Back in the 70s & 80s, Bianca Jagger used to fancy The Bean like mad and frequently called our US apartment declaring "this is Bianca". I always replied "Bianca who?", making her admit "Jagger" (she's just divorced Mick). This annoyed her like mad.

She gave this year's Longford Lecture and made this stupid but generally accepted statement (why can't intelligent people ever accept that sometimes people LIE or are mistaken. Not all claimed rapes are rapes)...


The culture of violence towards women and girls around the world is particularly commonplace in countries like India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China. But it is also not uncommon in the UK, Bianca Jagger told her audience. 'Last year in the UK around 60,000 women were raped, over 400,000 were sexually assaulted and 1.2 million suffered domestic abuse according to the Home Office. But, shockingly, the Crown Prosecution Service say, there were only 5,651 prosecutions for rape and 111,891 for domestic violence in England and Wales'.


Read the full story in this month's Inside Time (also carrying my letter to Baron Judge)...

www.insidetime.org/index.asp