By tonight, more than half a million people had signed an online petition calling for the presenter to be reinstated.
By late Wednesday night more than 620,000 people had signed an online petition organised by the rightwing blogger Guido Fawkes calling for the presenter to be reinstated by the BBC.
I mean, how dare they go on strike when they've got these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living?" Unison called for the presenter to be sacked and he later apologised.
An online petition calling for the presenter's reinstatement has been signed by more than one million people since his suspension.
Nnevermindd of Beijing: "Clarkson...is the big monkey after a break?" Top Gear, shown on BBC Persian as "Takht-e Gaz", is popular among Iranians, and Clarkson's suspension has led to calls for the presenter whom his Iranian followers call the "old man", to come back.
We are well aware of the criticism that too many of the presenters at the BBC are men, and of the calls for more women presenters.
In an essay in The New York Times in June, Professor Kramer called for classical music presenters to follow the lead of enterprising art museums, which have had much success in presenting new and old art in interactive, stimulating and demystifying ways.
On this station, it is not humour that attracts audiences but a mixture of politics and conservative Islamic rhetoric where presenters and guests often call for an Islamic state and Sharia law in Egypt.
Publication of selected proceedings was facilitated periodically through an agreement with the Journal of Correctional Health Care and announced to conference presenters annually and via a Call for Papers commentary (Miles 2012).
Despite calls for the veteran presenter to be sacked from Loose Women, a spokesman for the programme said: "She will be on the panel next week, so that answers the question".
The White House has yet to respond to an online petition calling for the TV presenter to be marched to the nearest American exit, but it has not stopped UK citizens from launching a pre-emptive strike against any such move.
