What Stephen Fry and Will Self have in common (apart from being left-wing and fantastically irritating)

According to the Dictionary of National Celebrity, Stephen Fry is “a stupid person’s idea of what an intelligent person is like.”

While doing the washing up last week, I became aware of William "Will" Woodard Self droning on in his all-too-imitable Eeyorish style on BBC Radio 4’s A Point of View (something about the changing nature of our vision of Utopia) when the following thought popped into my head:

“Will Self is a stupid teenager’s idea of what an intelligent teenager is like.”

I was quite pleased with that.