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Many of us have come to see our elected representatives as scheming mendacious conmen with all the integrity of a four-year-old high on Sunny Delight. It is heartening to see the emergence of a very human hashtag, #edano_nero on Twitter.

It means Edano sleep and is aimed at Yukio Edano who has become the public face of the Japanese government making frequent TV announcements to the stricken country. I find it very moving that in the midst of so much fear, destruction and worry that the work of this politician can be recognised.

Now as for the rest of them…