An excellent piece.

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A tip of the hat to Gary Costanza of AVfM for linking to this (video, 9:06).

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A reminder that we maintain a playlist of materials relating to MGM on our YouTube channel. There are 34 items there currently, we’ll add today’s interview with Julia Hartley-Brewer in due course.

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Enjoy (video, 38:03).

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Julia Hartley-Brewer is by some margin my favourite radio interviewer – always well-prepared, and willing to have an open discussion. She’ll be interviewing me about MGM on her online TalkRadio show after 11:30 today – here.

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Our thanks to Tim for this piece in the Daily Mail. The comments are worth reading. Only 10 comments are shown, surely a small proportion of the total, given that some have 700+ upvotes.

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A tip of the hat to Richard Duncker of Men Do Complain for this (video, 1:48:57 – 1:53:35), broadcast earlier today. The piece will be available on iPlayer for 29 days, we’ll be putting the extract on our YouTube channel in due course.

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Our thanks to HEqual and others for pointing out that the BBC has responded promptly to complaints about its error concerning the legality of MGM. However, in typical BBC fashion, rather than publishing the truth, it has replaced the error with a misleading point. Hequal has pointed us to the News Sniffer record, showing this amendment:

According to the British Medical Association, male circumcision in the UK is generally assumed to be lawful provided there is valid consent.

Since when is the BMA a legal authority? And while it’s true that ‘male circumcision in the UK is generally assumed… valid consent’, that general assumption is manifestly and demonstrably WRONG.

The BBC article now has a link to the BMA website section Law and ethics of male circumcision which starts off encouragingly:

Circumcising male babies and children at a parent’s request is an increasingly controversial area and there are strongly opposing views about circumcision in society and within the BMA membership.

The BMA Ethics Committee is reviewing its position in this area, and is expected to produce revised guidelines next year.

Our thanks to the people who took the trouble to contact the BBC.

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Enjoy (video, 42:32).

Possibly the most highly-anticipated talk at ICMI17 was that of Mark Latham, which kicked off the final day. Mark Latham is a former Australian politician who was the leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from December 2003 to January 2005. He led the party at the 2004 federal election. For some time he hosted Outsiders, an Australian television news and commentary programme broadcast weekly on Sky News Australia, and now hosts Mark Latham’s Outsiders. We had a very amicable conversation.

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Our thanks to HEqual for this, a BBC piece. The error:

Male circumcision is legal in the UK if both parents consent.

With reference to non-therapeutic male circumcision – the focus of the article – that statement is manifestly untrue. HEqual writes:

I’ve archived the article here, mainly because the sidebar shows it’s currently the second most popular article on the entire BBC website: https://archive.fo/76kqf

I’ve also submitted a correction complaint to the BBC, taking issue with the sentence that states “Male circumcision is legal in the UK if both parents consent.”

Perhaps you (and all your readers) would like to submit a correction too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/contact-us/editorial

I’ve just sent the following to that URL, and would ask you to send your own request for a correction to be made. It will only take seconds, no need to register. Thanks.

I lead the political party ‘Justice for Men & Boys’ and there is a manifest error in the above article, “Male circumcision is legal in the UK if both parents consent”. Non-therapeutic male circumcision (the focus of the article) is at least Actual Bodily Harm under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, and probably Grievous Bodily Harm.

As you report, the doctor in the Nottingham case about which you’re reporting – Dr Balvinder Mehat – has been arrested on suspicion of Grievous Bodily Harm with Intent. It would require a parliamentary override to make non-therapeutic male circumcision legal, and that has never existed.

Earlier this week I took out a private prosecution against Dr Joseph Spitzer, charging him with ABH under OAPA 1861. I hope you will correct your article forthwith, and I should be happy to have these comments published. Thank you.

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