
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF KATIE HOPKINS
by Kenan Malik
This essay was the main part of my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on the row over the BBC’s broadcast of Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of blood speech’). It was published in the Observer, 15 April 2018, under the headline ‘Why provocateur Katie Hopkins is the perfect symbol for our tribal age’. I have not seen the play. But I am going to write about it. Which seems an apt metaphor for the current state of […]
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