Clarkson: Loud Mouthed and Spineless
By Graham Davies

He’s rich, he fronts BBC2’s most-watched TV show, and the more he winds people up, the richer and the more watched he becomes. This is what’s so irritating about presenter Jeremy Clarkson.

Whilst it’s clear to everyone that he’s a boorish, opinionated bigot with all the intellectual rigour and insight of a cheese sandwich (he even admits to this himself), it’s these very characteristics which make him so marketable.

Describing Gordon Brown as a “one-eyed Scottish idiot” was strictly par for the Clarkson course. We shouldn’t have expected anything else. So the furore in the papers is just space-filling PR for (as Clarkson would doubtless have it) the thick lanky fat-headed moron’s career.

It’s not often you have a chance to congratulate politicians, but Number 10’s response to Clarkson was a masterpiece. Clarkson, they said “is entitled to his own interpretation of the economic circumstances”. So smoothly cutting.

Now I hear that Clarkson has apologised. He said "in the heat of the moment I made a remark about the Prime Minister's personal appearance for which, upon reflection, I apologise."

Now this REALLY pisses me off. Clarkson - so maverick, so hard-core, and such a devil-may-care bad boy presenter, won’t stand by his own off-the-cuff unfunny bullshit, and instead opts (almost immediately) to give a pathetic, cringeing, wimpy apology.

As Jeremy would no doubt put it, the man’s just a big fat nancy boy.