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Showing posts with label Jeremy Clarkson. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Jeremy Clarkson. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Paddington Bear: Slapstick, boosting Jeremy Clarkson's career and becoming our grim reaper

Paddington Bear is a couple of years older than me, so I had one of the books about him when I was a little boy. I quite liked the Paddingt...

Tuesday, May 06, 2025

The Family Farm Tax and VAT on school fees are here to stay

The National Farmers' Union has decided to wind down its campaign against the imposition of inheritance tax (IHT) on farmland, reports B...

Friday, November 22, 2024

The importance of disliking Jeremy Clarkson for the right reason

Jeremy Clarkson believes strikers should be shot in front of their families. Or so you will believe if you've been reading Twitter this ...

Sunday, December 15, 2019

GUEST POST Why am I a Liberal Democrat?

Simon Beard explains, with help from Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Clarkson. It seems to me that Liberals have a peculiar ob...

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Let's leave "gammon" off the menu

Let's say we get our way and there is a second referendum on Brexit. Could we win it? Maybe not, because so far we do not appear t...

Thursday, March 29, 2018

But could Remain win a second referendum?

We Remainers hope for a second referendum on British membership of the European Union. Will we get one? I doubt it. But there is a...

Thursday, January 18, 2018

Jeremy Clarkson, Mitch Mitchell and Jennings

You may know the radio quiz The Unbelievable Truth, in which the panelists try to smuggle facts past their fellow contestants in the middle ...

Monday, November 28, 2016

No, Top Gear did not win the referendum for Leave

Embed from Getty Images The New European has an article arguing that Top Gear paved the way for Brexit. I've not read it - ...

Thursday, April 28, 2016

The best case for Remain has been made by... Jeremy Clarkson

Embed from Getty Images Here are some paragraphs from the best case I have seen for Britain's continued membership of the Euro...

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Six of the Best 498

Suddenly, Britain is disappearing from the world stage, says Anne Applebaum . Stephen Glenn looks at the long career of James Molyneaux...

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Nigel Farage to take on Nick Clegg in Sheffield Hallam?

There is a rumour going round cyberspace this evening that Nigel Farage is planning to stand against Nick Clegg at the next general election...

Saturday, December 03, 2011

There is nothing "Lefty" about Jimmy Carr

Discussing the furore over Jeremy Clarkson's appearance on The One Show, Damian Thompson complains of double standards. Jimmy Carr mak...

Thursday, December 01, 2011

In defence of Jeremy Clarkson

I find Top Gear irritating and the way it is relentlessly promoted by the BBC doubly so. I don't share Jeremy Clarkson's politics, ...

Friday, March 11, 2011

Calder on Air: Jamie's Dream School

My column from today's Liberal Democrat News . This was going to be the last word on modern education - and Jamie Oliver's project...

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Top Gear is the new Last of the Summer Wine

I have been known to complain about the BBC's habit of describing the ageing presenters of Top Gear as "boys". The week after...

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Top Gear presenters are not boys

This time last year I complained that the BBC kept calling the presenters of Top Gear "boys". In this year's the trailer they...

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Britblog Roundup 203: Live from my new laptop

My old machine expired over the Christmas holiday, but I have a new one working in time to present the first Britblog Roundup of the new yea...

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Jeremy Clarkson to stand against Nick Clegg?

The Pink News conference blog reports an intriguing rumour circulating at the Tory Conference in Birmingham: a rumour was running ... round...

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Will the BBC please stop calling the "Top Gear" presenters "boys"?

Jeremy Clarkson, the little one and the other one are not boys. They are men. This matters . Thank you. I feel better for that.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Dave Hill on the BBC

Quite : The BBC makes heroes out of big babies like Jeremy Clarkson, bigheads like Jonathan Ross and big bullies like Chris Moyles - Grown M...

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