THE SUICIDE OF THE WEST: Girls at risk of forced marriage and FGM in Sweden are being told to carry a spoon in their underwear.

Katarina Idegard, who is in charge of tackling honour-based violence in Sweden’s second biggest city Gothenburg, said girls should hide the spoons so that they would be taken off for questioning in private room where they could raise the alarm.

The spoons would trigger metal detectors as a last chance to get help, Ms Idegard said.

She said: “The spoon will trigger metal detectors when you go through security checks. You will be taken aside and you can then talk to staff in private.”

“It is a last chance to sound the alarm.”

To be fair, others were sounding that alarm quite a long time ago.

(Classical reference in headline.)