While prime minister Gordon Brown was in Japan telling Brits to cut food wastage, the Japanese government were cutting down on energy wastage - by telling office workers to wear less clothes.

The idea is that if workers wear less in the summer, their employers will be able to turn down the air conditioning - effectively neutralising the global warming effect of Brown flying 14 hours across the world to speak nonsense.

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