The public sector was willing and ready to jump on the private whenever it thought it could claim something had been missold to the investing public. There were demands for compensation, reparations and confessions. The perpetrators had to face the wrath of the Regulators.        I do not expect there to be so much...

Over at the Mail on Sunday, Lib Dem transport minister Norman Baker talks about his own experiences of being on the wrong end of the Telegraph’s ‘sting’ operation, in which the paper targeted MPs’ constituency surgeries to entrap them into confessions of Coalition discord. Here’s an excerpt: Over the years, I have seen thousands of

Unauthorised accounts of life inside the lower reaches of the CPC appear occasionally on the Chinese internet and while they may or may not be authentic, they’re always a Sinosphere-wide smash. We’ve had the life of a crawling political worm...

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When they used to hang people at Tyburn the ceremonials were accompanied by a roaring trade in bogus deathbed confessions, hack ballads about the life and crimes of the condemned man, etc. Something similar goes on in China when famous...

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This is pretty much what we can expect from giving jihadis the same legal rights as American citizens and trying them in civilian court: A federal judge has tossed out most of the government's evidence against a tarrorism detainee on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. In a ruling this week, U.S. District Judge Thomas ...

In spite of the headline-seeking, drug-taking confessions, Andre Agassi’s autobiography offers a fascinating insight into the inner life of a sporting great.

Every so often Man in a Shed gets outnumbered by the females in his life, and is unable to watch science fiction movies under the excuse that they actually are just Pride and Prejudice, set in space. Christmas has been one of those occasions. So I was completed to watch "Confessions of a shopaholic". But to my great surprise its a highly moral movie. The urge to spend to make yourself happy is exp...

Allegations of 'parking ticket targets' are to be the subject of a Westminster City Council audit investigation, following concerns raised by Labour Councillors after the recent Channel 4 'Confessions of a Parking Warden' programme revealed that some parking wardens in Westminster said that they were under pressure to maximize the number of parking tickets they issue each day. ...