ONLY NOW, AT THE END, DO THEY UNDERSTAND: Stephen Fry is just the latest victim in the authoritarian Left’s war on funny — Humour becomes all but impossible in an era when noisy mobs of self-styled holders of correct opinions are myopically policing what we say.

A half century ago, when the British left was waging war against the postwar “establishment,” it was the so-called “satire boom” that gave them a major foothold. Fry is simply asking his fellow revolutionaries to please devour him last.