Jeremy's Latest Sun Column

[nobody]

Thanks.

[vanderdb9]

19.09.2009

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[chariset]

Ah, that's typical Jezza. Self-important, smugly amused, but at the same time clearly itching for a real fight

[lindenchase]

Jezza still writes his column for the Sun, doesn't he? I hope that with all that's going on at News International, he will reconsider.

Considering he's a patron for Help for Heroes, knowing that phones of the families of soldiers killed were hacked.... I can't imaginge he wants to continue writing for what's basically the same newspaper published on another day.

[amie8]

Jul 8, 2011 11:09:43 GMT lindenchase said:

Jezza still writes his column for the Sun, doesn't he? I hope that with all that's going on at News International, he will reconsider.

Considering he's a patron for Help for Heroes, knowing that phones of the families of soldiers killed were hacked.... I can't imaginge he wants to continue writing for what's basically the same newspaper published on another day.

Bit of a dilemma for JC. He's also friends with Rebekah Brooks, and of course he writes for two News International titles

[lindenchase]

Jul 8, 2011 11:40:37 GMT amie8 said:

Bit of a dilemma for JC. He's also friends with Rebekah Brooks (...)

Oh dear, that's new to me and Jezza doesn't exactly go up in estimations by that.

[Wyvern]

I don't think we can blame anyone for being friends with someone in their own social circle - Ms Brooks, like the Clarksons, is part of the 'Chipping Norton set'. As for the H4H issue, it is difficult to a degree, but the Sun is the charity's campaign partner and I believe they're the title sponsor of the Millies. Then again, both the Sun and the Times are editorially separate from the NotW (though I suspect when the Sunday Sun launches a lot of the old NotW staff will be there), and according to what's in the public domain as of now, it appears that in any case the events at NotW happened about 3 years before H4H was founded. Couple that with the Sun being the paper with the largest circulation in Britain and it makes it even harder.

But I think it's perhaps a bit unfair to expect someone to leave their job because something awful happened in a different branch of the same organisation - after all, people don't generally demand columnists at the Sunday Express resign becase the Daily Star did something improper (they'd have no staff left if that was the case).

[Vivienne]

Looks like the sh&t is going hit the fan again. The Sun column is about train suicides and mentions pieces, etc. He's on a roll.

[amie8]

Dec 3, 2011 2:37:54 GMT Vivienne said:

Looks like the sh&t is going hit the fan again. The Sun column is about train suicides and mentions pieces, etc. He's on a roll.

It has....

[britta1988]

Long-time lurker, first time poster.
Anyone have a link to the Sun article? I'm a lowly American, so I cannot find it.

[Vivienne]

You can't get it on line, although I think you used to be able to. Where are you from. Since there are so many California girls it would be nice to have someone from Idaho. We have several states represented, I'm from NM.

[britta1988]

I'm in Ohio right now for grad school, but I mostly live in Western Pennsylvania.

[Vivienne]

Are you in Akron? Some of us have Ohio connections and one who lives there. I think there are 2 Pennsylvanians.

[dit]

I can't track down the actual article, but this seems to carry the salient points


news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16122942

[Vivienne]

Somebody tweeted that Jeremy had been fired from the Sun. Does anybody have any info? I know I can't get his Sun columns on line.

[Wyvern]

I'd be quite surprised at that, given that Jeremy's Sun columns tend to be pretty much in keeping with the style of the rest of the paper. However, I wouldn't be surprised if 'Jeremy Clarkson Is Away' - he often takes a week or two off when his schedule is really busy. Having said that, I would also not be surprised if he chose to concentrate on his Times column, but given that they're both News International titles, it would be difficult for him to be removed from one organisation without the other - and given the way the British press can't get enough of yelling at Clarkson, it would be all over the internet if it had happened and was made public... so be patient; if anything like that has happened, it won't be quiet for long.

[laurrra]

Dec 10, 2011 15:29:14 GMT Vivienne said:

Somebody tweeted that Jeremy had been fired from the Sun. Does anybody have any info? I know I can't get his Sun columns on line.

Richard Bacon was in charge of Jeremy's page today, as he was away. He actually wrote that because of Jeremy's actions of late he had been fired...then right at the end of the column he states that Jeremy had indeed, NOT been fired.
Funny how news travels ;D

[amie8]

I never read The Sun, but funnily enough I did read RB's column while waiting for my Chinese takeaway. I'm not surprised the rumour has got out, because you do have to plough through quite a bit of stuff to get to the disclaimer at the end. I jumped straight to it because, a) I couldn't be bothered to read a page of Richard Bacon and b) my noodles were ready.

[Vivienne]

Has anybody read Jeremy's column today. Evidently he mentions that when he is gone Piers Morgan and other will be happy.

[Vivienne]

Apparently Jeremy has said something about a 10 year old child in his Sun column. I wish we could see them on line. Anybody seen it yet?

[laurrra]

He made a comment about a ten year old boy who was forced to live in a coal shed for a year by his mother. Jeremy said that because he's from Yorkshire he used to live in a cardboard box in the middle of the road and that his dad would dance on his grave, which was obviously worse than living in coal shed.
No doubt someone from Yorkshire will complain

[Vivienne]

Did he say anything about the Chinese?

[rx7]

Sounds like he's trying to do the Monty Python's 4 Yorkshiremen sketch.

[laurrra]

He was talking about synchronised swimming and said it was Chinese women with hats on swimming upside down
They really should put his column online?!

[Vivienne]

I gather they used to. I actually got to read a couple. Thanks.

[Vivienne]

All right I am officially obscene. I will try to up my level of innuendo.

[ladyblue]

I've been a way for a while, just lurking, but is is possible to anyone to possible scan Jeremy's column, I live in the US and can't read his articles otherwise?

Thanks

[RedMoon11]

DIY detectives: It’s time to stop copping out

By Jeremy Clarkson
Published 8th September 2014

On the beat… This could be YOU

SO, the police announced this week that the public should act as do-it-yourself detectives and try to solve crimes themselves.

Right, I see. And how is that going to pan out, I wonder? Because let’s just say you manage to find some CCTV footage which shows the criminal breaking into your car, and let’s just say that after you’ve shown the footage to various neighbours, one says: “Oh yes, I know him. It’s Big John from No 34 Humberton Way”. Then what? You go round to see Big John. You ask him to return what is rightfully yours. He punches you in the mouth.

Your jaw breaks and all your teeth fall out.

Or you punch him, then the police come and arrest you for grievous bodily harm.

You have to go to prison. Your children are taken into care. And become glue sniffers.

It’s probably best, then, that the police do the investigating themselves.

www.sunmotors.co.uk/news/diy-detectives-its-time-to-stop-copping-out/

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Jeremy Clarkson: No kids, traffic or OAPs… so why can’t I speed?

By Jeremy Clarkson
Published 15th September 2014

 
War on the motorist … traffic police crack down on speeding drivers

I FINISHED some filming in the glorious Yorkshire town of Whitby and with the sun sinking into a crystal-clear moorland backdrop, set off on a 260-mile journey to London.

I was in a brand new BMW M3. The rush hour was over. The weather was perfect and Supertramp was on the stereo. It should have been a great drive. But it wasn’t…

When the Tories came to power, they abolished the idiotic M4 bus lane, talked of higher speed limits on the motorways and promised to end New Labour’s mealy mouthed war on the motorist. Well, on my trip from Whitby to London, it certainly didn’t feel that way.

First of all, on the magnificent road over Fylingdales Moor, I spotted a civil servant, in a van, with a camera, trying to catch people speeding.

Why? It was bone dry and traffic was light. There were no pedestrians up there and no schools or old people’s homes.

All you could hit was a sheep. And they’re all going to be turned into jumpers and chops anyway. I was still lightly fuming as I reached the M1 roadworks which stretch all the way from Sheffield to the turn-off for Derby.

They are patrolled by all-seeing average speed cameras, which mean you are forced to drive for mile after interminable mile at 50mph.

It was late. There were no workmen on site. Three lanes were fully open.

Barriers were in place. Everyone was going in the same direction. So why in the name of all that’s holy are we forced to drive at a speed Victorians would call “a bit pedestrian”?

Presumably, somewhere in the land, there is a man who made this decision and I would like to meet him so that I could stick some cocktail sticks into his eyes.


Health and safety obsessed … 40mph motorway speed limits

If he really thinks 50 is the correct speed then he should be prepared to put his name, address and mobile number on the overhead gantries so those who disagree can get in touch.

Have you ever been so angry you can actually feel your brain starting to get hot? Well, that’s how I felt as I trundled along, knowing the man responsible for my misery was at home with his adenoids and sexless wife, eating his bloody supper.

And it gets worse because when the roadworks finally ended, I found myself on a stretch where there are speed-camera gantries every few hundred yards, to catch those who are desperate to make up for lost time.

Then, just a few miles later, I was back in a 50 zone. Why? Because for 23 miles, there were cones on the hard shoulder. Yup, everyone was forced to drive at Ford Anglia speeds for half a bleeding hour. In case they hit a cone.

It’s going to get worse. The Tories said when they took office they would raise the motorway speed limit to 80. Now they are saying that in many places it will be reduced to 60. Which means in roadworks you’ll be forced to do 40.
In London, the Mayor’s announced that, soon, people will be asked to pay a tax for every mile they drive.

And even on some major routes in the capital, there are now 20mph zones. “Slower Speeds. Safer Roads” say the signs.

This is just plain wrong. If you are forced to drive at less than 20, you must constantly watch the speedo, not looking where you’re going.

The Government may have changed, Mr Brown is now Mr Cameron, but the people advising it are still the same blinkered, health-and- safety-obsessed, clean-air enthusiasts.

They tell their political masters there are still too many accidents and too many particulates in the air.

And instead of telling them to go and sit on a nut cutlet, the political masters say, “Oh well, we must do something about that.”

They think that it will make no difference because they always reckon “motorists” are some kind of deranged minority group. We are not.

A motorist is someone with a driving licence. Which is pretty much every single adult in the country.

And when I say “adult”, what I really mean is “voter”.

So, Mr Cameron, remember that, and if you want to keep your job, make sure that at night those stupid speed cameras are turned off.

www.sunmotors.co.uk/news/no-kids-traffic-or-oaps-so-why-cant-i-speed/

Jeremy Clarkson @jeremyclarkson 15 Sep 2014
Choices choices

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It’s roof justice

By Jeremy Clarkson
Published 16th September 2014


Necessary? … roof cut away to free driver

ONE of Prince Harry’s motorcycle cops has been – let’s use police speak – involved in a road traffic collision with a Toyota Prius.

Damage to the car was as you might imagine not that disastrous but the emergency services still cut its roof off to free the driver.

Why didn’t they just open the door?

Or is this a new type of punishment? You crash into a policeman. We cut your car in half.

www.sunmotors.co.uk/news/its-roof-justice/

www.sunmotors.co.uk/contributors/jeremy-clarkson/

[RedMoon11]

A bit of banter four Rio
By Jeremy Clarkson
Published 22nd September 2014

Banter… I’ve been reading Rio’s book extracts in The Sun

I HAVE been enjoying The Sun’s serialisation of Rio Ferdinand’s insight into what goes on behind football’s normally closed doors.

He told us this week that whenever it looked like rain, he and his Man Utd team-mates would point at Wayne Rooney and say: “What’s going to happen with his hair? It’s going to be everywhere.”

They also used to laugh at the tightness of Cristiano Ronaldo’s trousers. “We can see the veins in your b******s,” they’d say.

As comedy goes it’s not quite in the same league as Monty Python’s cheese shop. But I find it all extremely heartening.

We keep being told these days that we cannot make fun of anyone.

Fat people. Gingers. Even the French. Any form of teasing is called bullying and it’s frowned upon.

Rio disagrees. He says banter is part and parcel of changing room life and that teasing toughened up younger players and helped them keep their feet on the ground.

I agree with him completely. So let me finish by saying this: Rio, mate, just how bad does a team need to be before it can be beaten 4-0 by Manchester United?

www.sunmotors.co.uk/news/a-bit-of-banter-four-rio/

[RedMoon11]

Jeremy Clarkson: I may be a BE11END but I’m not suicidal

Top Gear host on Argentina nightmare

By Jeremy Clarkson

Published 20th October 2014


Controversy … Top Gear in Argentina

A COUPLE of weekends ago, the entire Top Gear film crew was hounded out of Argentina’s troubled southern-most province by a stone-throwing mob of twenty-something “war veterans”.

And of course, back at home, everyone is saying: “Well, you asked for it.”

This is because I had been driving a Porsche 928 with the number plate H982 FKL.

This was seen as a reference to the 1982 Falklands War and, given Top Gear’s reputation for sparking fury, must have been chosen deliberately.

Some of me wishes it had been. It would have been quite sly.


Fury … Porsche 928 with H982 FKL numberplate

In fact, it wasn’t. I asked the office to find me a Porsche 928 for the film and at the time, only two were available at the right price.

One was black and one was grey.

I chose the grey one because black doesn’t work on television.

That’s not a racist thing by the way. Camera guys just hate it. So the grey car was checked over by our tame mechanics then bought and shipped to South America. I didn’t even see it until I arrived in Argentina.

And did I notice the plate? Did anyone? Nope, not until three days later by which time we were filming in Chile.

Our producer immediately contacted the local government in southern Argentina to ask if it would be a problem when we arrived, two weeks later, in Ushuaia, the city from which the doomed warship Belgrano sailed.

They said yes and that we should change it before entering the city.

This, however, was a problem. If you’d been watching a show featuring a car with the registration plate H982 FKL, you’d wonder why in the final scenes that number had suddenly changed. We therefore hatched a cunning plan.


Attacked … mobs of “war veterans” threw bricks at Top Gear hosts

We had some joke plates made up in England — BE11 END they said — and had them shipped out so that on the night we arrived in Ushuaia, James May and Richard Hammond could be filmed fitting them to the Porsche. And then I’d be driving around in a car that made me look idiotic.

Clever eh?

Well yes, but it all went wrong. Because before we had a chance to film the scene, the mood turned very ugly indeed.

Hurriedly, we removed the offending H982 FKL plates and found an old personal plate underneath. Hoping that would be enough, we ploughed on.

But it wasn’t.

The mob attacked. Video footage showed that most didn’t even know why. We were British, and down there that’s enough of a reason to have your head brutally stoved in with a pickaxe handle.

So in a hailstorm of flying bricks, the cars were abandoned.

And we fled.


Abandoned … cars left in Argentina

Now, a Labour MP is calling for me to be eaten. Damon Albarn out of Blur, meanwhile, has called me a f****** a***hole.

And one newspaper has decided there is a BBC cover-up to protect me from being sacked.

Really? I don’t think it’s a secret that BBC boss Danny Cohen and I do not get on.

And if he thought for one moment that I was in some way responsible for the whole sorry affair, I’d be out on my ear.

The thing is though, he’s done all the digging. Checked all the dates. Found out who bought the car and why. And he knows that for once Top Gear has done nothing wrong.

You? Ah well, the programme will be aired over Christmas. You can judge for yourselves then.


www.sunmotors.co.uk/news/clarkson-i-may-be-a-be11end-but-im-not-suicidal/