Do we really need idiots like Katie Hopkins -spreading flagrant lies in the national media and calling it journalism? Blogging is one thing – I can write any old shit on here and nobody will give a fuck – but people like Hopkins spread heir xenophobic bile in national newspapers and cll it journalism. Last night I watched her on ‘The Big Immigration Debate’ , and the woman was spouting all kinds of flagrant bullshit, ignoring the evidence and essentially claiming that immigration was a problem because, according to one poll, seventy percent of people found it a problem. Other panellists had already cited numerous ways immigrants contribute to our economy and society, but Hopkins ignored them, shouting them down again and again and going back to her seventy percent clim as if it was all that mattered. Well, obviously, if seventy percent of people do indeed see immigration as a problem, it is because they have been whipped up into a frenzy by xenophobic journalists like Hopkins printing blatant misinformation in national newspapers.

Thus it is journalists like Hopkins, polluting the national discourse, who are the problem. What they write is harmful; the misinformation they spread actively misleads people. The same goes for idiots like Nigel Lawson, pedalling all kinds of erroneous bull about climate change. Do we really need to read the unsubstantiated shit they spout, when it has the potential to do so much harm? I say no: by all means give them a nice quiet corner of the internet where they can churn out there moronic tosh all day, but being in print gives them a legitimacy they do not deserve.