Why Top Gear remains annoyingly excellent television — theguardian.com

Liking Top Gear brings shame. Jeremy Clarkson embodies everything that’s wrong with straight, white, old men, pampered but inexplicably vengeful, running the country. I’d rather drive a pastel-blue Hyundai Accent 1.5 CRTD GSI than be among the Top Gear studio audience, with their furious Ukip faces and suspiciously uniform laughter. And, of course, the show ought to have been taken off air at least once, and probably twice, for well-documented reasons.

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