Help: A Survival Guide For Life

Product Information

I think I am,” she says. “It’s impulse stuff that usually gets me into trouble. I speak what I think when I think it. At 17 I went to Australia for a year.” (She travelled there on a grant provided by the Bideford Bridge Rotary Club. They called it an “ambassadorship”.) “I stole people’s husbands. I suppose you could argue that isn’t a very thoughtful approach to life, is it?”

I wonder if you wrote that way about migrants because you literally don’t feel as much empathy as other people do,” I say.Our booking of Katie Hopkins has proven to be controversial. Some people have expressed concern dismay and outrage, that we, as an independent theatre, have chosen to host such a performance. She suddenly sounds enthused by the thought that she could be so inspirational. It’s as if she’s forgotten that the emotions that were galvanised were because everyone despised her for being so glib. “Maybe you’ll start to get a bit more liberal,” I say. Hopkins is waiting for me in the lobby. I half expect her to be in disguise, such is the extent of the hate towards her, but she’s just sitting there, on her own. She’s wearing a bright pink dress – with her manicured hair she looks very Tory grande-dame – but otherwise is just as personable as our conversations on Skype. It’s easy to forget that she’s the person who writes the terrible things. It comes after Rashford wrote an open letter to MPs on Monday calling for the Government to reverse the decision not to extend the meal scheme. Early behaviour problems?” I ask. “Were you really difficult around the age of 10 or 12 – to the extent that you could have got into trouble with the authorities?”

We are proud that we are able to subsidise amateur and community theatre by the amount of professional shows we run to allow us to do this, so diversity in acts is essential. A spokesperson for the venue said: “We are a receiving house theatre, and we are wholly self-funding charity. As such we must put on a wide variety of shows that appeal to as wide a demographic as possible; this inevitably means that we will host some performances that some people take exception to.Early thoughts? Mainly that whatever stupid shit you’ve done on ketamine, at least you haven’t made a documentary about farm violence calling it white genocide in a manner absolutely guaranteed to make matters worse.