Taki: Stephen Fry and the gay lobby should cool it over the Winter Olympics

I’ve met Stephen Fry twice in my life, both times long ago. The first time at a dinner given by the then editor of The Spectator,

Dominic Lawson, in London, and the second time in a restaurant in New York with the writers Jay McInerney and Brett Easton Ellis. The first time I was completely out of it, the second he was, hence we didn’t exactly connect. Fry has been in the news lately for demanding a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. His beef is Russian anti-gay legislation. Now there’s a hell of a lot of things that are wrong with Russia — first and foremost all the criminal-oligarchs are abroad instead of in jail — but anti-gay legislation is on the bottom of the pile. Let’s start with the hypocrisy of the bleating. When Qatar was awarded the 2022 Football World Cup, I didn’t hear Stephen Fry or the gay lobbies in Britain and America make a sound.