In the long running saga of Jeremy Clarkson's dismissal (sorry, contract non-renewal) as the host of Top Gear, it now transpires that he was offered his job back last week. This is in spite of the BBC statements that Jeremy had crossed some sort of line and that there cannot be one rule for one person and another for another(or some such meaningless drivel).
I've no doubt that the job offer was made as a result of the Twitter response to suggestions of alternative hosts. Jeremy did well to refuse the offer, probably thinking of the storm that would erupt if any idiot with a stupid conspiracy theory decided to imbue a random licence plate with another mythical meaning or fail to understand that the word "slope" refers to an incline.
So now the BBC is stuck with Chris Evans as host despite the backlash of negativity from Top Gear's former viewers while Clarkson, May and Hammond start work on a rival show.
It is now too late for me to reiterate my own objections to Evans as the deed has been done and a £5m deal signed. But let me just say this: that $5m and whatever else the show costs is an utter waste of licence payer's money and that waste will be a direct result of corporate mismanagement and the kind of dullard thinking we have come to expect from the BBC in recent years.
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