Deborah Ross on Katy Hopkins!

I don't think casting stones about is the point here - if we never judge or criticise then nobody would have stopped Hitler because telling him he had it all wrong with his master plan and to get his troops out of Poland might have been deemed unkind. I don't think that saying people can drown or starve is any different to the lady's other comments about a 'final solution', which I think was also an idea borrowed from Adolf's guide to humanity. Katy Hopkins probably talks some sense but she also, for sensationalism and publicity, spouts a great deal that is appallingly unpleasant and unnecessary. Comments of that nature stir up dislike, hatred even; not healthy for any society.

Cast the first stone (finished that sentence for you GabriellaG.)

I suppose there are many on here who are now with someone else's (ex) husband.
Let he who is without sin...

Quizqueen It is difficult not to judge and be bitchy about a woman who likens refugees to cockroaches and, as in her column in the Sun, states that she does not care if they starve or drown. Many of these refugees are innocent children of course. I too am a leaver but I despair when I read comments such as these. If that makes me sound superior so be it.

Elegran
It could.
There was a little boy on a morning tv programme a few years ago whose name was Saab. I thought it suited him very well.
I have a friend whose eldest son is named Aston Martin M**

Jalima that is pretty much the way it's pronounced in our family.
Not like Katrina but not quite Catri ohn na. It's Catreeona with emphasis on ee not on o. It's one variation of Scottish Gaelic.

I suppose making bitchy comments about someone whose views you don't agree with makes you all feel superior to her. However, it just puts you in the same category that you accuse her of being i.e. judgemental!

I happen to agree with everything she says and I also think that Brexit will be the best thing that could happen to the UK. That's my view and it's Katie's view and it's as valid as any of yours, even if we're outnumbered about 100 to 1.

I wonder how many of you have taken any of these refugees into your own home or given a substantial amount of your income every month to sustain them or offered your place on the NHS waiting list to them or offered your council property to them etc. or do you just expect others to cover those costs or be inconvenienced?

Perhaps you'd all also like to reveal the names you've chosen for your own offspring so they can be open to ridicule online if others think they are silly!

Elegran, nor does Portia ?
Wasn't KH's man in the cornfield someone else's husband? They weren't running through the corn as far as I recall.

I've just read the article. Then went on to another by Deborah Ross about Panama hats for fighting aging!
She is hilarious
Meat and cheese holidays anyone?

Karma ......

I read the article at lunchtime. Wow, Katie Hopkins must have upset Deborah Ross! However, having read a few of the comments made by this attention seeking creature it seems that what comes around, etc.

Well, Mercedes doesn't refer to a vehicle.

I do hope that we're not going to get reverse snobbyness about children with names which allude to vehicles.

She wasn't harvesting corn, I take it, DanniRae

A teacher friend who was reading The Philosopher's Stone to her class insisted I was wrong to refer to Harry Potter's sidekick as Her my oh ne when it was obviously Her may own! ( my phonetics!)
It's always been Her-my-oh-ne as far as our family knew
(although the latest one in the family is sometimes called Hermy One if someone is teasing).

We knew a Catriona whose name was pronounced as you see it - Cat-ree-oh-na

“Par-then-o-pee” Jalima, like Persephone
I keep practising but getting it mixed up

I have a dim memory of KH being caught on camera with a man in the middle of a corn field and I am sure she shouldn't have been there but don't recall why. Does anyone else remember this.............it was ages ago

Florence and Parthenope (Naples) definitely named after cities,

Phew! I was beginning to doubt my memory. Thanks for confirmation, winterwhite and Purpledaffodil

Florence and Parthenope (Naples) definitely named after cities, their parents had a two year honeymoon if I remember rightly ?And wasn’t Brooklyn Beckham named after place in which he was conceived??

Unfortunately, it isn't until Harry Potter and the goblet of Fire that Hermione informs anyone that she prefers Hermyonee, so I had been happily calling her Hermeeonie for years as that is how my second-cousin who was twenty years older than I pronounced her name.

I think you are right, winterwhite, I dimly remember that Florence Nightingale was named for Firenze and her sister for Naples, due to their parents having spent their honeymoon in those places, or some such thing.

Whoa! Please. Some responses here sail close to the wind. Why is your kind of bullying acceptable and hers not. I am certainly no fan of the lady but really- saying that only leavers children would be given those names is rather insulting.

Found the Times article and laughed a lot!! I also read a Deborah Ross article on Waitrose advertising their student store cupboard essentials which included rose harissa paste and organic apple cyder vinegar. When she started to spell words like time as tyme and single as syngle, I was in stitches.

Isn't Parthenope also the classical name for Naples (so to speak), and that was the Nightingale association?

Didn't it used to be 'Her my knee' as in Hermione Gingold all those years ago?
However, to get back to KH, yes I expect she's the author of her own misfortune - if you're going to be continuously nasty it'll come back to you eventually, won't it? How the mighty fall, eh?

mcem