Fired
BBC drops Clarkson from Top Gear and decides not to renew his contract. BBC director general, Hall:
For me a line has been crossed. There cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another dictated by either rank, or public relations and commercial considerations……..This decision should in no way detract from the extraordinary contribution that Jeremy Clarkson has made to the BBC. I have always personally been a great fan of his work and Top Gear.
Warns supporters
In his column in The Sun, Clarkson warns his supporters that protests never work
The simple truth of the matters is this: Protest never works. Because we are all plankton. And the world is run by whales. Oh, you can be a big and important plankton but that doesn’t make a jot of difference if a whale has decided to eat you up.