ONE person’s wisecrack is another’s cardinal sin, as anyone who has spent an evening in the company of Jimmy Carr or Ricky Gervais will readily acknowledge. We all have our uncrossable lines, but we draw them in different places – unless we have the misfortune to live in a theocracy, where the lines are drawn for us by people who never crack a smile, let alone burst into hysterics.
So what are we to make of the Jamie George Affair, which has left rugby followers in the red-faced corner, outraged by the misogynistic excess of a social media post from the “Al...