Oh no. Clarkson has decided to issue a lengthy and grovelling apology to the Woke Queen Meghan and her snivelling ‘spare’ sidekick, for the apparently heinous crime of a misjudged joke.
“I really am sorry,” says our farming friend. “All the way from the balls of my feet to the follicles on my head.”
He has done this either to try to keep his Amazon show, or because he genuinely means it. Both are bad.
The latter is more simple. He is making the classic mistake of apologising to merciless ideologues with no mechanism for forgiveness, as well as a baying mob who will only be excited by this next whiff of fresh blood.
This approach can never work, as was confirmed immediately by H & M’s infuriatingly pompous statement, by way of reply:
While a new public apology has been issued today by Mr. Clarkson, what remains to be addressed is his longstanding pattern of writing articles that spread hate rhetoric, dangerous conspiracy theories and misogyny.
Unless each of his other pieces were also written “in a hurry”, as he states, it is clear that this is not an isolated incident shared in haste, but rather a series of articles shared in hate.
In other words, Clarkson must capitulate fully to woke norms, where everything is misogyny and all political opponents are ‘hateful‘, yet when they destroy someone it is simply a case of ‘consequences’ and ‘accountability’.
Never mind Harry’s hate towards his ginger nemesis Rebekah Brooks, or the many other targets in his book, the sequel to which could easily be called Overshared in Hate.
So that was a massive fail from Jezza. But chances are he knew that and was apologising simply to appease Amazon, which is a more complicated proposition.
Why would Amazon want to lose someone who is, ostensibly at least, one of their most bankable stars? Some on the left claim that the sole aim of corporations is to make money, and that, for instance, the existence of so many woke films is simply because executives believe that is the content that will maximise profits.
It is an obviously flawed premise, since woke movies consistently tank at the box office. What seems more likely to me is that corporations are now just as interested in social engineering and control as they are in profit. Much like the idiot child Justin Trudeau, they look to China with admiration. Presumably, this is why Jeff Bezos bought the Washingon Post: influence is now a greater currency than the rapidly diminishing dollar.
Some will stick with the simple dollars-and-sense argument and say Amazon suspects it’ll lose more subscriptions by backing Clarkson over Meghan. I find that unlikely. The issue was essentially buried. The Clarkson fans – who probably hate Meghan on at least a cellular level, if not deeper – would have continued to watch his farm show. And Meghan fans will continue to use Amazon for whatever it is they buy (perhaps a copy of Machiavelli’s The Prince?).
No doubt there is pressure from the woke employees within the company to engage in these struggle sessions. Or maybe Bezos just wants to fit in at his dinner parties with the elites, enjoying his virtue points over a main course of synthetic meat and Adrenochrome.
The Telegraph, however, has come up with a more compelling argument on the financial side: apparently Clarkson’s numbers just aren’t cutting it on a global scale. According to this theory, the whole Meghan thing is just a convenient excuse for Amazon to send Clarkson to the knacker’s yard, while he can save face by claiming to be another victim of cancel culture. In our fallen world, this has a cynical ring of truth to it.
Then again, at the time of writing, ITV is now distancing itself from Clarkson too. Is Who Wants to be a Millionaire? also failing? Or is this a co-ordinated ‘Matrix attack’, like when Andrew Tate suddenly lost all his social media accounts in one day? At the rate this is escalating, I expect by the time of publishing Clarkson will be languishing in a Romanian jail under accusations of sex trafficking. I mean, who suddenly decides to run a ‘farm’ in middle-age with no prior experience? It all starts to make sense.
Whichever theory you go for, it all comes back to Meghan. Even if Amazon is just using her as the scapegoat, she is still suspiciously near the crime scene. Why did the furore die down, only to suddenly flare up again? This has Markle written all over it. Just as she got rid of Piers Morgan, she’s now taken another gammon scalp. Clarkson fantasised about her being paraded through the streets naked like Cersei, and now, as if to continue the Game of Thrones analogy that he failed to spell out for the slow kids, she will get her revenge by blowing up his career.
What is so disappointing is that Clarkson hasn’t even gone down fighting. By backing down from his slightly misjudged but clearly satirical column, he has taken a massive L. With the initial Twitter apology, the private Christmas apology, and the new, novella-length apology on Instagram, Clarkson is already three apologies in. Yet his Grand Apology Tour is, I suspect, only just beginning.
I for one hate it on a cellular level.
Stop Press: Allison Pearson in the Telegraph says she’d prefer a world full of Jeremy Clarksons than Meghan Markles.
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But Liz we need offshore wind farms like we need a hole in the head.
Speaking of which, I don’t know if they’re already doing something like this in the UK. I’m also wondering why they don’t do this on land instead, given that the bodies of the poor birds can at least be counted, and what arbitrary number of killed birds will they declare ‘acceptable’?
”Energy firm Vattenfall is going to place infrared cameras on one of its wind turbines in the North Sea to gauge how many birds are killed by the blades.
At the moment the decision to stop or slow turbines lies with the economic affairs ministry. It uses models which predict deaths at busy times of year, such as spring and autumn when millions of birds cross the North Sea on their migratory routes.
In 2023, North Sea turbines were halted three times to protect birds and some 50,000 are killed each year, experts have estimated.
The predictions do not give an accurate picture, Vattenfall said, because the dead birds fall into the sea and disappear in the current.
Some 16 infrared cameras will be placed on the turbine, which is part of an offshore wind farm some 18 kilometres from the coast near The Hague.”
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/04/vattenfall-to-put-cameras-on-wind-turbine-to-count-dead-birds/
Was that sliver of fantasy included to let it pass the Telegraph censors?
Truss may not be much good at politics but she is usually right on the substance of policy. Net Zero is economic lunacy. Most members of her rotten party are in thrall to authoritarian collectivism, however, and after fourteen disastrous years in government they deserve to be wiped out in the forthcoming election. Things need to get even worse before they get better.
And erecting a giant hamster wheel to power the UK will make it nirvana. If you didn’t realise it truss is a fool, the ppl in politics are very low quality, even the few who say the odd sensible thing.
If you reject sound advice, just because the source isn’t consistently reliable, we won’t get anything worthwhile from the political bubble, or the Legacy Media: though I usually can’t tell the difference between the two.
And if you reject newcomers, just because they haven’t done anything yet that is worthy of approval, because they haven’t been in office, we will be doomed to failure, and national destruction.
Don’t let Perfection be the enemy of Good.
I’ve posted about this before: the ridiculous lowering of the national speed limit here in the Netherlands, which came into force 4 years back. The speed limit that any normal, sane person ignores, especially if you regularly travel over the border to neighbouring Belgium or Germany, who don’t have such a nonsensical rule. Well lo and behold research has shown that it’s made bugger all meaningful difference. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the alleged pitiful 0.2% reduction in nitrogen could be explained by the significant increase in electric cars in the last few years, because they’re everywhere over here now;
”The PVV, VVD, NSC, and BBB are discussing whether the speed limits on Dutch highways can be increased back to 130 kilometers per hour, sources told the newspaper AD on Tuesday. The topic has been on the agenda for a few weeks, but the leak to the media now may be an attempt to distract from a looming impasse on the asylum and migration file, political reporters think.
Four years ago, the Rutte III Cabinet lowered the maximum speed limit on highways to 100 kilometers per hour between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. in an attempt to lower nitrogen emissions. But a recent study by Wim de Vries, a professor and nitrogen expert at Wageningen University, showed that the lower speed limit only reduced nitrogen emissions by at most 0.2 percent on paper.”
https://nltimes.nl/2024/04/16/parties-formation-talks-investigating-return-130-kmh-speed-limit
Net Zero is meant to replace existing infrastructure that works, with new infrastructure that is less efficient and using money that will be taken from the economy in taxes, and thus will reduce wealth creating economic activity.
To get less output for greater input, is the inverse of efficiency and economic growth.
While Truss might have been one of the least treacherous and incompetent of Johnson replacements ( others such as Braverman or Badenoch might have been better) , here I have to agree with her to some extent. Technically she is wrong on more offshore wind energy unless her recommendation for more Nuclear and shale gas derived generation is acted on. And even then, the regulatory process for the former seems designed to block implementation for around 2 decades. We have far in excess of the % wind renewable power for a stable grid. Tidal power would be a more revelant source for an island nation.
We are paying on average 2 1/4 times US electricty prices and 3 1/2 times S Korean prices ( Domestic and business average ). Yet the latter has limited and depleted gas field resources and imports most of its energy as Liquid Natural Gas. Which is carried at -159 degC, Liz not -180. Ludicrously we refuse to use our own onshore resources and there are those that believe USA sabotaged the Nordstream pipeline in order to provide a captive export market once most of the Gulf coast LNG import terminals had been converted to re-liquefy and export its own shale gas.
Tidal power has its own problems: peak power moves to different times every day, just look at the high tide times around Britain for the relevant information. And how does the power at 3am, in the Summer, get stored for use at 6pm in the Winter? And then each location has its ecological disaster waiting in the wings, whether it’s the silting up of the created reservoir, that will need power to be removed, to changes in the water table. And this is in addition to the disruption of shipping. And there are very few sites where it’s possible anyway.
The built in snag is the conflation of environmental management and “Climate Change” scaremongering. The established techniques for environment issues, especially in urban areas, are OK, but the ideas of manipulating the weather itself are not. Those that believe in “Net Zero” are skirting around this flawed concept of pretending that they are the same things, but they are not.
I have just read Toby’s article above this about the black, female version of Ranting – that’s Rayner by the way – the one who loves to use the principal weapon so beloved of her colleague Diane Abacus ie the Race Card ( never leave home without it) and there is no option to comment.
Mods???
I read it too and feel very sorry for the way Toby was treated by an MP with ‘previous’ form. The article was to defend Prof Cass who has been threatened and upset by some people who think it is acceptable to experiment on children with life changing consequences.
Look at what a collection of MP’s does to vast swathes of the population or even to individuals such as Mr Assange. Isn’t that why such people are in Parliament (but really shouldn’t be)?
Well I thought it disgusting that this woman gets away with resorting to smears and slander, not just once but on multiple counts, like she has some sort of vindictive agenda against Toby. All because she has nothing factual in her arsenal with which to attack him, she resorts to scraping the barrel using a pack of lies. To pot with all this ”disinformation”, it’s just blatant lies. Shame on this nasty, spiteful piece of work. And she should be shamed far and wide for her vile behaviour because it says a great deal about somebody’s character, let alone their professionalism, or lack thereof.
“there is no option to comment”
Thanks, I noticed that and wasn’t sure if I’d missed something.
It wasn’t like it was an article that required a comment on censorship.
Yeah, not sure if that’s a boob or deliberate. One can’t always be sure these days….
What you betting the Miserable Git Association now descend on me for commenting off-topic?
You’ll be safe as houses, as ever though.
“Diane Abacus”
Love it.
Like your vote she doesn’t count. Or in her case not particularly well.
Thanks
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/04/19/bird-flu-censorship-100-day-vaccines-7-predictions-for-the-next-pandemic/
Kit Knightly at Off-G discussing the why’s and wherefores of the next Scamdemic which he predicts for January 2025 and will probably be linked to bird ‘flu which will of course allow them to shut down farming.
“ is the rise of authoritarian regimes and the decline of democracy”
Does she include the West?
Yesterday on the radio I tuned in to BBC 4 ( sorry not got DAB ) there was an episode called Antisocial. They were discussing Highway Code, cyclists and car users. They had a real based guy on there ‘James’. not sure the surname. He was criticising the climate cult, their war on cars and Jeremy Vine. Enough to cause an Aneurysm in the BBC studios.
Blimey.
A hidden 5th columnist then? Brilliant!
I liked her from the first. Quirky? Yes. Naive? Yes.
Stitched up by the Bank of England and globalist cabal? Absolutely.
She’s got guts and is correct about a lot of issues. I disagree on Ukraine, but think she would have been the most conservative PM since Thatcher.
More power to her.
I was neither for nor against Liz Truss until the Davos Deviants got involved and clearly told the tory hierarchy to get her out at which point I was firmly a supporter. This was probably the most shameful act of political backstabbing that I have seen in my lifetime. Truss’s views on the economy were correct and an about turn on the fiscal madness was desperately necessary. However, according to the rules the tory hierarchy have been given this country must be driven to bankruptcy which was why The Hunt was forced on Truss. When this manoeuvre failed to get rid she was chased out. I suspect Liz Truss has no skeletons with which she can be blackmailed. I also expect she has some very dark secrets tucked away and which will be let loose if she is harmed.
At least she is giving some return fire. As the saying goes…Every little helps.
Truss was born into a Left Wing family and has traveled across the political spectrum to end up with a good smattering of Conservative Ideas, with most of the travelling being done while within a ‘Conservative Party’ government. It’s quite a feat, really!
It’s why she doesn’t have a History of solid conservative thinking behind her, but it is also how she managed to get into the Parliamentary ‘Conservative Party’ while Cameron was around, when being a LibDem minded Conservative (in name only) was a ticket to success.
I hope she continues to speak out (and we can support her better suggestions) as, at the moment, there is very little worth coming from the party. And there is much to be said.
According to Nadine Dorries in her book, that was the plan. To destroy the Tory party. Maybe something to do with Brexit, that as we know, never really happened.
I have been reading books on Crypto currencies and FTX, what struck me was the amount of energy that the data centres that support this and in future A.I. use in terms of cooling etc,. These things which lets face it are owned by and used by the”Elite” billionaire boys to make more money to buy more private jets useso much emergy in the form of electricity that it dwarfs what the average city would normally use, and there is simply insufficient energy based on current restrictions to power A.I., crypto and the normal needs of citizens and yet the Eco zealots and protesters do not talk or shout for the shutting down of these data centres, neither does Government do anything, in fact the opposite, Sunak et al actively encourages A.I. Why do you think that is?
Conclusion the little people don;t matter, we are dispensible, disposable, what matters is that the tech nerds get to get richer and the Politicians continue to suck up to them.
“the rise of authoritarian regimes and the decline of democracy” is certainly a problem. Britain is a great example.
But which party does Truss support? Ah yes, the Fake Conservatives, under whose watch British democracy has significantly declined, and the State has become a good deal more authoritarian.
She needs to resign from the Conservatives, or get back in her box.
But Miss Truus did you raise those questions in 2019 when Net Zero was being waved through Parliament? ——-I do not think you did. You were part of the group think of all the main party MP’s who asked no questions of cost or viability of Net Zero. There was no DEBATE, and no VOTE. ——You all just waved it on through.