British comedian Sacha Baron who plays a fictional TV reporter called Borat has been invited by Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh first deputy foreign minister and a powerful son-in-law of President Nursultan Nazarbayev to go to Kazakhstan to see the truth for himself. No doubt the Kazakh authorities have invited the comedian TV reporter to show him that their country is not a nation of horse urine-drinking misogynists.

The Central Asian state’s Foreign Ministry threatened Cohen with legal action last year after he hosted an international music show as Borat, who arrived in an Air Kazakh propeller plane controlled by a one-eyed pilot clutching a vodka bottle. The Kazakh authorities shut down Cohen’s www.borat.kz site, prompting a move to a new homepage, www.borat.tv. Rather him than the Beetle who would be afraid of being boiled alive or something equally unpleasant.