Conversely, the chattering classes love to pick on Clarkson - the hand wringing over eeny-meeny-miny-mo was absurd in the extreme. Forty years ago every child was using the "N word" not least because most of them had to learn at least a little Latin and therefore felt extra naughty. Fast forward to the present when a TV preventer in his middle age only just suppresses the childhood reflex and you think - ye Gods, is this what we have come to?
When that's what you have to complain about, you have nothing to complain about.
So Clarkson gets my support this time - just because having your car smashed up is never fun and whilst he may be a buffoon he's not a nasty one.
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