Quote of the day

"Protest never works. Because we are all plankton. And the world is run by whales. 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. You can get a million other plankton to dress up and wave banners but Mr Whale won't even notice."

Jeremy Clarkson writing in his column in the Sun on Saturday, with a comment that couldn't better exemplify the argument of Guardian columnists Hadley Freeman and Suzanne Moore that he seems to regard himself as a victimised man of the people rather than the obnoxious privileged bully he really is.