Where would we be without Jeremy Clarkson? The motor-mouth petrol-head is the unlikely saviour of Twitter addicts this Christmas, giving ever-online politicos the change to proclaim their utter disgust at his now-removed Sun column about Meghan Markle. Clarkson has now apologised for saying how he’d like to see the Duchess of Sussex being paraded through the streets and compared her to serial killer Rose West. Even Clarkson’s daughter denounced him.
It’s not an analogy that first came to mind for Steerpike, but it’s a free country – isn’t it? Unfortunately we saw something else in the reaction to Clarkson: a desire to jail him, or at very least invent a crime to find him guilty of. Below are four of the more eye-catching reactions to his column: Mr S leaves his readers to judge whether they are proportionate or not…
Chris Packham
The eco-activist has called for Clarkson to be jailed for his words, describing it as a ‘hate crime, pure and simple.’
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