Trouble't'mill

In response to Katie Hopkins the Sun Column...

Here she goes again, Katie Hopkins charging forth with nothing but bile to spit at passers by, this time in the face of Nigella Lawson. It is no surprise that the only publication willing to publish her, frankly poisonous opinion is the moral sewer that is the Sun.  As if her reputation is not already on the rocks, she continues to offend further pockets of the population, now thoroughly alienating Nigella fans with her upper-middle class, borderline pretentious observations on how one should live ones life. I felt compelled to defend Nigella Lawson because, first of all she's ace! And also because Katie Hopkins needs to be reminded at every opportunity that British journalism should be about facts with an entertaining twist, not a constant need to ridicule and attack other people. 

This time there is no Holly or Philip to gag her as she goes too far, and quite undoubtedly she lunged over the Line with her insulting column documenting Nigella's 'fall from graces'. Hopkins undeniably chose her moment wisely, climbing on to her broom and launching her attach just as Nigella's admission and apology went out To the world; clearly an attempt to overshadow and belittle her as Hopkins needs the fleeting spotlight to save her rapidly deteriorating career. 

Nigella is apparently 'in the gutter' ...oh the irony. The column seems only to have been written to attempt personal digs about Nigella's bust size and 'seductive glances' which should be no concen to Hopkins and are definitely no relevance to any recent news issue. In typical style she loses sight of any real point she may have initially wanted to make and stoops to petty insults based on jealously and a need to be outrageously unkind in order to appear controversial. Perhaps she should instead focus on the journalism rather than unfriendliness. 

Hopkins likes to think her standards hold so much more integrity than Nigella's, who allegedly smokes cannabis in the company of her children, yet she will openly declare support for calling children, who ever's they may be, fat or ugly or whatever else. She stated on national television various opinions on how she stereotypes and interacts with people based on weight, class, tattoos, hair colour, name and much more which essentially bulldozers the work of all anti bullying campaigns in the last 50 years. But she would NEVER stoop as low as Nigella who's dabble with drugs is the cardinal sin... Sarcasm very much intended. 

Her Saatchi's had 'a lot in his plate' comment can be almost entirely disregarded. In fact I bid you all erase it from your memory immediately. He may have had a bad week where he had to buy Tracey Emin a pack of wine guns to calm her down after a calamitous disaster of getting some of her finger painting on his cream loafers, but I hardly think this compares to a lifetime of loss that Nigella has been living with for some time. Imagine your husband, sister and mother all pass away in a space of sixteen years and tell me you wouldn't consider a release, a confidence boost, a relaxant... For some it's paintball, other's it's a joint. The point is you try these things and find out then you eventually feel stable enough to continue without them. She is by no means a full scale addict, although if she was the public should treat it as any other illness and NOT sling mud at her for what is a medical condition. Thankfully she is neither partying into the small hours in a coke induced haze. Not is she shooting up in the toilets of TV show The Taste, and her excessive appetite is down to greed not the munchies. Give the girl a break. I don't really think Saatchi's hypothetical tiff with Emin or even latest bit of tottie Trinny Woodall can be identically scaled by the tragedy in Nigella Lawson's life. By no means am I blaming her decision to take drugs occasionally on her past but I am saying it's understandable, we don't know, and more importantly it is none of our business. She's admitted it, she's explained it, which is actually more than I think she should have done, an she's apologised. As long as she is happy and healthy I, as a fan, am very happy to move on. So shall we? 

Also the newspapers that have reported the drug issue, wrote Columns relating it to the photographs taken earlier in the year where Saatchi was seen with his hands on his ex wife, from the angle of being allowed to rag her about a bit because she's a raging addict smack head, which is an attitude all too often reflected in society. I'm sure none of this was intentional, no press baron, not even Rupert Murdoch would acutely condone  violence to women but the views expressed in society still side with the power figure in most situations, usually the male. This is blatantly apparent in recent statistics where rape prosecutions stand at an all time high, yet still unacceptable 63% and domestic violence convictions at 74%. The society dynamics kind of came across in this one story where a powerful woman like Nigella Lawson was still essentially attacked by the press because she has a little black mark against her name and it is therefore seen as acceptable for what was seen in the photographs to occur. 

Hopkins seems to be this beacon of feminist propaganda, all powerful woman, working mother, successful tv personality and yet she's all too quick to pull down other women, other feminist ideals such as Nigella. She makes personal digs about her physique and furthermore claims Nigella goes out of her way to make other women feel inadequate, which although would be the easiest method of advertising, is not the case at all. You can watch any interview and see that Nigella is quite obviously a cook because it's what she's passionate about, it's just incidental that she can make money out of it. It's also painfully apparent that Nigella is not at all a domestic goddess and it is all very ironic. The entire thing is fun, family orientated and fascinating to the outside world who see this posh bird bake then stuff her face. It has very little to do with making women feel inadequate with their existence and being able to rectify this with Nigella's latest book. It's honest. And Hopkins seems to miss this honesty and fun factor, maybe because she's jealous or lacking in confidence, which is sad to see in someone that could potentially be a very nice, articulate lady. 

Hopkins may well be enjoying Nigella's fall from grace as it means her husband no longer lusts after her which I'm sure Nigella is gutted about as it was the primary goal she set out to achieve *rolls eyes* yet Hopkins seems to have fallen further and further into the inferno herself recently with an 80,000 signature strong petition to remove her from out screens for the foreseeable. Nigella's little tumble isn't looking all that tragic now is it...