{"id":18275,"date":"2025-03-28T13:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/digested-week-i-agree-with-jeremy-clarkson-my-enemys-enemy-is-still-kind-of-a-jerk-emma-brockes\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:38:18","slug":"digested-week-i-agree-with-jeremy-clarkson-my-enemys-enemy-is-still-kind-of-a-jerk-emma-brockes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/digested-week-i-agree-with-jeremy-clarkson-my-enemys-enemy-is-still-kind-of-a-jerk-emma-brockes\/","title":{"rendered":"Digested week: I agree with Jeremy Clarkson \u2013 my enemy\u2019s enemy is still kind of a jerk | Emma Brockes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motormouth v Musk is a hard spectacle to resist and, in the end, it turns out the monsters are real<\/p>\n<p>With all the other conflicts going on in the world right now, Elon Musk v Jeremy Clarkson is one we could probably safely afford to sit out. I am weak-willed, however, and click through to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/article\/5b99cde6-6114-49a6-a987-481742c12e94\">story in the Times<\/a> to test the principle of \u201cmy enemy\u2019s enemy is my friend\u201d. Musk is a real villain and Clarkson is just a motormouth, but I suspect the latter \u2013 for reasons of basic functionality and the sort of flippant humour with which Musk seems ill-equipped to cope \u2013 is capable of getting the better of the world\u2019s richest man, should these latest remarks of Clarkson\u2019s come to his attention.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/mar\/28\/digested-week-i-agree-with-jeremy-clarkson-my-enemys-enemy-is-still-a-kind-of-jerk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fa172ca3aef7b12b9b68fd0dbb5736a4b8eee2da\/0_51_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1c8c7e51e7b303793698194f08831375\" title=\"Digested week: I agree with Jeremy Clarkson \u2013 my enemy\u2019s enemy is still kind of a jerk | Emma Brockes\" \/>Motormouth v Musk is a hard spectacle to resist and, in the end, it turns out the monsters are real<br \/>\nWith all the other conflicts going on in the world right now, Elon Musk v Jeremy Clarkson is one we could probably safely afford to sit out. I am weak-willed, however, and click through to the story in the Times to test the principle of \u201cmy enemy\u2019s enemy is my friend\u201d. Musk is a real villain and Clarkson is just a motormouth, but I suspect the latter \u2013 for reasons of basic functionality and the sort of flippant humour with which Musk seems ill-equipped to cope \u2013 is capable of getting the better of the world\u2019s richest man, should these latest remarks of Clarkson\u2019s come to his attention. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motormouth v Musk is a hard spectacle to resist and, in the end, it turns out the monsters are real With all the other conflicts going on in the world right now, Elon Musk v Jeremy Clarkson is one we could probably safely afford to sit out. I am weak-willed, however, and click through to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/digested-week-i-agree-with-jeremy-clarkson-my-enemys-enemy-is-still-kind-of-a-jerk-emma-brockes\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digested week: I agree with Jeremy Clarkson \u2013 my enemy\u2019s enemy is still kind of a jerk | Emma Brockes<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}