Kirk, the high-profile 31-year-old conservative commentator and activist, was shot dead on Wednesday by a sniper while speaking to a large crowd at a university in the U.S. state of Utah.

Craw in the idiom “stick in someone’s craw”, you see, refers to the stomach or pouch of a bird. The craw of a chicken, for example, is where it temporarily stores food. The craw is located right down ...