It’s hard to account for the unending fuss over one-time New Zealander Phillip Schofield.
For decades a popular British television presenter, latterly as one of those confected TV breakfast show “couples”, he now stands before numerous firing squads.
For what? His somewhat less cuddly fellow celeb Jeremy Clarkson put it succinctly: “For being what he said he was. Gay.” Ridiculous as this sounds,