Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based international TV news network, has made a bad error by trying to enforce an overly conservative dress code on its female presenters.
It's no wonder that five of them have resigned in protest. Here are just two of the rules: hair must not fall down to shoulder level and tops "should not reveal more than two inches of the chest from the bottom of the neck where the two wishbones meet."
I am genuinely saddened that a broadcaster, which has been wrongly traduced down the years, should give further ammunition to its western critics, as I explain in my London Evening Standard column today.
