The shelves of WH Smith at Kings Cross supporting a row of books by Jeremy Clarkson.
Jeremy Clarkson is a larger than life media personality, incredibly popular, enormously influential. You cannot understand twenty-first century British popular culture without reference to Jeremy Clarkson. He bestrides television and newspapers like a cultural colossus (the analogy is deliberate - in many ways he is a modern equivalent to Cecil Rhodes in bombastic certainty and will to dominate).
The laws of physics tell us that every action has a reaction. Only an insipid, politically-correct, furtively hypocritical society could produce Jeremy Clarkson. Not that I would call him a reactionary (I wouldn’t dare).
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