Jeremy Clarkson reveals why he fears human heads will grow too big!

8 April 2024

Jeremy Clarkson is worried human heads will grow too big due to the world becoming increasingly “confusing”.

Jeremy Clarkson is worried human heads will grow too big due to the world becoming increasingly ‘confusing’

The former ‘Top Gear’ presenter, 63, took aim at modern entertainment and food services for being overly-complicated, and argued the intricacies of modern life would cause people’s brains to needlessly expand.

He said in his Sunday Times column: “Already, we have many people who think that an old newspaper full of fish ’n’ chips is no match for a grilled trout on a bed of whatever the modern-day equivalent of a potato is.

“Certainly I bet you never saw the day coming when you threw your microwave in the bin and replaced it with a man on a moped.

“I’m not being a Luddite here. I want new medicines and new ways of communicating with people. I don’t even mind that artists have moved on from charcoal and crayons, but I do have to wonder about the speed we’re going.

“A study published recently determined that the human brain was roughly the same size for thousands of years, but since the 1930’s, it has begun to grow at an astonishing rate. It’s now 6.6 per cent bigger by volume, and 14.9 per cent by surface area.

“And there’s no evidence that this growth is slowing. Which means we will continue to become cleverer and more complicated until eventually our heads are so massive, it’ll become impossible to be born.”

‘The Grand Tour’ host also bashed the film ‘Dune: Part Two’ for being “completely incomprehensible” and knocked the characters of Baron Harkonnen (played by Stellan Skarsgård) and Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) for being too nuanced.

He said: “Everyone told me that the new ‘Dune’ movie is very good, so I went to see it. And it turns out they were lying. It’s completely incomprehensible.

“By concentrating pretty hard, I worked out that the guy from ‘Ronin,’ in the black vinyl nightie, was the baddie. But after the woman from ‘Mission: Impossible’ drank the blood from a supersonic earwig and was suddenly covered in writing, it’s possible she was up to no good too.

“Luckily, however, I live in Chipping Norton, where the local cinema is fitted with comfortable sofas and pretty waitresses who bring you rosé, so I got a bottle, relaxed and concentrated on that instead.”