King of the UK uncut?

Working as a press office in my day job, I well know the desperation of journalists faced with the problem of coming up with a new angle on a story that has been running for days.

So well done, I think, to the Evening Standard for this take on the royal baby story:

Forget about the name of our future king. There is another delicate question that hasn’t been answered. Will the young Prince of Cambridge be circumcised?

This reminds me of a story I read the other day on Castle News - "Independent news for Bishop's Castle, Shropshire" - about Antony Lempert, a doctor who lives in the town and campaigns against the circumcision of baby boys for religious reasons.

He told the website:

“Research from Birmingham for example found that last year eleven baby boys under one were admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit of Birmingham Children’s Hospital with life-threatening complications such as infection or bleeding as a direct result of circumcision.”

I am pleased that the campaign against female genital mutilation now has such prominence, but it seems we should be concerned about the circumcision of boys too.