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Jeremy Clarkson - who is a silly boy then?

You have got to love Jeremy Clarkson, at least he is prepared to put his money where his mouth is, quite literally in this case! In his newspaper column in The Sunday Times, he said that the whole fuss about the British Government losing a huge quantity of bank and personal data (I think it was something like 7 million families’ records!) was a storm in a teacup. Now usually he is one of the first people to lampoon the government, so this was a bit of a novelty in itself, but he then went on to give out his bank details - well you give them out if you write anyone a cheque (no, not a check; Jezza, like me, is a Brit after all!) anyway don’t you? He then went on to tell people how to get his address from the electoral roll and find out what car he drives, because there is no possible way that this data could be used against him…

Now I don’t know if it was his New Year’s resolution to be more, er humble, but after firstly sticking up for the government, he has now admitted that he may, actually, possibly, very slightly, have got it a little wrong when he found someone had set up a payment from his account to the British Diabetic Association for £500 per month. But don’t fear kids, just in case you thought Jezza might be getting soft in his old age, he commented, “Contrary to what I said at the time, we must go after the idiots who lost the discs and stick cocktail sticks in their eyes until they beg for mercy.” Ah, bless him, we wouldn’t have it any other way