There’s a bizarre piece on the Miss World saga in, naturally, Monday’s Guardian. The key extract is as follows:

“As contestants flee to London, and Nigeria counts its dead, it is almost impossible to retain the idea that an annual parade of female flesh is just an innocent quest for universal beauty acceptable to all reasonable people.”

Eh? This doesn’t make much sense unless one believes that the murderous rioters in Nigeria were in some way “reasonable people”. Well, here’s an update: they weren’t.