Volpone is a theatrical fable, populated by ciphers, a morality play: greed corrupts. It’s a timeless theme that’s clearly resonant right now, something the Humble players are hoping to play on. Ben Jonson’s play deals in types and an elaborate conman’s plot. It’s a game …
Image by kaytethinks Despite being in the September of their years, a group of pensioners have been convicted for running an elaborate, multi-million pound counterfeiting operation out of a residential house in Chiswick. The gang, whose average age is 60, set up an impressive hierarchical …
In today’s tale of Olympic overspend: it seems a clutch of consultants, hired to wrestle the budgetary reigns and keep costs under control, have trousered some £87 million in the process. According to a government report, the consortium CLM, a regular Olympic opportunist which has …
