barbaric

Rachel Reeves, now chancellor, also condemned the policy as "barbaric".

Some suffered ongoing pain or urinary complications after “this barbaric and entirely unnecessary form of female genital mutilation,” the lawsuit said.

It is not just that the practice is barbaric.

Metson murdered Holly in an act that police have described as "barbaric" - stabbing her multiple times before he dismembered her body into more than 200 pieces and disposed of them in the River Witham.

But McAvoy makes clear this "simplistic, selfish, fundamental approach to life" is, to him, ultimately "unrealistic... and barbaric".