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Katie Hopkins: ‘I definitely identify with that murderer thing, where you click off’ | Katie Hopkins | The Guardian

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The reality TV star and columnist mocks autism, but says her daughter is ‘on the spectrum’. She derides the ‘National Hotel Service’, but has epilepsy so severe it puts her in hospital. Is Katie Hopkins for real, asks Jon Ronson M ost people will do anything to avoid being hated, but Katie Hopkins seems to run frantically towards hatred. Take the 18 days of her life beginning on 29 March. She started with a series of tweets mocking depression: “UK has seen a 500% growth in anti-depressants since 1991. Like being bullied, being depressed is a fashionable thing to be… The ultimate passport to self-obsession.” A week later, she moved on to dementia: “1 in 4 hospital beds are taken up by someone with dementia. The National Hotel Service.” Ten days after that, like a spree killer growing increasingly frenzied, she provoked an international incident. “Show me bodies floating in water… I still don’t care.” This is how her 17 April column for the Sun about migrants began. Migrants were “a plag

Katie Hopkins: ‘Do I lack empathy? Yes. Remorse? Definitely.’ Photograph: Bohdan Cap for the Guardian View image in fullscreen Katie Hopkins: ‘Do I lack empathy? Yes. Remorse? Definitely.’ Photograph: Bohdan Cap for the Guardian Katie Hopkins This article is more than 10 years old Interview Katie Hopkins: ‘I definitely identify with that murderer thing, where you click off’ This article is more than 10 years old Jon Ronson The reality TV star and columnist mocks autism, but says her daughter is ‘on the spectrum’. She derides the ‘National Hotel Service’, but has epilepsy so severe it puts her

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