Posted By Eric Burt Jeremy Clarkson (and the makers of 'Top Gear' and 'Extreme Clarkson' ) are safety professionals. Some of the wild and wacky things they do are outrageous, but I have NEVER heard of any accidents associated with this programme and have never seen a stunt go wrong. (Unless you know otherwise...) The motto of the BBC is to educate, entertain and inform. Clarkson does all 3, with an emphasis on entertainment. If I want to know about consumer safety matters I watch 'Watchdog' and similar programmes. Because I enjoy cars and want to know about the latest models etc, I watch Top Gear. In Jeremy Clarksons 'Extreme Clarkson' videos, he deals with hazards, he assesses the degree of risk and he puts in place control measures........ (then he films it and convinces the punter that what he is doing is REALLY dangerous). Yep - IOSH should make Jeremy Clarkson an honourary Member! ;-)

Posted By Ron Young Well thats that then, discussion over. I'm amazed that a "prat" can have his programmes so well liked that he's nominated for a BAFTA. We must all be beyond the help of the sane like the eloquent Chris..

Posted By John Mackessack Heather, Hear, Hear! Couldn't agree more. JC (to his friends and admirers) also did an excellent job of promoting Brunel as a Great Briton. Top TV in my opinion and quite rightly deserved (especially against some candidates.......John Lennon? Princess Di?.......give me strength). I am, against all my better judgement, going to stick my head above the parapet and stand up for dear old Jezzer, even though I qualify for a double-whammy of being in two of his least favourite categories of person - safety practitioner AND a motorcyclist (cars are for getting from A to B - but otherwise, they really are just too slow for words). What we need to do is meet Clarkie (to his very good chums) halfway and enter into the spirit, along the lines of the old ladies spinning doughnuts in a Honda S2000 or 'Britain's fastest vicar', like they did last year. Perhaps it could be the 'Britain's fastest safety practitioner in a reasonably priced Volvo'. (although they may have to add another 30 minutes to the programme to allow for the vehicle safety checks and 'cockpit drill' etc). Frankly, I think we NEED the Clarksons of the world to help keep it real. John

Posted By Heather Aston Sounds like a job for IOSH to me. HSE did invite Jeremy in an open letter to come and visit them but apparently he never did. Maybe this one might be more up his street (pun intended). Anyone got a sensibly priced Volvo we might borrow? Heather

Posted By Heather Aston Phil I've got a "lukwarm hatch" - it's like a hot hatch only not quite. John's got a motorbike. You have a small nippy yellow vehicle if I recall correctly from earlier. I assume it's not a Volvo. I think we should have Volvo vs Ferrari driven by safety professionals in a variety of tests including best lap time, safest parking, skid pan trial, obstacle course to be negotiated safely, etc. I volunteer to drive the Ferrari.... :) Heather

Posted By Phil.D.Baptiste Heather, it's a 'sporting', lukewarm, like yours, but still fun....we could all go tank driving, that is fun, I didn't stop smiling for a week last time and that wasn't my first....then we could run over all Clarksons 'out of the reach of a most' vehicles....or off road racing, again puts a grin on your face! (and a skid in your shreddies). Philby

Posted By Merv Newman Now for the sad news - I drive a Rover 75 myself. Any offers ?

Posted By Ron Young How do you get yourself (un) notified from responses to threads?. This one has gone downhill v quickly

Posted By Chris Black Oh dear I seem to have upset quite a few of Clarkson's devotees by my swingeing criticism. Heather, you are right. I didn't see the VC programme. That is because the beloved Jeremy was in it. I don't deny that Clarkson is very popular, but then so are McDonalds, Gareth Gates, and self-mutilation amongst teenage goths. Case rested