You may have guessed from the title that I’m about to mock a pair of news stories from Britain.

First, we have the apotheosis of the oh-cripes-I’m-frightened state:

• Police say UFO was just the moon (The Beeb)

Control Room: “South Wales Police, what’s your emergency?”

Caller: “It’s not really. I just need to inform you that across the mountain there’s a bright stationary object.”

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Control: “Alpha Zulu 20, this object in the sky, did anyone have a look at it?”

Officer: “Yes, it’s the moon. Over.”

Well, you never know.  Better safe than sorry and all that, right?

Next, we have the apotheosis of the — dare I say it? — politically correct state:

• Toddlers who dislike spicy food racist (Telegraph.co.uk)

The National Children’s Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.

This could include a child of as young as three who says “yuk” in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.

These people have far too much time and far too much money on their hands.  I can’t credibly imagine a toddler with perfectly cosmopolitan taste in food.  Hell, I’d wager that the vast majority of people — including the sanctimonious meatshits at the National Children’s Bureau — are going to turn their noses up at certain “unfamiliar foreign” dishes: lutefisk, for instance, or perhaps the more pungent varieties of kimchi.  That doesn’t make them racist, it just makes them… individuals.

Heaven forfend.