Are psychopaths really that good at lying?

When many of us think of psychopaths, we picture ruthless, callous murderers like Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Could you be happily married to someone like that? You might be smitten b

You might expect to encounter a psychopath in a law office or managing a hedge fund, or perhaps in an operating theatre. Law, finance and medicine are often seen as favourable professions for those wh

How many of your favourite scary movies may have inspired fiction to become reality? We investigate…

“Welcome to the 19th century,” began Jeremy Harte, introducing the Folklore Society’s Legendary Weekend examining ‘Lying in Legend and Tradition’. Gathering at Carlisle’s Tullie House Museum over 6-7

w hether or not we have free will is a question philosophers have been debating for millennia. In the early 1980s, there was a brief moment when it appeared the debate may finally have been settled. T

It’s been a while since the furore over the December 2025 release of the so-called Epstein Files, or at least some of them. And then only some of some of them. Yes, I’m talking about the great redacti