Jeremy Clarkson rips apart BBC woke agenda as he unleashes damning verdict on Storm Eowyn ‘hysteria’
Jeremy Clarkson has launched into a furious attack on the BBC’s woke “narrative” following “hysteric” coverage of Storm Eowyn.
The 64-year-old laid blame on the publicly funded national broadcaster’s alleged “anti-Tory, anti-growth, anti-business global-warming” bias in a scathing rant.
Last Thursday, almost five million Britons received a “danger to life” warning on their phone as the storm approached.
The foreboding message warned Britons of a red warning for wind which was issued across much of Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Accordingly, coverage of Storm Eowyn was severe – featuring threatening-looking weather charts and reporters on the scene being buffeted by the bad weather.
The former Top Gear presenter fumed at the grave reporting which meant “businesses arranged to shut for the day, travel plans were changed and everyone made sure their garden trampolines were chained to newly sunk concrete foundations.
“And then we woke up yesterday morning to find it was a bit breezy,” Clarkson wrote in his column for The Sun.
The 64-year-old described the “bloody nuisance” of the media surrounding what he branded “Storm Eeowowyion.”
“I also lived through the Storm of ’87 and I’ve been to southern Chile where it rains, heavily, all day and every day for six months. And it’s always fine. We cope,” he insisted.
However, Clarkson also claimed there was a far more cynical motive was behind the dramatic coverage of the storm.
“Look, I know why the weather- men like to get hysterical,” he began “It means they are elevated from a slot at the end of a news bulletin into the bulletin itself and this makes their mums and dads very proud.”
Beyond that, Clarkson also revealed he had a suspicion why “BBC television producers like the histrionics as well.”
In a blistering broadside, the 64-year-old slammed the corporation for harbouring an “anti-Tory, anti-growth, anti-business global-warming” bias.
The former Top Gear star claimed the Storm Eowyn coverage “played into” a “narrative” the BBC would like to spin.
This weekend, Clarkson also challenged the BBC and Winterwatch presenter Chris Packham over claims of bias.
The former Grand Tour presenter also made headlines following his row with Victoria Derbyshire during the farmer’s protests last year.
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At least two people are known to have died directly as a result of Storm Eowyn which buffeted Britain this weekend.
Emergency services had descended on East Road in Irvine at around 10.10am on Friday after receiving reports of an unresponsive man.
Earlier today it emerged a Scottish teenager had also died in hospital after a tree fell on his car just hours before the red warning came into effect.
The first named storm of 2025 reached 100mph wind speeds at Drumalbin in South Lanarkshire in Scotland – the strongest gust so far today in the UK, the Met Office said.