Saturday 28 February 2015

FGM Podcast by the Institute of Ideas

In this podcast I argue that the panic stirred up around 'Female Genital Mutilation' (FGM) has prompted a witch-hunt against doctors and parents.

Listen here

Thursday 5 February 2015

The FGM show trail: This case should never have come to court


The trial that exposed how unhinged anti-FGM crusading has become.

A jury in the UK found Dr Dhanuson Dharmasena not guilty of carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM) on a newly delivered young mother. Another man was cleared of abetting Dr Dharmasena. The jury of 12 concluded, in less than 30 minutes, that the evidence offered by the prosecution, representing the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), was wholly lacking in conviction. All I can say is: three cheers for juries!

Read what I wrote in full here