I dunno Ian.

I don't watch the guy's programme regularly, but I happened upon it onetime.

He had Jonathan Porrit, the Head of greenpeace on, and he proceded to rip the piss out of him (really ridicule the Green point of view) in front of a jeering studio audience. I've never been anything but lukewarm of Green matters, but I felt a terrible line had been crossed. It made me feel very uneasy.

The thing they said about Speight was that he took official Conservative Pary policy and put it into the mouths of an idiot.

I feel Clarkson gives voice to to right wing scepticism, and puts the rhetoric into the mouths of the unthinking and anti-intellectual. The lad culture personified.