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[puzzled272]

9ac. Man's inhumanity to man? (8)

?I?C?I??

5dn Pride possibly upset about ring getting to organise again (7)

R???O?P

Looks like REGROUP but can't figure the wordplay
(something to do with PURGER up about O perhaps?).
Any suggestions, please?

[turnerjmw]

9ac BIRCHING. Punishment used on Isle of Man

[turnerjmw]

5d REGROUP is right

Pride's Purge expelled 100 MPs from the House of Commons in 1648 because they dealt with Charles I.

Thomas Pride who led it was, thus, a PURGER. A bit obscure, I think

[puzzled272]

Many thanks turnerjmw for very complete answers; can move on to Schadenfreude now!

[turnerjmw]

You're most welcome. I should have mentioned that birching was condemned by the European Court of Human Rights in 1979, and finally removed from statute about 15 years later. Hence, I presume, the use of "inhumanity" in the clue