LAST EDITED ON Apr-20-15 AT 02:54 PM (EDT) by Mephron (moderator)
 
>Annoyingly, Clarkson's Sunday Times column is behind a paywall,
>but BBC News has a meta-article about this week's installment which is... illuminating.

Indeed, it rather fits the theory that he'd reached burnout or was rapidly approaching it. In the course of a year, he had to deal with the death of his mother, the breakup of his marriage, the whole scare in Argentina, and then being told he might possibly have cancer. You can only put so much pressure on a man before he snaps.