Odds and Ends of History

Odds and Ends of History

How to fix Top Gear

And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson

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James O'Malley
Sep 02, 2026
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The plaque in the hotel where Jeremy Clarkson punched a producer and brought his BBC career to an end. I took an electric car there to see it in 2018, and took this photo myself.

BIG NEWS! I got so annoyed by bad data centre takes last weekend that I decided to remove the paywall from my recent post on Britain’s looming AI national security crisis. Go and read it if you missed it!


POD! On YIMBY Pod this week, Martin and I talk about a Cambridge new-build estate where it is literally illegal to recycle rainwater – and we speak to Sunny Hundal about his new campaign to make energy both clean and cheap. Listen here, or wherever you get your pods.


Jeremy Clarkson once brutally humiliated me.

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