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Jeremy Clarkson: I love the French | Daily Star Jeremy Clarkson has admitted he loves and admires the French

We are disgusted by that, as we let yet another rapist walk free because of his human rights

Jeremy Clarkson

The Top Gear host has insulted the Scots, Germans, Indians, Mexicans and other nationalities in the past.

But he said: “How can you not like France?”

And he lists a host of reasons why he has a soft spot for our cross-Channel neighbour.

They include its fast trains, nuclear power stations, cheese, wine and snails, and “bougainvillea-dappled sunshine”.

He loves the ski town of Val d’Isere, posh beach resort St Tropez and the fading splendour of seaside town Biarritz.

And the traditional super-whinger even had unusual words of praise for the French people.

He hailed their attitude, style of life, their priorities, dress sense and “undress sense”. Clarkson, 52, added: “I even like the French way of looking at what the rest of the world is doing and then doing the exact opposite.

“An email, for instance, is called just that everywhere. But not in France.

“They have an academy set up to preserve the French language, which has decided that actually it’s called a courriel.”

Despite the unexpected admiration, Clarkson still could not resist a few customary jibes at those across the Channel.

He branded their pop songs appalling and their poetry dreary, labelled their farmers as “lamb-burning” and described Paris waiters as uninterested.

He said: “The French are perfectly happy to abide by any international rule, but only if it suits them.

“We are disgusted by that, as we let yet another rapist walk free because of his human rights.”