Earth-shattering news: women are not to blame

THE backpackers who got naked on the sacred mountain in Borneo aren’t a great advert for the phenomenon we call ‘gap year’.

It’s not like the British woman arrested was uneducated — she has a masters in aeronautics (no, sorry, no idea), but appeared clueless about cultural good manners. Not just her, of course — there were ten of them. Ten backpacking numpties.

It’s unlikely they meant offence, but that’s irrelevant — if you are adult enough to travel, you are adult enough to be culturally respectful. Nobody likes their sacred places to be peed on by naked tourists — try it at the Alamo, or or St Patrick’s Cathedral, and see what happens. Also, much of the world is easily freaked out by nudity.