Carly Simon on turning down Donald Trump: 'I thought he was kind of repulsive' | Carly Simon
Carly SimonInterviewCarly Simon on turning down Donald Trump: 'I thought he was kind of repulsive'David Smith in BostonThe singer-songwriter talks candidly about her friendship with Jackie Onassis, being humiliated by Harvey Weinstein and why she has no time for the US president
Carly Simon somehow appears both brittle and unbreakable as she opens the door to her hotel room in Boston, Massachusetts, where a publicist hovers discreetly. She is wearing a blue sweater, blue jeans and a blue scarf and is smiling broadly.
Chris Riddell: highlights from my laureate log in pictures | Children's books
Chris Riddell: highlights from my laureate log – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email When Chris Riddell was crowned children’s laureate in June he began his campaign to get everyone drawing and doodling every day. To inspire us Chris has been publishing his daily drawings on his laureate log, and here he shares some of the highlights including meetings with Wise Wizard Gaiman – and drawing on the walls of libraries and bookshops
From a forest in Papua New Guinea to a floor in Sydney: how China is getting rich off Pacific timber
Tree trunks ready for loading at a port in Papua New Guinea. Photograph: Friedrich Stark/AlamyChina is the major buyer of wood from Pacific nations like PNG and Solomon Islands, which are implicated in illegal or unsustainable logging
Read more of our Pacific Plunder series here by Helen Davidson in TaipeiAn illegally logged tree, felled in the diminishing forests of Papua New Guinea, may well end up becoming floorboards in a Sydney living room, or a bookcase in a home in Seattle.
Id lost every bit of muscle: David Brooks on cancer and return to football | Bournemouth
Bournemouth This article is more than 8 months old‘I’d lost every bit of muscle’: David Brooks on cancer and return to footballThis article is more than 8 months oldBournemouth and Wales winger opens up on fears and tearsCelebrating promotion last season left him out of breathDavid Brooks has opened up on his recovery from cancer, with the Bournemouth and Wales winger admitting that football paled into insignificance as he fought back from stage-two Hodgkin lymphoma.
Michelangelo's snowman and other great lost works of art | Philip Hensher
OpinionArt This article is more than 9 years oldMichelangelo's snowman and other great lost works of artThis article is more than 9 years oldPhilip HensherThe Gaugin and Bonnard paintings that surfaced this week can no longer be feverishly imaginedMichelangelo once made a snowman. It's recorded by the art historian Giorgio Vasari that "one winter, when a great deal of snow fell in Florence, [Piero de' Medici] had him make in his courtyard a statue of snow, which was very beautiful"
Never show your kids weakness and other parenting myths, debunked
Parents and parentingIs screen time really that bad? Should you swear in front of your kids? And is it possible to undo your mistakes? Experts tackle the big parenting questions of our time
Don’t post pictures of your children online FALSE There’s a difference, says the psychotherapist Stella O’Malley, author of What Your Teen Is Trying to Tell You, between creating interesting content, and being an excessive over-poster – people who are posting almost every day, rather than just on special occasions or when something funny or cute is going on.
Nothing is too big to fail: Steve Toussaint on starring in the Game of Thrones prequel | Telev
TelevisionInterview‘Nothing is too big to fail’: Steve Toussaint on starring in the Game of Thrones prequelStuart HeritageHe’s gone from panto genie to the biggest show on TV. As he prepares to star in House of the Dragon, he talks fan racism, being papped and why we shouldn’t take the series’s success for granted
For years, Steve Toussaint has carved out a niche as one of television’s most reliably anonymous character actors.
Teenager found not guilty of raping his mother after she said it was just a dream | UK news
UK news This article is more than 8 years oldTeenager found not guilty of raping his mother after she said it was just a dreamThis article is more than 8 years oldMum retracted her rape allegation and blamed episode on her mental health issues and the stress of caring for her ‘difficult’ son
A teenager has been found not guilty of raping his mother as she slept after she told a jury she had dreamed the attack.
Why is Spam (that revolting tinned luncheon meat) called Spam? It sounds like it has something to do
SEMANTIC ENIGMASWhy is Spam (that revolting tinned luncheon meat) called Spam? It sounds like it has something to do with ham, but why the sp-? Carmen Lichi, London It's a contraction of spiced ham. The next question is why is unsolicited email called spam. DP Morgan, Amsterdam NL
Apparantly it is something to do with American war time cutbacks and SPiced hAM. I believe the name was coined in a competition at the factory which made it - out of what we do not know.
Alice, Darling and the importance of showing emotional abuse on screen
FilmThe new film starring Anna Kendrick is one of the few visual narratives to deftly handle the insidious effects of an emotionally abusive relationship
If not guided by an ominous score and a remarkable lead performance of brittle, jittery anxiety, it might take you a third of Alice, Darling, a new film starring Anna Kendrick as a woman in an emotionally abusive relationship, to realize something is wrong. Alice’s relationship with Simon (Charlie Carrick), a thirtysomething Toronto-based artist with a suave British accent, could seem innocuous on a clue-by-clue basis.