“I feel that there’s a ‘right-on’ fascism,” he says, then corrects himself, “no, that’s a bit strong… It feels like we’ve come from a point when I was growing up, where the Right, if you like, were dictating what could be said and done and seen – where Mary Whitehouse was the figurehead of censorship. And increasingly now it feels like it’s the liberal agenda that dictates what can and cannot be joked about. People are being leapt on because they happened to use the wrong terminology about Bruce Jenner, or Caitlyn Jenner, or whatever his name is now, or her name: there I am making mistakes. I’ll probably get in trouble for that.”