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Marie Stopes House in Whitfield Street near Tottenham Court Road was Britain s first family planning clinic after moving from its initial location in Holloway in 1925. / Kim Traynor, Wikimedia
Britain’s first birth control clinic was founded on March 17, 1921. Marie Stopes International, the abortion charity named after the founder of the clinic, marked the centenary four months ago when it changed its name to “MSI Reproductive Choices”. While it did this to disassociate itself from the group’s eugenic origins, it is doubtful if a mere name change can exorcise its history.
One hundred years ago, today, on March 17, 1921, Dr Marie Stopes and her husband, Humphrey Roe, opened the Mothers’ Clinic at 61 Marlborough Road in Holloway, London. It was the first birth control clinic in the British Empire.
Written and directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli
Miss Marx, an Italian-Belgian production written and directed by actress-filmmaker Susanna Nicchiarelli, concerns itself with the latter part of Eleanor Marx’s life from the death of her famous father, Karl Marx, in March 1883 to her own suicide in March 1898.
Miss Marx
The film covers certain aspects of Eleanor’s political and public activity, but it leans heavily toward an interest in her emotional life.
Miss Marx is strongly colored by the writer/director’s feminist outlook and tends to project that into (and impose it onto) the past.
Nicchiarelli’s work opens in 1883. Eleanor Marx (Romola Garai), known to her family as Tussy, eulogizes her father (“He died in harness, his intellect untouched”) at her parents’ shared grave in London. Eleanor soon meets playwright Edward Aveling (Patrick Kennedy) at a lecture he is delivering on the poet Percy Shelley (she and Aveling will later co-author a pamphlet on the subject,
If the art s maniacal, I m maniacal : Phil Spector, in 1966
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NB. This piece first ran in February 2003, and has been republished following the death of Phil Spector, aged 81 I have not been well, says Phil Spector, choosing his words carefully. I was crippled inside. Emotionally. Insane is a hard word. I wasn t insane, but I wasn t well enough to function as a regular part of society, so I didn t. I chose not to. He pauses. I have devils inside that fight me.
The classical music that has been playing throughout our conversation ebbs and flows. Sibelius, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms. Spector is responsible for producing some of the greatest pop music ever made: Be My Baby by the Ronettes; You ve Lost That Lovin Feelin by the Righteous Brothers; River Deep - Mountain High by Ike & Tina Turner; Imagine by John Lennon; My Sweet Lord by George Harrison. But he no longer listens to those songs.
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For a uniform society, adultery must be decriminalised in the Armed Forces as well, argues Sumit Paul
The Army is an extension of society and its personnel are no different from civilians when it comes to desire
More than two years after the Supreme Court decriminalised adultery by declaring Section 497 of the IPC unconstitutional, the Centre has moved the Supreme Court with a plea that the historic verdict shouldnât apply to the Armed Forces, as it may cause instability among personnel who stay away from family.
The question is: Why shouldnât the decriminalisation of adultery be applicable to the armed forces as well? First of all, itâs imperative to understand the import of the term âadulteryâ. Derived from the Greek root â