Richard Hammond, one of the presenters of BBC motoring show Top Gear crashed a jet powered car while trying to break a land speed record (or not maybe) yesterday. He’s currently in serious condition in hospital. He’s a funny guy, I hope he makes a full recovery.

Top Gear has always been a target of TV campaigners. Environmentalists hate it for obvious reasons (I have my own mixed feelings about that aspect), anti-speed campaigners hate it for equally obvious reasons, and some people just hate Jeremy Clarkson. But if anyone uses the Hamster’s accident as an excuse to renew calls for banning the show I will hide dead sardines in their curtain linings.