article_snippet: Favored topics include environmentalism, traffic laws and liberals.
article_snippet: Both Clarkson and the UK prime minister have homes in an affluent, rural part of central England known as the Cotswolds.
article_snippet: Clarkson and the UK prime minister are part of a wealthy group of media, politics and showbiz acquaintances who live in and around Cameron's Oxfordshire constituency.
article_snippet: Clarkson and the UK prime minister have been dubbed "The Chipping Norton Set.
article_snippet: In an article for the Daily Telegraph, former chief political commentator Peter Oborne described "The Chipping Norton Set" as "an incestuous collection of louche, affluent, power-hungry and amoral Londoners.
article_snippet: Clarkson's popularity also comes from regular columns in venerated newspaper, The Sunday Times and tabloid The Sun.
article_snippet: A recent Sunday The Sunday Times column with the headline "Phrasebook, tick.
article_snippet: " attracted the ire of people from the northern English city of Liverpool.
article_snippet: former chief political commentator Peter Oborne wrote: "People up there (north) earn less, die more quickly, have fewer jobs and live in houses that are worth the square root of sod all."
article_snippet: Local newspaper, The Liverpool Echo, which pointed out that Clarkson is a northerner himself, published a series of responses to the piece from local people who described former chief political commentator Peter Oborne as "stuck in the past" and "a fake southerner" whose comments were "as dated as former chief political commentator Peter Oborne double denims.