Apparently making fun of the sheep shagggers is now a thought crime:

The student newspaper at St Andrews University, where Prince William is
in his final year, has been shut down after making a light-hearted joke
at the expense of the Welsh.

Note that one is allowed, nay encouraged, to make fun of Christianity and the deeply held beliefs of billions, but a mild remark about a race of hairy caterwauling miners gets the paper closed down:

In the play, which was written by Terence McNally, an
American playwright, Jesus is portrayed as the homosexual son of an
alcoholic.
"At first it all sounded like something
from a Monty Python sketch, participants in a comedy portraying Jesus
as a gay son of an alcoholic are attacked by a not so merry band of
fundamentalist Christians from Wales," wrote Ms Kerr.
"It’s
almost beyond belief (apart from the fact that I have secretly
suspected the Welsh of evil doings ever since they spawned the
caterwauling Charlotte Church)."

The punishment also appears gruesome, in fact would not (or should not) be allowed in the US under the cruel and unusual punishment clause:

In retaliation for its supposedly racist comments, The
Saint was locked out of its offices by its landlord, the Students’
Association, for breaching its equal opportunities rules. In a memo to
the newspaper last week, the association said that it had been found
guilty of being "discriminatory against minority groups" following an
anonymous complaint.
The newspaper’s staff,
including Ms Kerr, who is a Scot studying for a degree in English, will
now have to pay to undergo "diversity awareness training", provided by
the university’s human resources department, before the association
will consider letting them back into their offices.

Imagine sensitive youngsters, mere undergraduates on Arts courses, being exposed to the full fury of diversity awareness training, oh, the horrors, the horrors.
One jobsworth who would fit in nicely with the more despicable parts of the left-liberal thought police is this guy:

Simon Atkins, the president of the Students’ Association, defended the
decision to bar The Saint from its offices, but declined to say how
many complaints he had received. "It is not our intention to stop The
Saint printing things that annoy people, " he said, adding that the
association had a duty to protect the rights of all student groups.

Sigh. Listen carefully you miserable litte gobshite. The association, and by implication yourself, do not have a duty to protect the rights of student groups at all. You have a duty to protect the rights of students. St Andrew’s was one of the homes of the Scottish Enlightenment and surely the quality of tutorials has not fallen so far that you do not know that free speech is the most basic and greatest of these rights?
Just for good measure the article adds a few recent comments by others which mock the Welsh, one of which I thought was genuinely witty:

In January last year, David Blunkett, the recent Home Secretary, was at
the centre of a race row after a joke about Colin Jackson, the Welsh
champion hurdler. Mr Blunkett, describing how ethnic minorities should
be encouraged to do well at work, said: "Colin Jackson succeeded,
despite being Welsh."

For those who don’t know, Jackson is of a rather duskier hue than the norm in these islands. Rather improves my view of Blunkers actually. Still an authoritarian determined to liberate us from liberty, but witty as well. Perhaps with more time on his hands he’ll come up with some more corkers?