In the news

Why don't they have a 48-hour strike like bus and tube drivers? That'd show people.

Could you imagine how glorious the roads would be with that many fewer cars on it? Ahhhh.....

Heard in the news they caught him at a London train station today

What a fucking hero

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32375113/kim-jong-un-climbs-north-koreas-highest-mountain

From the picture it looks like he did it in a suit and a pair of oxfords.

I'm holding out for when black taxis will be able to use these new fangled things called credit cards rather than all of them just having a sign saying cash only.

A wall of scaffolding has collapsed on a building behind the Royal courts. Roads on all sides of the building closed. Air ambulance circling above.

And just saw four ambulances go by. Fuck.

Crack on and sign this :

https://www.change.org/p/the-sun-newspaper-remove-katie-hopkins-as-a-columnist

or follow (most) of the people of Liverpool, and just don't buy the rag.

Sheeeeeeeeet: http://www.london24.com/news/ambulances_rush_to_serious_building_collapse_1_4041603
:(

Yeah. Looks bad. They're demolishing the building it seems. Scaffold around the entire thing. Middle is all rubble.

Who is this Katie Hopkins? People mention her quite often in relation to how wrong she is, the implication being that I should hate her too. It's a bit like those phone calls I keep getting about PPI: I'm not really sure what it is, I know I've never had it, but I have a vague feeling I'm missing out on something.

I'm not really sure

No, but, it's becaw you are too politik.

Wikipedia? She's published in a major national newspaper. She's scum but she's still got a platform.

just... dont read The Sun?

Nah, also tell people she's awful, just in case they mistake not telling people she's awful for thinking she isn't awful.

notice how those most likely to suggest we just ignore KH are typically those least likely to be the target of her vile opinions. the fact that she's a cunt is made all the more challenge-worthy considering she's been given a platform for her pro-cuntery in a nationally syndicated newspaper. that lots of people read.

Ignore him.

Her whole raison d'être is to get people talking about what she's said. If people ignore her, she's failed.

What she's said is utterly despicable, but it's not the first time she's outraged and probably not the last and she delights in the attention. Removing the oxygen of publicity is a viable option.

getting her and the fucksponge editor of the scum banged up for inciting racial hatred is an even more viabler option.

I thought that the financial crash was caused by under-regulated cunts in the big banks playing fast and loose with other peoples money.

Am I way off base on this and the crisis (and subsequent recession) was actually caused by immigration, "ethnics", and the impact of both of those on the NHS?

(Yes, I am arguing with UKIP supporters on another forum).

I agree with 99% of what you say (especially when it comes to cycling), but ignoring people calling other humans "cockroaches" is not the type of thing I think we should let become acceptable discourse in the national media.

Yes, you're quite wrong. The crash was caused by nasty immigrant city types, coming over here, paying no tax as they are non-doms, thus causing the NHS to run out of money.

British Bankers obviously pay over and above what they should do in tax, due to their innate sense of fair play and stiff upper lips.

Or something.

It's a difficult argument to make though that the press should have freedom of speech (such as with Charlie Hebdo) unless we don't like what the person is saying.

I'm not quite sure why she has become some kind of controversial figurehead and where she has come from and from what I've seen she seems pretty dislikeable but I'd far prefer people to make their own minds up rather than banning something that they don't agree with.

I keep seeing this argument. I don't quite follow it. Freedom of speech is not keeping your mouth shut when people say horrible things.

It's a difficult argument to make though that the press should have freedom of speech (such as with Charlie Hebdo) unless we don't like what the person is saying.

If I don't like what the press says, I express my right to freedom of speech to say so. I think a lot of Charlie Hebdo stuff was racist. I said it before and I'll say it now.

I'm not quite sure why she has become some kind of controversial figurehead and where she has come

To be honest, me neither.

from and from what I've seen she seems pretty dislikeable

Agreed.

but I'd far prefer people to make their own minds up rather than banning something that they don't agree with.

People are making up their own minds by signing petitions to have her fired. That is freedom of speech.