Yoshiro Mori, was forced to apologise after characterising female committee members as unduly talkative. It was a comment that set back the cause of equal opportunities in Japan, where Mr Mori, a former prime minister, is already fending off considerable local opposition to this summer’s Olympic Games.
Closer to home, and rather further down the pay scale, the popular depiction of local government officers as tinpot dictators was given an all-too-vivid virtual update after a video emerged of a Cheshire council meeting, conducted over Zoom in December 2020, descending into ill-tempered chaos.
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