Putting the boot in

Johann Hari puts the boot in to Jeremy Clarkson. Completely over the top, but no more so than Clarkson himself. (Link from Harry's Place, who has more to say on the subject)

I have never engaged with Jeremy Clarkson's arguments in my columns, because he doesn�t have any. I may as well engage with one of the Tweenies. He is merely the court jester for the Petrolhead death-cult, a far-right jokesmith whose erotic obsession with inanimate metal objects may well stem from the fact that - as Piers Morgan alleges in his diaries - he once confessed to being "not physically capable" of sexual intercourse. (Clarkson of course denies this, but with trousers that tight, who would be surprised?). A man whose response to global warming is to deny its existence and brag that he leaves his patio-heater on 24 hours a day "just to wind up Greenpeace" is not a person to argue with; he�s a person to ignore. But as he has learned in the past week, Clarkson�s unserious statements can have very serious consequences.

I have to confess that my first thought when I heard about Richard Hammond's rocket crash was "Why couldn't it have been Clarkson?". Which probably means I'm not a very nice person.