Last week, I wrote about the nonsensical golden handshake awarded to the outgoing boss of Morrisons.

The next day it was announced that 300 workers from the chain will lose their jobs. Three hundred people in 23 stores up and down the UK. These job losses didn't make big news but one potential job loss did.

Jeremy Clarkson, an overpaid, foul-mouthed eejit, made the top story on all the news programmes because he had been suspended from his presenter's job on Top Gear.

He has allegedly punched a fellow worker over a quarrel about a hot meal.

I really don't give a toss about a big pillock who has offended others in the past.

What I am even more annoyed at is the online petition demanding his re-instatement which has apparently gathered nearly one million hits.

All these 'concerned' citizens indignant about one millionaire who, by all accounts, will be signed up by another publicity hungry TV channel immediately.

Yet where is the online petition for the 300 Morrison's staff that'll be hard pushed to find alternative jobs? Where is the indignation and debates and discussions and media coverage over the unfairness of ordinary workers losing their livelihood whilst top bosses and millionaires like Clarkson walk away with plenty?

The Prime Minister actually had the nerve to comment on the Clarkson debacle by saying that his children would 'miss' the show. He was clearly supporting the presenter, who was on a final warning from the BBC about his behaviour.

David Cameron, I noticed, had no comment to make about the 300 low paid Morrison workers dumped on the jobless market.

No intervention there for those people but then again they're not a big spoiled celebrity, whose job it is to fly all over the world trying out new cars and who is paid very handsomely for it.

And oh how convenient the Clarkson rammy has been in dominating the news agendas in the days during the single biggest sell-off of the NHS in its 70 year history. Fourteen private companies have been awarded contracts amounting to over £700 million effectively privatising the NHS in England. Where was the wall to wall coverage of that real scandal?

Designer Babies

What's with the Dolce and Gabanna comments in an Italian magazine about gay adoption and IVF? What planet are those two on? IVF is one of the most wonderful miracles and ingenious scientific discoveries of our time. Millions of people, whose hearts would have been left broken without the gift of a child, would vehemently disagree with their silly opinions. Shamefully these two have chosen to label wee babies born as a result of fertility treatment as 'synthetic'. I know and love children born with the help of IVF and I can assure these two daft designers that there is no difference between an IVF child and a child not aided by IVF. Both are naturally beautiful and special. Sure free speech is important and must be protected but such stupid and hurtful comments certainly deserve strident responses. He may be getting criticised for it but I am with Elton in his boycott campaign. I'll certainly find it easier to comply with than many other boycott campaigns I've been involved with as I don't possess any D&G.

St Patrick's Day

Yesterday my wee girl's teacher asked if any of the children's family members would be celebrating St Patrick's Day. Gabrielle tells me that she proudly put her hand up and declared that her Grandpa Gus (my father) would be 'going to the pub'. Happy St Paddy's day to you all.