To help readers discover how politically incorrect they are, The Sunday Times ran a little quiz earlier this month. Question 9 was: “Do you think Stephen Fry is: a) A doughty campaigner for gay rights? b) Very clever on QI and awfully good as Jeeves? c) Looking rather fat and smug these days?” Those who answered c were characterised as being white-van drivers – the sort of person who drapes flags of St George on the house and is patronised by passing Labour MPs.It is important to realise that Stephen Fry has a quasi-constitutional role. Just as Richard Dimbleby once commentated at state occasions such as the Coronation or Churchill’s funeral, so Fry fronts the modern equivalents in a popular culture. Last Sunday (for the tenth time), it was the Bafta awards. S