Peter Rhodes on university profits, meeting Ms Jonsson and rehabilitating the rattlesnake
When I defended Jeremy Clarkson's right to offend Meghan Markle a few days ago, it was based, naturally, on the assumption that when commentators vent their bile, the targets are big enough and rich enough to defend themselves.
There's nothing admirable in using your column to take pot-shots at the defenceless. We punch up, not down.
In his latest Sunday Times column, the former Top Gear presenter savages a young waiter in a hotel who wasn't quite up to Clarkson's standards, denouncing the clearly identifiable lad as slovenly, thick and “six foot of teenage gormlessness”. That's not clever, it's bullying.
