Britain's favourite rent-a-gob, Jeremy Clarkson, got himself into hot water this week by declaring on national TV that public sector strikers "should be shot". Then to emphasise the point he reiterated that they should be "executed in front of their families". The public sector unions were incensed and threatened legal action. Clarkson, to his credit, realised the offence he had caused and offered an apology, which the main union involved, Unison, appears to have accepted.
These days, such a spat would be inconceivable without an accompanying battle of words on Twitter. Sure enough, Clarkson was a trending topic there throughout Thursday. By my entirely unbiased reckoning, the "Clarkson is a thoughtless oaf" tweets marginally outnumbered the "don't you lefties got no sense of humour" postings.
One person who threw in his two cents' worth was the only man in the UK who may be more widely disliked than Clarkson: the TV "personality" Piers Morgan. Piers, whose tweets always seem to suggest that he is under the profound delusion that people actually like him, tweeted something to this effect: "Leave Clarkson to me. I owe him a slap".
Well! There's a fight I'd certainly pay to watch, while hoping for the same outcome as you'd want in a battle between Iran and North Korea: "Please, God, can't they both lose?"
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