The following article will be the last time I mention Katie Hopkins in any capacity, and so I will keep this short.
However, I must begin with my admission: I too used to binge on viewing Katie Hopkins as she appeared on multiple media outlets, descending on This Morning, The Daily Mail and even The Independent. My moral outrage would subsequently balloon to an all time high, and I would be left bloated with indignation.
But no more! I am taking the Hopkins diet. I shall henceforth remove her from my media consumption: I will not read indignant articles of faux outrage about her most recent rantings and ravings nor engage with exasperated peers on the subject.
It is clear that I am not alone in my desire to cut back on my Hopkins heavy diet: a new change.org petition calling on The Sun to sack her as one of its columnists gained more than 270,000 signatures in under three days. More recently, Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights has weighed in with his opinion after Hopkins’ recent comments on immigration, declaring that “the editors took an editorial decision to publish this article, and – if it is found in breach of the law – should be held responsible along with the author.”
Yet, this Hopkins detox which would temporarily silence her voice is not necessarily the answer: we cannot realistically ban her forevermore from every media outlet, including her infamous twitter account (with 557,000 followers), without encroaching on freedom of speech and thus encouraging further outcry. Indeed, I am not suggesting that we should turn a blind eye to every individual who feels the need to share hateful and obnoxious opinions with the world. However, in Hopkins’ case, she feeds off public reaction, which in turn fuels her next outlandish statement.
The solution is not to ban her column from The Sun but to abstain from purchasing The Sun when her column lurks inside. Hopkins only rose to fame through Alan Sugar’s vanity project of a television show, The Apprentice, in 2006.
She came fourth and pulled out in what appeared to be more of a publicity stunt than concern about childcare. She used this new-found platform to express her vile opinions and fuel the public backlash over her ill-informed comments against, well, almost everyone. Indeed, it was only a few weeks ago that it was rumoured that Hopkins was in negotiations with digital channel TLC for her own talk show. However, outlets such as the Huffington Post have now reported that the show is struggling to find any celebrities willing to participate in her chat show, a move that I would encourage others to follow.
Hopkins remains in the public eye (and viewed as a lucrative source by media outlets) only as a result of the public’s engagement with her comments our 
reactions, and so for every individual who cuts her out she loses a little bit of her influence and notoriety: put simply the more that we gripe about her the more momentum her war of attrition on our humanity gains. It is for this reason that I cut out this cumbersome weight from my daily intake.
Thus, I vow that from this point onwards the words ‘Katie Hopkins’ shall never more pass from my mouth, and I urge you to do the same.
There, I’m feeling better already.