Katie Hopkins, hate monger - Held to account

It must mean something worth celebrating that the extreme right-wing British commentator Katie Hopkins would probably, in this country, enjoy a recognition rating on a par with some of our more colourful presidential hopefuls.

She made her reputation, if that is what it is, by offering deeply offensive views, especially on the most vulnerable, the poor and immigrants.

She left The Sun, hardly the home of blushing liberalism, in 2015 after she compared migrants to “cockroaches” and “feral humans” and said they were “spreading like the norovirus”. She once said that the poor had no-one to blame but themselves for their difficulties.

Those are some of her many hateful pieces which have led her to what seems almost an inevitable conclusion.

She was successfully sued for libel and has filed for an involuntary solvency agreement to avoid bankruptcy.

Though she made a career out of kicking people when they were down, the temptation to do that to her must be resisted. Rather, far better to celebrate the fact that the courts can, eventually, hold someone with such libelous views to account.