{"id":3311,"date":"2010-03-24T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2010-03-24T18:06:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:06:48","slug":"letter-to-new-humanist-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/letter-to-new-humanist-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to New Humanist magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sent via email, 14th July 2009:<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you for the latest issue of New Humanist<\/em> which is a great read as ever, only slightly let down by Fiona Russell-Powell\u2019s piece on Genesis P-Orridge<\/a>. Whilst I\u2019d be first in line to agree that Gen can be grumpy old sod, I don\u2019t think he deserves a hatchet job for refusing an interview.<\/p>\n

Leaving most of the snide gossip and factual errors in the article to one side, it seems curious that Russell-Powell omits the background to Genesis\u2019 family exiling themselves from the UK.<\/p>\n

The police raid on the P-Orridge household followed a sensationalist TV programme on \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d which falsely implied their involvement in child murder. The objectivity of the programme was called into question when defences of the P-Orridges were mounted from sources as diverse as Derek Jarman and The Mail On Sunday. The programme makers were revealed as evangelical Christians with their own axes to grind.<\/p>\n

I was surprised to read that Hackney social services had taken an interest in the incident as the family had been living in Brighton for a number of years when it happened. Needless to say, no charges were brought against the P-Orridges, who must therefore be included in the select group of victims of \u201csatanic panic\u201d in the UK. I imagine that this will be of some interest to New Humanist\u2019s<\/em> readership.<\/p>\n

I too was at the recent PTV gig in London and found the band to be on surprisingly good form. One of my friends had a brief chat with Genesis afterwards and remarked on how polite he was.<\/p>\n

John Eden<\/p>\n

Published in edited form<\/a> in the September\/October 2009 issue. My missive was awarded “Winning Letter” much to my amusement, but I am yet to receive my prize of six bottles of wine.<\/p>\n

Since writing the letter I have been made aware of this recording of an interview Fiona Russell-Powell did with the\u00a0Psychic TV\u00a0for The Face<\/em><\/a> in the early eighties. Her fascination with Charles Manson and the P-Orridge’s genital piercings seems to have diminished somewhat in the intervening years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sent via email, 14th July 2009: Thank you for the latest issue of New Humanist which is a great read as ever, only slightly let down by Fiona Russell-Powell\u2019s piece on Genesis P-Orridge. Whilst I\u2019d be first in line to agree that Gen can be grumpy old sod, I don\u2019t think he deserves a hatchet …<\/p>\n

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