... Quickly to join the camp of victims of such über-political correctness is Asterix, of Asterix and Obelix fame. Illustrator Albert Uderzo celebrated his 80th birthday in April by offering his creation to the Defence for Children International. He figured that the brave Gaul from the 6th century BC, Asterix, would be a great brand ambassador.

It turns out that the Defence for Children International doesn’t think so. Asterix, it insists, is not representative of a multicultural society. A hero “resisting invaders” was a “bad choice” to defend a France “aspiring to a happy and peaceful coexistence of all its diverse groups”. And to drive home the point: Asterix is “too French” to represent a UN charter on children’s rights.

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... we smell a plot hatched by a Belgian who desperately wants the UN job: Tintin.