Clarkson has since said in his column in the Sunday Times that he had suffered a cancer scare two days before the incident.
The attackers used grenade launchers and automatic weapons to fire at the Ukrainian column, hitting an armoured personnel carrier.
It has been recommissioned for a fourth series, to be filmed next December and shown in early 2016, and he is secure enough now that he recently traded up his flat to a house with a garden in north London, though not to Shropshire, as he flat-out lied in a recent column for the Observer.
Over-promoted General Sir Mike Rose, a failed military leader in bloody Bosnia, has his three ha'porth in the paper, while Chris Huhne solemnly accuses Blair of telling lies in his Guardian column.
It went online on a Sunday, but it was only the following day, a work day, that a reader asked him if he'd thought about warning unsuspecting readers that the photo made the article NSFW – Not Safe For Work. "They explained," recalled Ebert, "that they read the column at work ("during lunch break", of course) and were afraid a supervisor or co-worker might see a nude on their monitor.
Zaldostanov had said he would catch up with the column as soon as he gets a visa.
Suspense builds up until (*spoiler alert*) Mount Vesuvius erupts in a red column of flame, showering fiery rain down on the children and forcing them to flee for their lives.
Though it rambles here and there, a few firm philosophies underpin this column.
This column was amended on 27 January 2015 to adjust the amount of coconut required in the Coconut and semolina yoghurt cake, and to remove a reference to the Tropical Bounty tart as being vegan.
Testing takes place this week and all involved are hopeful the column will appear before the end of the month.
9.07am: While waiting for the Dutch debt auction results, there's an entertaining column in the Financial Times today by Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University's professor of economics, in which he compares the eurozone to a young couple who set up with a joint bank account before getting married.
