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British Museum meme telling women to 'walk around looking confused' to meet men at Roman army exhibition sparks sexism row, writes RICHARD EDEN

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: George Osbourne finds himself presiding over yet another controversy at the 270-year-old London institution, this time over alleged sexism.

The post was a light-hearted reference to a recent social media trend in which women share clips of themselves expressing bewilderment at how often the men in their lives think about the Roman Empire – in some cases, more often than sex. 'Unrelenting fascist imagery and sexism dolloped on top,' fumes Dr Claire Millington, a visiting research Fellow at King's College London and former excavator on Channel 4's Time Team. Dame Darcey Bussell won millions of new admirers when she became a judge on Strictly Come Dancing, but her fellow former principal of the Royal Ballet, Carlos Acosta, won't be following in her dainty footsteps.

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