role in the oppression of women during and after the uprising in Tahrir square.
But it still took the BBC and Graun the best part of a week to admit anything had happened, and the Graun was downplaying the number of attacks by a factor of ten relative to other news sources.
Enter Hinscliffe, who wrote an op-ed piece. Now, the whole situation was crying out for a decent op-ed piece (if for no other reason than that the silence from the left-wing press was creating an information vacuum which the likes of Breitbart were gleefully filling with racist shite). Such a piece would have referenced concepts like Taharrush Gamea as a form of what anthropologists call "corrective rape", tied it up with oppression of women in Muslim communities as well as this attack on a predominantly white group, made the point maybe that although this was a new form of "corrective rape" in the west, we had plenty of forms of corrective rape of our own, from myths about "contributory negligence" in judge's summing-up in rape cases through to the fact that Hamburg had a "red light district" with "no women beyond this point" signs on lamp-posts round its boundaries. Finally, such a piece could have shone a light on the total inadequacy of the German penal code's definition of "rape" which meant that most of the rapes and assaults did not even count, legally, as crimes in Germany at the time. So what did Hinscliffe write?
Basically, it was all the fault of the victims for being well off and having fancy smart-phones. Of course those poor young men were going to feel jealous, who wouldn't?
I will never forgive her for that.
Oh, and Hinscliffe, if you stumble on this thread - you're a fucking middle aged old gimmer just like me, you deluded fool.