![]() ![]() The Daily Mail's TV critic Sarah Vine has given the new season Clarkson Farm a five-star review Like all blunderbuss blokes of his ilk, he has a soft spot for a pair of big brown eyes and long lashes, especially if they happen to belong to a baby cow. In particular, he adores his animals, and I always think that's a good sign in a man. That said, he does muck in when the task truly demands it. He does an excellent line in contrite Clarkson. It's a bit disingenuous: in actual fact he's sharp as a box of tacks – as evidenced whenever he has to interact with the hostile locals or deal with anything really serious.īut his bumbling demeanour is a great ruse, not only for ensuring that those around him take care of all the really hard work (he's perfectly capable of driving a tractor in a straight line, but it's just so much easier, and more entertaining, to mess it up so someone else has to finish the job), but also in terms of comedic value. They are, after all, custodians of this green and pleasant land, and many can't even afford to pay themselves a living wage.Ĭlarkson himself takes the role of idiot savant, the townie incompetent, forever driving into fences and breaking expensive bits of machinery. The insanity of the situations that farmers face on a day-to-day basis, hamstrung by red tape and regulations, is a scandal that deserves much wider attention. Funny, clever, touching, tragic on a human (and animal) level but also hugely insightful, informative and eye-opening from the point of view of farming, and the issues facing rural communities in general. This second series of Clarkson's Farm is, I'm afraid, completely brilliant. Yes, some – indeed many – of the things he says are crass and outrageous but I for one still find him less annoying than all the sanctimonious snowflakes he specialises in scandalising. But for those who find his brand of unreconstructed, unapologetic, pot-bellied political incorrectness as refreshing as an ice-cold pint in the Gobi desert, the hoo-ha won't have made much difference. ![]() There are some things that are just better left unsaid. ![]() There's no doubt Clarkson went too far in his piece about Meghan. Many, it seems, hate him on a cellular levelĭespite repeated and profuse apologies, question marks now hang over the future of his two hit Amazon Prime Video shows, The Grand Tour and this, Clarkson's Farm, and it's not entirely clear where ITV stands on his role as presenter of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. Few public figures divide opinion quite as much as Jeremy Clarkson. ![]()
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