Jeremy Clarkson is highlighting another British industry in peril

Having achieved more than the National Farmers’ Union has ever done to highlight the plight of its members, it looks like Jeremy Clarkson is now bringing his own brand of accidental lobbying to another down-trodded industry. “They’re closing at the rate of more than a thousand a year,” he wrote in this week’s Sunday Times. “You would have to be mad to buy one. Insane. So I’ve bought a pub.” He’s right: it’s definitely a risky venture. The last few …