Jeremy Clarkson has once again stirred debate with a characteristically blunt column in The Sunday Times, arguing that people claiming benefits should be required to send genuine thank-you emails to randomly selected working taxpayers each week—or risk losing their payments. In the piece, published around 1 August 2026 and titled along the lines of “The biggest welfare scroungers? Dogs,” the Clarkson’s Farm star and former Top Gear presenter compared some benefits claimants t