Amber Heard 'placing faith in justice' as Depp lawyer calls her an abuser | Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp This article is more than 3 years oldAmber Heard 'placing faith in justice' as Depp lawyer calls her an abuserThis article is more than 3 years oldHigh court hears closing remarks in three-week libel case exposing couple’s relationship
Amber Heard has spoken of her trauma at reliving the breakup of her marriage, saying she is “placing her faith in British justice” as Johnny Depp’s lawyer branded her a “compulsive liar” and the “abuser” in the couple’s relationship.
David Hockneys $90.3m painting reminds us what great art looks like | Jonathan Jones
David Hockney’s 1972 painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) was sold at Christie’s for $90.3m. Photograph: David Hockney/APDavid Hockney’s 1972 painting Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) was sold at Christie’s for $90.3m. Photograph: David Hockney/APOpinionDavid Hockney This article is more than 5 years oldDavid Hockney’s $90.3m painting reminds us what great art looks likeThis article is more than 5 years oldJonathan JonesThe record-breaking Portrait of an Artist, painted in 1972, speaks from the heart.
Mating by Norman Rush review
FictionReviewRush's quirky 1991 novel highlights the disjunction between ideals and realities at a women-only utopia in the KalahariNelson Denoon, intellectual ideologue and founder of Tsau, an experimental women-only utopia in the Kalahari, has all the hallmarks of the thinking woman's crumpet. He is a man whose very dreams are "noetic", and, as such, is the infinitely worthy study of the novel's narrator, an American anthropologist in her 30s who gradually insinuates herself into his bed.
Morbid love
ArtReviewWhat drove John Ruskin, leading art critic of the Victorian era, to madness? Philip Hoare has found the answer in a collection of long-lost lettersIn a recently discovered sketch, Rose La Touche, the 24-year-old lover of John Ruskin, lies on her death bed. Her hair is spread out on the pillow like some latter-day Medusa; her eyes stare at the artist - her fitfully requited inamorata - from a gaunt, pale face.
Ronald Allison obituary | Monarchy
MonarchyObituaryRonald Allison obituaryJournalist who as the Queen’s press secretary revamped the royal family’s old-fashioned approach to the mediaWhen in the early 1970s the monarchy decided that an image revamp was required, the man it turned to for help was Ronald Allison, who became the Queen’s press secretary. Allison, who has died aged 90, was at the time what the BBC still quaintly described as its court correspondent, and what less reverent observers called Gold Microphone in Waiting.
Three jailed over murder of former Miss Venezuela and British ex-husband | Venezuela
Venezuela This article is more than 9 years oldThree jailed over murder of former Miss Venezuela and British ex-husbandThis article is more than 9 years oldMonica Spear and Thomas Berry were attacked after their car broke down at night in central Venezuela in JanuaryThree men who confessed to the murder of a former Miss Venezuela and her British ex-husband have each been sentenced to at least 24 years in jail.
Cory Wells obituary | Pop and rock
Pop and rockObituaryCory Wells obituarySinger and musician who co-founded the American band Three Dog NightCory Wells, who has died aged 74, was a founder member of the pop vocal trio Three Dog Night. Despite never being the band of choice for hip insiders, they enjoyed huge chart success in the late 60s and early 70s, scoring 21 consecutive Top 40 singles in the US between 1969 and 1975, including three No 1 hits.
Experience: I was trapped in a nine-inch crevice
ExperienceLife and style'I'd been trapped for five hours and no longer expected to make it out alive. But I wasn't prepared to give up either'One Sunday last year, eight of us hiked for a couple of hours through the desert near San Diego to reach Thunder Canyon Cave. We had to abseil through a waterfall to get inside, so we put on our wetsuits and lowered ourselves 30ft down. By 11am we were inside.
Pegas reborn: Romania's communist bicycle returns with oomph and style
Bike blogEnvironmentA proletariat era symbol gets a modern makeover as a nostalgic nation warms up to its iconic bike brand In communist Romania, almost every child had a Pegas bicycle. In a country cut off from the outside world, the state-owned company’s distinctive bikes were all people knew. However, with the violent end of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s reign in 1989, all that changed.
Foreign brands flooded in, and Romanians ditched their Pegas bikes along with other vestiges of the communist-era, and the company shut its last production lines in 2001.
Section 28 protesters 30 years on: We were arrested and put in acell up by Big Ben
LGBTQ+ rightsIn May 1988, the reviled law that forbade ‘promoting’ homosexuality came into force. Here, some of those who made headlines fighting back – from invading the BBC News studio to abseiling into the House of Lords – explain why they had to act
Lesbians stormed the BBC to protest about it. Twenty thousand Mancunians took to the city streets to march against it. Ian McKellen came out as gay to fight it.