Why is Jeremy Clarkson still on TV?

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He comes across as an anti-government, right-wing, petrolhead blowhard, but Clarkson’s Farm reveals the controversy-prone journalist and presenter has a more complicated X-factor.

Drought has rendered his land hard and dry. His potatoes have shrivelled and there’s no point in even trying to plant oilseed. The council has shut down the restaurant he opened on the farm in season two, and he’s been forced to sell most of his herd of cattle, including his beloved favourite, Pepper. The future for the farm looks grim.Yet one feels that things will all work out OK somehow. Partly this is because it’s TV, and even on a reality series it’s hard to believe in unhappy endings.

To start with, his TV career is quite an unlikely one: he began as a Paddington Bear toy salesman, moved into journalism and somehow landed a gig onless through any motoring expertise than through a bull-headed inclination to say whatever the hell he liked and not care who he pissed off. He then parlayed his status as a car-show presenter into a role bestriding the British media landscape like a provocative right-wing colossus, hurling problematic opinions left, right and centre.

Unlike many conservative luminaries ... Clarkson has retained his sense of humour rather than shrinking into bitterness. It’s a valuable quality in any entertainer, and one that Clarkson has in greater quantity than most: the insight to understand your own weaknesses and inherent absurdities, and to retain a healthy sense of them even while you’re spouting off about everything that bugs you in the modern world.especially, is humanity.

 

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