Britain made female genital mutilation a criminal offence in the 1980s. Later we said it was illegal for parents to take their children abroad for the ‘procedure’. Yet although thousands of British girls are the victims of wounding with intent, the CPS has not instigated one prosecution, let alone secured a conviction.
It is a harrowing read – the description of
how FGM is practised is horrific.
Matt Nolan complains
that Rob Hosking goes too
far.
A guide to the music of Pierre
Boulez.
A.D. Miller, author of Snowdrops, talks
about London novels, some of them by Martin Amis.
The madness
of my brother-in-law.
What would a mole of moles look like?
In the July Uncut Dr John (not online) remembers Jimi Hendrix this way:
I liked him. I first knew Jimi when he was playing in Little Richard’s band. Jimi was real special to the guitar like John Coltrane was to the saxophone. Certain people will take an instrument further, and will open the door for people to go through and go different directions.
He wasn’t an easy person to know – I got to know him more because girls that sang back-up for me made vests and clothes for him. When he was loose, he got looser. I worried about him because one day we were playing a gig in Quebec, and the promoter had run off with all the money. Jimi came offstage, and his ears and his nose was bleeding. He’d been kneeling in front of his amplifier – it’s not a good sign. I told him something about it – but I don’t even know if he could hear me.
So here is Jimi Hendrix and the Band of
Gypsys live at the Fillmore on New Year’s Eve 1970 with “Who Knows”:
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Re: FGM - race trumps gender and justice, once again.
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