A column penned by Jeremy Clarkson in The Sun, which depicted the Duchess of Sussex being paraded naked in the street, has been deemed sexist by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), the press regulator. A record-breaking 25,000 complaints were received by Ipso regarding the article. Lord Faulks, the chairman of Ipso, stated that the imagery used was “humiliating and degrading towards the duchess.”
Prince Harry and Meghan accused Clarkson of propagating “hate rhetoric” and condemned the article for promoting “dangerous conspiracy theories and misogyny.” The Sun, in response to the Ipso ruling, acknowledged that with free expression comes responsibility. The publication and its columnist apologized for the column in December 2022 and removed it from their website. However, they did not accept that the article breached the editor’s code, attributing the concerns raised to a “matter of taste and judgement.”
