We at The Sun regret the publication of last week's Jeremy Clarkson column and we are sincerely sorry.

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IN last Saturday’s Sun, Jeremy Clarkson wrote a comment article about the Duchess of Sussex.

It provoked a strong response and led to a large number of complaints to IPSO, the independent press regulator.

In a tweet earlier this week, Jeremy said he had made a “clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones”, which had “gone down badly with a great many people” and he was “horrified to have caused so much hurt”.

He also said he will be more careful in future.

Columnists’ opinions are their own, but as a publisher, we realise that with free expression comes responsibility.

We at The Sun regret the publication of this article and we are sincerely sorry.

The article has been removed from our website and archives. The Sun has a proud history of campaigning, from Help for Heroes to Jabs Army and Who Cares Wins, and over 50 years of working in partnership with charities, our campaigns have helped change Britain for the better.

Working with our readers, The Sun has helped to bring about new legislation on domestic abuse, provided beds in refuges, closed harmful loopholes in the law and empowered survivors of abuse to come forward and seek help.

We will continue to campaign for good causes on behalf of our readers in 2023.

www.thesun.co.uk/clarifications/20850273/jeremy-clarkson-the-sun/

No direct apology to the Duchess of Sussex in that statement 😐

An apology because they realize how many people were offended and it might affect sales.

Liverpool has the right idea where that rag is concerned.

Can you make a complaint against the newspaper specifically for printing the article? I complained to IPSO about Jeremy Clarkson's article but maybe I need to make a separate one about the Sun.

It’s not even a proper apology.JC has come out of this relatively unscathed. It’s disgusting.

So no proper apology from anyone at fault here???

Or statement that they will ensure nothing like this will be published again??

They can just piss off with their self serving bullshit

They can fuck off.

God knows how many women and girls - including any of us posting or reading this thread - could suffer hate based male violence or aggression in the coming year as a direct result of what they allowed.

Pathetic.And so they all continue gaslighting on an industrial scale. Perhaps they need help rewriting their statement.

We were caught out enabling racist and misogynistic columns that directly targeted the Duchess of Sussex. You lot got out of your box and complained so we thought we’d take it down. We love all women (except the Duchess of Sussex who we have pointedly not apologised to), but back to how much we love women -remember how we stopped running Page 3. Page 3 ran for 45-yrs in our paper and we stopped it even though women were campaigning for years to get this everyday sexism to stop. See how much we love all women (except the Duchess of Sussex).

I disagree with the the way the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have gone about their interactions with the media since stepping down from royal duties. What the odious Mr Clarkson has done, though, is the absolute epitome of appalling misogyny - he has singled out only the woman and advocated violence towards her, no mention of the man by her side behaving in the same way. He is a particular brand of entitled middle aged man who cannot disagree without lashing out.

Well what a surprise.

No apology from Clarkson, let alone one to MM that he (viciously?) attacked.
And no apologies from The Sun either.

Just two ‘people’ (nit sure you can call The Sun a person iyswim) trying to cover their back. Lip service to the ‘im really sorry’ hoping people will quickly forget. Which tbh they will. (Or the vast majority will)

So basically, we have principles, but we can't spot something that's the antithesis of them when it's in black and white in our own publication. Until advertisers get involved (because that's what will have happened!).

If they're sorry, and support women, they won't have a man with unashamedly sadistic misogynistic fantasies in their list of writers. He's just told the nation what he thinks the status of half of them is.

Nor will the editor who thought this was ok to print - despite the paper's commitment to women's rights, apparently - be signing off on any more articles.

*status of half the nation is

What a lot of words to say "We're sorry, not sorry but never mind".

It reads like

People have moaned on and on

Jeremy Clarkson acknowledged this (that people were moaning on)

We're very sorry (that people moaned on)

We are a great newspaper, good causes good causes pieces of eight blah blah

You all take care now

An apology because they realize how many people were offended and it might affect sales

Precisely - but then what else would we expect from the gutter media?

Hmm. That's a mealy-mouthed excuse of an apology if ever I saw one.

Along with everything else that was appallingly wrong about that article, they (and JC) should have twigged that there are millions of people, not only in this country but all over the world, who have never seen Game of Thrones, and would have had no idea that it was a 'clumsy reference' to a scene in the programme. They would have taken his comments as they stood.

The man is a disgrace, and so is that rag.

No direct apology to the Duchess of Sussex in that statement

It’s absolutely the epitome of ‘sorry we got caught’ isn’t it. I’d rather they said nothing than that hollow apology.

This ☝

Everything that everyone has said on this thread so far.

There has been no apology. They must donate a lump sum to the charities and fire JC.

And the palace keeping quiet.

(I did say on another thread that, if they do at all, they would likely issue an apology at the slowest news day like Boxing Day or something, and it will not be discussed in the top panel shows etc., but that is me thinking highly of them).

I'm not a fan of either the Sun or H&M, and I don't think that article should ever have been published. The Sun knew it would be unacceptable so what where their reasons to publish? Even for Clarkson, who is a known knob, that was far beyond his usual level of twattery.

Both 'apologies' fall short of the mark, in intention and sincerity for me.

i'M nO fAn oF H&m bUt, LMAO keep it, who asked if you were a fan 😂

Jeremy Clarkson is scum. Always has been, always will be. Should have disappeared from "public life" when he hit that bloke.
If he were the bloke down the road- and not a twat on telly, he'd have been locked up by now. Hitting people on the street, incitement to hatred of various kinds, verbal violence against women.
There used to be an "I lurvs JC" poster on MN. Even then (when his only crime was forcing his dickmobiles down our throats on prime time TV) you wondered if that poster was Mrs Clarkson because, frankly, who, other than his wife or mother ever would.
Repulsive man.

We were left waiting decades for an apology for those despicable lies.

It’s disgusting it was ever printed, that JC is still working at all, that it took so long for this (crap) apology, that JC hasn’t apologised.

The whole thing is just awful

It impacted sales. They probably didn’t realise how popular Megan is with young working class men

Is she? Her life has nothing in common with young working class men. I’d be interested to see such a poll. Define young and define working class?