How to be Bourgeois, and other matters

I am pleased to see the enthusiasts for Stephen Fry attempting to hit back here on his behalf. I have long enjoyed the wonderful description of Mr Fry given by the Dictionary of National Celebrity 'a stupid person's idea of what an intelligent person is like', not least because it helps to explain much of the enthusiasm among received-opinion leftists for this person's rather unprofound and trite opinions.

Radical opinion has now become so dull and free of thought or knowledge that Mr Fry...