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Ah, yes. Er..

Stephen Fry. He was a part of the Cambridge Footlights, along with Hugh Laurie (of “House” fame) and played Jeeves to Laurie’s Wooster in “Jeeves and Wooster”, Melchett in “Blackadder”, and Dr. Gordon Wyatt in “Bones”. He was also in “V for Vendetta”, presents the game show “QI”, and is an astoundingly brilliant raconteur.

Here’s irony for you: if you asked any true Englishman to list their Top Five quintessentially English men from the past fifty years (by which I mean an affable, slightly eccentric walking advert for pipes, slippers, cricket, tea and scones, pithy wit, ill-fitting suits, and looking and sounding like he’s been dragged out of the 1950s), I would absolutely put money on them saying Stephen Fry because he ticks every box on that list.

Which means that the thinking man’s quintessential conservative Englishman, if you follow every stereotype known to man, just happens to be a raging leftist anti-Catholic, pro-Palestinian humanist who got expelled from school, went to art college, and, yes, turned out to be a poof.

That is why Stephen Fry is, for my money, living proof that God appreciates bitter irony.