Why not also revert to flogging, birching, amputation and so on. |
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Nobody came up with anything, except Margaret Curran, who wanted birching brought back for the parents of neds who breached their anti-social behaviour orders. |
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The birching is designed to restore the circulation. |
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In 1961 she went against the Conservative Party's official position by voting for the restoration of birching as a judicial corporal punishment. |
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Even a mass birching at the public school failed to exterminate truancy. |
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