Jeremy Clarkson Is Unwell

Obsession can eat away at the soul. When coupled with hatred, jealousy and creepy misogyny, and actively encouraged by our free and fearless press, it may give its author a feeling of wellbeing, invincibility even, but the fact remains that if someone outside the public eye were airing such views, the cops would be visiting them to suggest they pursue other interests.

I assembled what remained of my credibility, took careful aim ... and shat all over it

So who has been exhibiting all the above attributes? To no surprise at all, another of those who dispense punditry in the pages of the Super Soaraway Currant Bun, and to even less surprise, the target is the Duchess of Sussex. Step forward Jeremy Clarkson, sacked from the BBC for gross misconduct - violently assaulting a producer - with a side order of racist bigotry.

Jezza has used his latest Sun column to tell anyone not yet asleep that “WE all know in our heart of hearts that Harold Markle is a slightly dim but fun-loving chin who flew Apache helicopter gunships in Afghanistan and cavorted around Las Vegas hotel rooms with naked hookers. But then along came Meghan, who obviously used some vivid bedroom promises to turn him into a warrior of woke”. He means Harry. Whose name is not Harold.

Sadly, there is more. “And now it seems that she has her arm so far up his bottom, she can use her fingers to alter his facial expressions. I actually feel rather sorry for him because today he’s just a glove puppet with no more control over what he says or does than Basil Brush”. Laugh? I thought I’d never start. But then he goes full sick obsessive misogyny. And hatred.

“Meghan, though, is a different story. I hate her. Not like I hate Nicola Sturgeon or Rose West. I hate her on a cellular level”. In case you missed that, he says Megs is worse than a mass murderer. “At night, I’m unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her”.

Jeremy who?

Could it get worse? Don’t ask. “Everyone who’s my age thinks the same way”. They intercoursing well don’t. Worse still, that column was passed as fit to publish by a whole series of editors, and indeed would have been signed off by News UK’s lawyers. Worse than that, there is no comeback via press non-regulator IPSO. It’s an “opinion column”. FREEZE PEACH!

But that is not the whole story. Jezza’s rant was published after he had broken bread with the Queen Consort earlier in the week. We know this as the Mail’s Richard Eden, another of the bottom-feeding creeps whose sole status is their alleged Royal “expertise”, penned a gushing article on a lunch to which Camilla and a raft of C-Listers were invited last Wednesday.

“Camilla's VERY glamorous private party: Dame Judi Dench, Piers Morgan, Claudia Winkleman and Jeremy Clarkson join Queen Consort at star-studded Mayfair lunch as she proves Meghan isn't the only royal with pulling power” tells the headline, claiming an “exclusive”, perhaps because no other paper was bothered with a gathering of mainly minor Slebs. There was more.

“The glitzy event at the Michelin-starred restaurant, owned by Angela Hartnett, was hosted by Ewan Venters, the former head of royal grocer Fortnum & Mason … The event came just hours before Harry and Meghan's second instalment of their Netflix docu-series - which saw the Duchess of Sussex boast of a text from Beyoncé as the megastar offered her support”.

Look readers, it's trending!

And there on the same webpage is Mail Online listing Clarkson’s slice of creepy misogyny under “Trending”, with no critical comment. It’s what John le Carré’s fictional spymaster George Smiley might have termed “an unfortunate chain of events” - Jezza lunches with someone the Sussexes appear less than totally keen on on Wednesday, creepy column appears on Saturday.

Moreover, Clarkson and the Sun’s editorial staff have, by allowing this vile screed to see the light of day, underscored everything that Megs has said about the hatred emanating from our free and fearless press. Anyone who doubted the honesty and accuracy of her words will have been put straight by Jezza and his editors. The opposition has come running to her rescue.

Now watch to see who fails to condemn that column. That will prove yet more informative as to who is cool with creepy, obsessive misogyny. Sad but true.

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