Press watchdog upholds a complaint about Jeremy Clarkson’s controversial newspaper column attacking Meghan
- Jeremy Clarkson’s controversial column prompted 25,100 complaints
The Press watchdog has upheld a complaint about Jeremy Clarkson‘s controversial newspaper column in which he attacked the Duchess of Sussex.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) said a number of references in Clarkson’s piece in The Sun, when ‘taken together’, ‘amounted to a pejorative and prejudicial reference’ to her sex.
In the article, published last December, the columnist said he was dreaming of the day when Meghan would be paraded naked through the streets of Britain and pelted with ‘excrement’.
The column prompted 25,100 complaints and the Press regulator took forward complaints from two representative groups, the Fawcett Society and the WILDE Foundation.
In the article, published last December, the columnist said he was dreaming of the day when Meghan would be paraded naked through the streets of Britain and pelted with ‘excrement’
Ipso rejected complaints that the piece was inaccurate, harassed the duchess and included discriminatory references to her on the grounds of race
But Ipso rejected complaints that the piece was inaccurate, harassed the duchess and included discriminatory references to her on the grounds of race.
In a statement, The Sun said it accepts ‘that with free expression comes responsibility’, pointing out it has a ‘proud history of campaigning for women’.
Ipso said it was the first time it has upheld a complaint about discrimination relating to someone’s sex.
