Three cheers for the Duchess of Cornwall who heroically stood up for freedom of speech last week by declaring that “political correctness is as severe a form of censorship as any”. The Duchess has shown how game she is, given all the stick she has taken in the past by journalists exercising their freedom of speech. She has now earned herself a guaranteed place in the next routine of stand-up comic Stewart Lee, who believes that political correctness is a “huge lie”.