Katie Hopkins, who once compared migrants to cockroaches and suggested gunships should be used to stop people crossing the Mediterranean, has been signed up by far-right Canadian website The Rebel Media.
The former Sun and Mail Online columnist will be joining the likes of English Defence League founder and ex-leader Tommy Robinson, and will be writing a regular column at her new site HopkinsWorld – where she will also post video commentaries and file ‘exclusive investigative reports’ from around the globe.
“The aim of Hopkins World is to tell the stories not being told. And to help your voice be heard at a time when too many of us feel the list of things we can’t say is longer than the list of things we can,” Hopkins writes in her first column.
“When so many platforms are under the control of the Saudis, tied to fickle commercial advertisers or beholden to special interests and religious lobbyists, it is a real thrill to find a place for us to speak without censorship.”
Hopkins goes on to say: “If you hear yourself saying: “I’m not supposed to say this, but…” then I am here to reassure you that you are. Your views matter. You matter.
“With this platform provided by Rebel Media, and the kind support of my sponsors, subscribers, and adversaries, we will be heard.”
Hopkins first rose to fame after appearing on UK TV show The Apprentice in 2006, before becoming “Britain’s most controversial columnist” for The Sun in 2013, which she later left for the Mail Online in 2015.
Over the next two years, until her final column in October 2017, Hopkins landed herself and Mail Online in a number of costly libel cases, ultimately resulting in the ‘mutually agreed’ termination of her contract after Mail Online had to fork out substantial damages and legal costs to a teacher who Hopkins had made false claims about.
In April 2016 she joined radio station LBC but was sacked with immediate effect in May 2017 after she called for a “final solution” following the Manchester Arena terrorist attack.
