Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

Time for a naked protest against global cant and in support of Jeremy Clarkson

Time for a naked protest against global cant and in support of Jeremy Clarkson

issue 17 June 2006

Time for a naked protest against global cant and in support of Jeremy Clarkson

I was all set to join some of my more liberated neighbours on York’s Naked Bike Ride last Friday, until I discovered that it was yet another protest against ‘global oil dependency’. The debate about climate change, carbon emissions and who is doing what to the planet has reached such a fever pitch of self-righteousness and middle-class guilt that it is time for sensible people to start backpedalling.

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