Fraud
The urgent need to fix voter fraud
New Jersey officials just admitted that roughly 6,600 non-citizens were illegally registered to vote between 2023 and 2024. More than 400…
Only cheats fear the SAVE Act
David Axelrod, Barack Hussein Obama’s chief strategist, was clearly worried about Donald Trump’s prime time speech about election integrity last…
Trump looks like a spent force
Pete Hegseth has announced that the US military will test soldiers over 30-years old for low testosterone. But judging by…
Southern Gothic: the horror story of Alex Murdaugh, paterfamilias and ‘family annihilator’
James Lasdun attempts to fathom what drove an apparently respectable, caring South Carolina lawyer to slaughter his wife and youngest son
The tawdry shenanigans of the Southern Poverty Law Center
In the financial world, most frauds are short-lived. Ponzi schemes such as Bernie Madoff’s eventually run out of new suckers…
Is this the denouement of the 2020 election?
Where is it that the chickens go to roost? If you said “home,” you don’t quite get it. The correct…
Dr. Oz’s war on Armenian medical fraud
As Gangs of New York showed us, those who’ve settled in America have a tendency to bring Old World grudges over with…
America’s Somalis and the ‘learing’ explosion
I suspect that Somalis around the country – especially, but not exclusively, in Minneapolis – wish about now that they…
The Somali fraud scandal is a turning point
I suspect that Somalis around the country – especially, but not exclusively, in Minneapolis – wish about now that they…
Deception by stealth: the scammer’s long game
Swindled out of almost $100,000, Johnathan Walton warns of the insidious strategies lasting years of the really determined con artist
A marriage of inconvenience: The Bride Stone, by Sally Gardner, reviewed
His capricious father’s will leaves a young English doctor needing to find a wife within two days and seven hours of his return home from revolutionary France
Alzheimer’s research is challenging enough without a data manipulation scandal
Two cases of scientific fraud and cover-up are brought to light by Charles Piller, with serious consequences for the Alzheimer’s field in the US
Magnetic and manipulative – the enigma of Gala Dali
Countless people apparently found her fascinating, but apart from being shrewd, scary, intelligent and very beady about money, it’s hard to see why
The crude tirades of Cicero the demagogue
Far from being a crusader for virtue, the Roman statesman is seen as a violent firebrand, disregarding the law when it suited him and laying the groundwork for Julius Caesar’s assassination
Conning the booktrade connoisseurs
Fuelled by loathing and resentment, Thomas James Wise set about defrauding as many privileged bibliophiles as he could – only to be rumbled by two of their number
The lady vanishes
This is a depressing book. It’s a reminder of everything that is sick, broken and generally maledicted about the human…
Letters
Don’t ban Russia’s culture Sir: It is uncouth, illiterate and actually beneficial to Putin when theatres, opera houses and other…
Daylight robbery
Why won’t banks help fraud victims like my daughter?
The fall guy
Tom Hayes, Libor and a miscarriage of justice
The great pretender
It’s 1993 and you’re studying at a top agricultural college with a bright future ahead of you, perhaps in farming…
Tough old world
Like a basking shark, Val McDermid once remarked, a crime series needs to keep moving or die. The same could…
An isolated misfit
Why did W.G. Sebald risk his reputation by telling such strange, repeated lies, wonders Lucasta Miller
The man who wasn’t there
Craig Brown describes his various encounters with the MP who notoriously faked his own death in 1974
Barometer
Last orders The new tier restrictions have made life difficult for pubs. How many are closed? — According to the…
Beggaring belief
Eight centuries ago in Turkey, at a gathering of intellectuals, a Muslim sultan insisted that one of his courtiers write…
