We are ostensibly here to talk about his first new factual book for children. I can’t confirm whether Captain Slow, as his co-presenters have dubbed him, really does understand the workings of a woman’s mind, but he makes for affable company. Instead, I find myself nodding ruefully at mild-mannered May’s “incontrovertible truth” and, yes, helping myself to one or two crunchy outliers off his plate. His other sidekick Richard Hammond would have received short shrift, too. To be quite honest, if those sentiments had been spoken by his Grand Tour compadre and lifelong loudmouth contrarian Jeremy Clarkson, I’d have tipped the ketchup over him quicker than you can yell “toxic masculinity!”. I’m not being sexist, I just know how women operate.”

I own half a pub and I’m going to introduce mini side portions on the menu called ‘For Her’. So instead of getting your own, you will steal mine.

“Do you want me to order you some chips?” he inquires.

Breakfast in a west-London greasy spoon café, and James May is ordering bacon, egg and chips.

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