I'm not a Torygraph reader, honest, but read this on the tube this afternoon, about arranged marriages.
The judge says two pretty amazing things:
"Lord McEwan, at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, added that the failed marriage was a case of ancient Eastern cultural and religious ethics clashing "with the spirit of 21st-century children" and Western ideas."
and
"Lord McEwan added: "At the time of these events they were both very young, especially Miss Sohrab. I am certain that each was wholly dominated by his or her respective parents, especially the mothers."These mothers were of a different generation and were both themselves in arranged marriages. No doubt they thought they were doing the best for their children.""
David Blunkett had a view on this recently. I think there's a world of difference between an arranged marriage and a forced marriage.
Just talked to my friend X, who self-describes as "terminally single and gay" (as opposed to terminally gay and single) who said he would welcome a more formal structure for meeting people. Mmm
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