Deborah Ross on Katy Hopkins!

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

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

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

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

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

Well, Mercedes doesn't refer to a vehicle.

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.

Karma ......

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?

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 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!

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.

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**

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.

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

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

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.

mcem the emphasis in Catriona was on the 'o'
whereas my Scottish friend whose DD has that name, pronounced it more like Catrina, kind of skipping over the 'o' but it was still there iyswim.

Fortunately for those of us here in the UK we have the privilege of free speech. Katie Hopkins shoots from the hip and doesn't always get it right. But at least she has the guts to say what a lot of mealy-mouthed citizens do actually agree with. Her detractors may appear to be in the majority on this forum but her supporters are legion and will miss her if she is gagged.

“her supporters are legion“
I can only hope that those misguided people have not actually read or heard the cruel, racist, bigoted, often vile, often totally wrong comments she has made publicly.
She has made these obnoxious statements to garner attention and make money. Horrible, insensitive, nasty person. I dislike her comments as much as Deborah Ross does.

I've never come across Katie Hopkins( sheltered life) but I have a girl( old lady ) crush on Deborah Ross. She once wrote that no man ever woke up and thought he should put on hurty hurty shoes- talking about stilettos. If we could get her on to men identifying as women to get into women's gaols and their attacks on women being counted as female statistics we will improve things. Apologies for derail but Times female writers are superb.

And wasn’t there a rugby player called Austin Healey (sp?}

Yes, and a sportsman called Jack Russell.

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!
but most of us are not seeking publicity

I suppose there are many on here who are now with someone else's (ex) husband.
Not that he ever mentioned it Gabriella, but he had been engaged before I met him and I had said 'yes' to someone else.
Water under the bridge.

"Her supporters are legion".

Trump likes KH. Probably Putin does too, or would if he knew who she was, Nigel Farage, Marine le Penn, Steve Bannon, Aarron Banks, the guy who owns Cambridge Analytica and all the other nasty characters who have poisoned to minds of the readers of the right-wing tabloids and got us into this awful mess.