Complete overreaction, from our media, to the (expected) comments from Clarkson.
As I said on the women in sport debate, with the SPOTY issue, our media like to whip us all into a frenzy, to be morally outraged at the slightest thing. Typical examples (this year) are Richard Keys/Andy Gray, and the Sepp Blatter race interview, which barely made the media throughout Europe, but in the morally outraged UK, it was the first item on the news on every channel, and the front page on every newspaper.
I've said this for years, this country is run by about a dozen people....not the cabinet, but the head honchos at the BBC, Sky and ITN, as well as the editors of Sun, Star, Mirror, Mail, Express, Times etc. They decide how we should feel and what goes on, not elected people, and unfortunately, most of the nation fall for it