The Herald:

THE empathy of Neil Oliver and Jeremy Clarkson for their fellow human beings is boundless. 

Both have previously been reviled for expressing… how to put this delicately: quixotic reflections on the challenges facing humanity.

Mr Oliver, the UK’s foremost quack historian, once suggested that people who work shouldn’t be taxed.

“Is it fair,” he once asked, “to collect tax from people who have to go to work, and then give that money to other people paid to stay at home?”

Clarkson, whose Top Gear series offering middle-aged men warnings about what can happen to them in middle age, once said: “I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?”

Last week though, they each raised the bar of kindness even higher by volunteering to actually die in the name of freedom. 

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