Analysis: Clarkson's Comment Reveals Not Just Bad Taste but Bad Feeling

The Scotsman › February 07, 2009

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CALLING the Prime Minister an idiot is not the most eloquent political insult, but many will agree with the sentiment. Calling him one-eyed may technically be true, but attacking a person's disability is in the worst possible taste.

But in choosing also to denigrate Gordon Brown for being Scottish, Jeremy Clarkson has revealed a knee-jerk prejudice that exists among many middle and lower-class English.

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Analysis: Clarkson's Comment Reveals Not Just Bad Taste but Bad Feeling

Whether it is resentment and jealousy at the populist moves of the SNP Scottish Governm...

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