The world is under threat again...

Erm, yeah.

When I read the rather bizarre headline Police investigate 'Nazi' gnome I thought here we go again - yet another piece on poor old Bernie Ecclestone.

But no.

It turns out the furore is about a garden gnome created for an exhibition by a Nuremberg-based artist, Ottmar Hörl - who maintains that like many other pieces of art the little man with his right arm outstretched is simply a parody designed to mock rather than celebrate the Third Reich.

The Nazi Zwerg. I am actually surprised that nobody has noticed that it looks a little like Eugene Terre'Blanche.

Whether one chooses to believe the artist or not, this is yet another rather boring tale of people getting into a merry flap about this now rather dull issue. If the gnome had been baring his behind or copulating with a ceramic duck, it would have been lauded by the so-called critics as a witty piece of modern irony with a rather twee twist. Or something.

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