If you haven’t heard of LGBT by now, you must be living under a rock. L stands for lesbian; G stands for gay, meaning homosexual; B stands for bisexual. The actress Amber Heard is bisexual, but if a dude tells you he is bisexual, he really means homosexual. The T stands for trans, meaning delusional […]
2000: Nine doctors and others publish a letter in the Daily Telegraph warning of the “Physical dangers of unnatural sex” and appealing against lowering the age of consent for homosexual acts to sixteen to protect teenage boys. Their warning falls on deaf ears. 2002: Not content with the British Parliament lowering the age of consent […]
Charlotte Proudman is a barrister. She calls herself a feminist and always styles herself Dr Charlotte Proudman to make sure we all know how clever she is. Moira Donegan is a so-called journalist. Recently, they held a wide-ranging discussion on subjects as varied as rape, Andrea Dworkin, Amber Heard, and trans rights. Before discussing that […]
Three high profile American women have been in the news recently for disparate reasons; all three probably wish they weren’t. Brittney Griner’s troubles have been well-documented. One can argue that the 9 year sentence she received for that drug misadventure at Moscow airport was manifestly excessive – as indeed it was, but one cannot argue […]
This will obviously be a long list but at the top must be the Queen of England. Known to most people as simply The Queen, she held the record for the longest marriage of any royal anywhere – seventy-three years with her late husband; she was the longest serving monarch in British history, clocking up […]
The covid lockdowns coupled with the extension of live streaming on YouTube, and now on other platforms, has led to a massive increase in a certain type of streaming, in particular legal punditry. Most of the lawyers concerned, but by no means all, are American, and by the same token most of the commentary concerns […]
Two recent court cases involving women are still in the news today; the women concerned are Amber Heard and Emma-Jayne Magson. The former was a civil case, a defamation action brought by Heard’s ex-husband Johnny Depp. Because Depp is an A List actor and Heard a fairly big star in her own right, the trial […]
On June 1, Johnny Depp won his defamation action against his ex-wife Amber Heard. The entire trial was broadcast live on the Internet, and the verdict is universally considered a total vindication for Depp. The details are complicated but briefly, the jury found for Depp on every single part of the claim, most significantly that […]
Johnny Depp may be an A List actor and wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice, but fame and fortune often go hand in hand with misery. By his own admission, Depp has abused both alcohol and recreational drugs. Along with serial relationships/marriages, this is rather common among artists of all kinds, partly because of their often peripatetic lifestyle, and, well, you know how it is, creative people are often weird. Depp isn’t only an actor, he is also a talented musician. Like all of us he has made mistakes, and his biggest mistake appears to have been marrying Amber Heard.
