Why I'm gunning for litter louts

IT’S kind of an unwritten rule among newspaper columnists: never name, or quote, another newspaper columnist. Even if he or she has written something really good. In fact, ESPECIALLY if they have written something really good. Plough your own furrow. Stick to your own field.

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Well here goes: another convention shattered on these pages. I’m going to quote one Jeremy Clarkson, right. Writing in last weekend’s Sunday Times, he said litterers should be shot.

Although the ex-Top Gear and now Clarkson’s Farm presenter doesn’t believe in the death penalty, he would “make an exception” for people who drop litter.

“I would have snipers in trees and on top of bus shelters and there'd be no trials, no arrests, no reading of rights.

“Just BLAM. Bullet in your head and your body dumped in a skip.”

Hmm. Obviously that’s a bit extreme, even for Jezza. But hand on heart, doesn’t a tiny bit of you agree with him?