I’m going soft on Richard Hammond. I don’t know if he’s changed or I have. He certainly doesn’t seem as wacky and zany as he once was (two traits I loathe), but he’s no stiff. Anyway, whatever, I’ve been on quite a inner-journey and never confessed this to anyone.

See, once upon a time, on these very pages, I wrote something about Richard Hammond that was so appalling that one of the people who runs Shiny Media took it off the page almost immediately (they’re a shadowy, clandestine bunch like the Illuminati… I met one once and all I could see was a hand from behind a huge chair like Doctor Claw from Inspector Gadget). I really did hate Hammond with all my might… but something has clearly happened.

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