British comedian Katie Hopkins isn't everyone's cup of tea, and I get it. She can be downright rude, but often, she's brutally funny and cuts so fast and deep that a target may not realize she smacked at them until they feel something stinging a bit later.
I have always admired (and used in quite a few of my posts) her fearless and legendary report from Sweden about the sanguine Swedish approach to finding 'a bomb in a bin' outside of a police station in a predominantly Muslim immigrant neighborhood.
Apparently, it happened so often, they didn't want Hopkins mentioning the hand grenade found in the trash can on the street because, well, why upset everyone?
It didn't go off, right? What's the harm then.
...I saw it in action when I ran to the scene of an unexploded hand grenade in a bin outside the police station of a no-go area of town, near a mosque. I asked the police who the target was.
They said they didn't know. I asked the Muslim leader at the mosque. He said he thought it was the police.
Then two women grabbed me and told me not to make this about the mosque, not to make this a Muslim issue. This was about the police — nothing to do with migrants. I wondered if they weren't missing the point. A bomb in a bin.
Within twelve hours of my landing in Sweden, an asylum centre was burned down, arson suspected; a hand grenade was planted in a bin, either for the police or the mosque; and another hand grenade exploding, injuring one in Malmö.
Whether this noisy stuff matters or not is open to debate. I'd argue this is madness. I am in utter disbelief that this is Sweden in the 21st century, a country idolised for its ultra-advanced ideals.
A cameraman for the Swedish equivalent of the BBC asked me why this had to be politicised at all; why couldn't it just be that someone put an explosive device in a bin?
I looked at him and wondered which one of us was mad.
That was in March of 2017. Two months later, a Muslim suicide bomber detonated and exploded a bomb packed with nails at an Ariana Grande concert in London.
It killed 22 people and horrifically injured 59, many of them children who'd attended the concert. A furious and heartsick Hopkins tweeted out a shocking, heated message, demanding an end to the Islamic scourge, and just as quickly rephrased, then deleted it. But she was reported anyway for her initial, admittedly offensive wording, and lost her gigs on the radio and at the paper. Basically, becoming a pariah overnight.
In 2020, she was banned from Twitter and only reinstated in late 2023, when Elon Musk purchased the social media site.
Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson have had their accounts reinstated on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Hopkins, who first rose to fame in the third series of The Apprentice, was permanently banned in 2020 for breaching the site’s rules on “abuse and hateful conduct”.
At the time, she had over one million followers, and had incited backlash after criticising the Black Lives Matter movement and sparking a feud with footballer Marcus Rashford over his lobbying for the extension of the free school meal scheme.
That had Muslim activists all in a lather. God forbid anyone is critical of Muslims in the UK.
...Nick Lowles, CEO of HOPE not hate said: “Reinstating Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins means Elon Musk is allowing hateful content and misinformation to take place on his watch on X/Twitter.
“At a time of when extremists on all sides are whipping up fear and hate over the conflict in the Middle East, often on X/Twitter, allowing two of Britain’s most prominent anti-Muslim activists back will only make matters worse.
“We will be writing to X to make it clear that danger that their content poses.”
In 2021, Hopkins started something on her Instagram channel called The Katie's Arms (archived here on YouTube). They were meant to be little Friday night live broadcasts of her comedy and social commentary, to help people chill out and maybe laugh during the depths of the COVID pandemic repression and insanity in the UK.
This is a fan-based channel dedicated to The Katie's Arms an online virtual pub that was founded early in 2021 by independent British journalist Katie Hopkins. It's a place to interact with friends old and new in a positive and uplifting manner once a week for 30 minutes. Usually broadcast on her Instagram page on a Friday at 8pm UK time and 3pm eastern US time it is moderated by Katie.
Watching the broadcast, knowing who and what she is, and what she can dish out and how, is a choice. There's no accidentally stumbling across any of it.
Which made this revelation seem really suspicious concerning an incident that happened in early August.
Divisive celebrity Katie Hopkins says she has been interviewed under caution by Devon and Cornwall Police following statements she made on her weekly stream on social media.
The outspoken influencer said she was "threatened with arrest" if she did not attend the interview in connection with her 'Katie's Arms' broadcast that she streams live every Friday.
Hopkins, from Barnstaple, says she started the 'comedy pub night' during the Covid-19 pandemic as a way to make people laugh.
In a video circulating online this week, Hopkins read a statement in front of Exeter Police Station where she said her presence at the station was "ridiculous".
Here's her statement.
Katie Hopkins reads a statement outside Exceter Police Station!
— Benonwine (@benonwine) September 23, 2025
WE STAND WITH YOU KATIE ❤️✊
Good for you Katie stand your ground. pic.twitter.com/UPIACaIrhr
During a Katie's Arms show, she apparently offended a handicapped person, who reported the episode and her.
I'm serious - that's what this is about.
Although the British government is desperate to shut her admittedly foul mouth down, there's no question. Her other running videologue is on X, and it's called Bats**t Bonkers Britain with a companion 'comedy' tour of the same name (A girl's got to make a living). When I remember to check it out, it's usually a vicious hoot, and always at the expense of Starmer and Labour. She takes chunks of political flesh.
The episode from a couple of days ago, I can actually share here - it was pretty benign language-wise for her.
With her name recognition, over a million followers on almost every platform, and the current state of the public sentiment in the UK, you'll get an idea of why the government is all in on taking her out.
I absolutely adore @KTHopkins
— Joni Job (@jj_talking) September 23, 2025
You Go Girl 🥊
Katie Hopkins: Bonkers Britain 22nd September 2025 pic.twitter.com/C3IjnhWc88
Hopkins explained to Roseanne what the offensive word offense she'd been called in for was.
This is why Katie Hopkins was confronted by the British Police
— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) September 24, 2025
She referred to herself as a spaz
Apparently this is a hate crime against herself or something
We live in very dark times in the UK pic.twitter.com/bw0kZdhaWO
That 'spaz' hurt someone's feelings enough to call the police, who, thanks to the authoritarians running the country, could demand she present herself for an 'interview under caution.'
The fact that Hopkins had a twenty-year-long running battle with epilepsy that subjected her body to violent fits doesn't give her any more right to call herself a spaz in public than it does to wish obliteration on Islamic terrorists.
#HurtFeelings and #MeanWords are the instruments of repression for an oppressive state apparatus.
I can't wait until Starmer gets his 'Islamophobia' definition officially in the books.
No joke. It'll be Katie, bar the door then.
Well.
If she's not already in prison.
