The peoples' democratic blog of Matt Hayward

The Top Gear Christmas special was an absolute boon for me. A quick look at Final Gear and the boys were off on a pilgrimage to Bethlehem. We’d already booked tickets for Jordan and Syria a few months earlier and it made the trip all the more awesome! This post will give you a bit [...]

On my most recent jaunt overseas, I decided to stock up on reading material for several bus and plane rides. Wouldn’t you know it, there’s a Malaysian version of Top Gear -the April 2009 edition as it goes. After all it’s all basically the same content right, with a few local contributions? All was looking [...]

Top Gear is in Jeremy Clarkson’s own words a true boys’ own adventure. It’s a show that captures the hopes and dreams of all red blooded men in the same way books and radio serials used to in the olden days. And in a way that hasn’t captivated the masses since the days of crystal [...]

Er, frankly not what I expected. Here’s the breakdown:

2% about James May and the Jeremy Clarkson
5% childhood
5% getting to Top Gear
13% Top Gear pre-accident
75% ‘the accident’

Don’t get me wrong, of course I expected it to be about the accident. But much like the Walk the Line movie about Johnny Cash, I expected a big crescendo [...]

I bought this book to read on the plane to Croatia. It’s probably perfectly suited to flying reading, but unless your plane has been delayed 3 hours don’t bother!
May’s quirky style means each rant, or chapter, is no longer than 5 pages [edit: not being in the UK, I didn't know these are reprints [...]