The two sayers of the unsayable have had a busy week. But can the
Golden Globes host survive Sarah Vine’s praise?
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Last week, in a much-needed and well-timed satire of snowflake hand-wringing over the
Australian bush fires, the Sun’s politically incorrect columnist Jeremy Clarkson declared the continent unfit for human habitation and welcomed scorched whiteys back to the motherland, unaccompanied minors and all.
The inevitable complaints will have already been offset by Sun accountants against the traffic Clarkson drives through the paper’s website. In the short term, mass extinction can be monetised, in a carbon trading of manufactured offence versus advertising revenue. Those short-beaked echidnas did not die in vain and Rod Liddle will still receive his Sun
Christmas hamper of suet and saveloy sausage.