Joseph Berke, ally of RD Laing and prime mover in the ‘anti-psychiatry’ and ‘anti-university’ movements – obituary
In the 1960s he dismissed pharmaceutical medicines as ‘chemical restraints’, but he had a hearty appetite for non-prescription drugs
In the 1960s he dismissed pharmaceutical medicines as ‘chemical restraints’, but he had a hearty appetite for non-prescription drugs
There was hardly a church or cloister in Spain which Robertson did not write about, helped by his wife Marie Thérèse, his manager and driver
He played 52 times for his country and reached the quarter-finals of the 1976 European Championship
After his 1988 Supreme Court win Flynt said: ‘If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it will protect all of you’
With Diana Ross and Florence Ballard, she rose from poverty in Detroit to become a member of the most famous girl group in the world
He established a fruitful dialogue with Mikhail Gorbachev and his ‘Shultz doctrine’ of preventative war influenced George W Bush in Iraq
Outstanding in the scrum, he excelled during lean years for England and played a part in one of the greatest tries of all time
After several years’ service below the sea’s surface, he took on cases including the Neptune Sapphire, which broke up under a monster wave
His reign on top of the world lasted only seven months, and his later life was dogged by bad luck and financial troubles
While his wider business career was successful, he was content to sustain losses in his literary endeavours
A gifted classical actor on stage, he was disdainful of his best-known film role, which he said he was ‘dying to send up’
He led the family firm through a period of transition, oversaw Cheltenham’s expansion, and was described as ‘a master of people’
A believer in press self-regulation, he negotiated new privacy rules at the PCC and helped to establish press councils around the world
Formal in manner but with a taste for adventure, he was the driving force behind the worldwide success of Cutty Sark Scotch whisky
Bird once took General Patton in his Mosquito at low level along the south coast to see the troops assembling for the Normandy landings
He cut an authoritative figure on screen, having come from a career as a diplomat that included service during the Cuban missile crisis
From an exposed position he directed men in an assault on Japanese machine-gun posts, and he was later ambushed by murderous dacoits
Combative and voluble, in 1976 she left her husband for the woman with whom she spent the rest of her life, but lost her seat in 1979
She impressed Charlie Chaplin while at drama school and went on to work with Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks and Mary Tyler Moore
With his scholarly interest in ragtime, Nichols deplored the baleful influence of the 1960s craze, ‘trad’, derived from New Orleans jazz