Katie Hopkins

Nine days after Derek Draper's death, Hopkins publishes a video mocking Kate Garraway and sarcastically anticipating a book or documentary about her bereavement, prompting a strong public reaction.

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Twitter permanently suspends Hopkins's account in 2020, citing its rules against hateful conduct. Under Elon Musk's ownership, X reinstates her account in 2023.

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Having arrived in Australia to appear on a Channel Seven programme, Hopkins boasts online about breaking or attempting to break hotel quarantine rules, notably by opening her door to staff without wearing a mask.

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Hopkins publishes a message linking Finsbury Park Mosque to an attack on police officers. The mosque maintains that the incident had no connection with it and takes action to obtain a correction and apology.

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Hopkins is briefly detained in South Africa in circumstances she links to allegations of spreading racial hatred. A subsequent Mirror article suggests in its headline that she was detained for using ketamine.

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Hopkins agrees to speak at a For Britain party conference also attended by activists described as Islamophobic and a Holocaust denier, fuelling criticism of her political associations.

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Hopkins confuses Jack Monroe with another activist and publishes two tweets effectively accusing Monroe of having approved or condoned the vandalism of a war memorial. The High Court finds both messages defamatory and establishes serious harm.

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After the Manchester attack, Hopkins publishes a tweet calling for a "final solution", a phrase historically associated with the Nazi regime's extermination of Jews. She subsequently replaces "final" with "true".

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Reported by the press

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Hopkins reacts to the series Dear White People with a tweet beginning "Dear black people" and referring to statistics on stabbings and shootings, prompting a renewed wave of accusations of racism.

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Directly implicated

After a car strikes pedestrians near London's Natural History Museum, Hopkins publishes messages suggesting a terrorist act before police establish that it was a road traffic accident.

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Directly implicated

A MailOnline article by Hopkins falsely portrays teacher Jackie Teale as having taken her pupils to an anti-Trump protest and exposed them to violence there. The outlet acknowledges that these claims were false.

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After a British Muslim family is prevented from boarding a flight to the United States, a Hopkins column on MailOnline suggests links to extremism and al-Qaeda. The outlet subsequently acknowledges that the allegations were false.

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Hopkins makes repeated provocative comments about mental health, notably minimising or mocking depression and suggesting in another context that patients with dementia were burdening the hospital system.

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In a column published during the Mediterranean migration crisis, Hopkins calls migrants "cockroaches" and refers to using "gunships" to prevent crossings, prompting international condemnation.

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After an Ebola case is diagnosed in Glasgow, Hopkins publishes several tweets mocking Scotland and the epidemic. Police Scotland confirms that it is examining complaints to establish whether an offence may have been committed.

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On an ITV programme, Hopkins explains that she judges children and their families by their first names and may prevent her own children from associating with those whose names she associates with a lower social class.

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