Oliver Bullough
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Redwood by Ben Macintyre review – a superbly wrought tale of cold war defection - AOL (opens the original)
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Ben Macintyre uses the acronym MICE to describe the reasons people betray their countries: Money, Ideology, Coercion or Ego. In the set-piece that opens his latest work of true-espionage, we discover a new reason: erectile dysfunction. Stressed, drinking too much, under constant surveillance, furious about the corruption of his colleagues and frustrated with his home life, the KGB’s Vladimir Kuzichkin is offering to betray the secrets of his homeland and its Iranian allies, if only a British doc
The other Post Office scandal: how organised crime launders money on the high street (opens the original)
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Hundreds of millions of pounds of dirty money are being deposited at post offices every year. So why are the police reluctant to investigate the scale of the problem? Last chance to buy the summer issue of The Long Read magazine, now with 15% off. Click here to order Leicestershire police won’t say who first told them about Jigar Gheewala, but you can see why, once they had heard of him, they decided to find out more. Gheewala was unemployed, had no apparent income, yet lived in a £1.3m house an
The other Post Office scandal: how organised crime launders money on the high street - AOL (opens the original)
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Leicestershire police won’t say who first told them about Jigar Gheewala, but you can see why, once they had heard of him, they decided to find out more. Gheewala was unemployed, had no apparent income, yet lived in a £1.3m house and sent his three children to private school. “He was a declared bankrupt, with a bank account that was absolutely not reflective of what it should be,” said financial crime supervisor Laura Panter of Leicestershire police’s economic crime team. “That was our starting
The Ego Trip by Kimon de Greef review â a bizarre tale of psychedelic toads and hair-raising treatments (opens the original)
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A journalist investigates the unsettling world of a charismatic shaman and the people who trusted him Which, in your opinion, is the worst current cultural trend: social media influencers; unregulated wellness practitioners; macho manosphere posturers; psychedelic bores; cultural appropriators? The good news is that, with Octavio Rettig, the central character in Kimon de Greefâs The Ego Trip, you donât have to choose between them. Heâs all five wrapped into one objectionable package, and
The Ego Trip by Kimon de Greef review – a bizarre tale of psychedelic toads and hair-raising treatments - AOL (opens the original)
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Which, in your opinion, is the worst current cultural trend: social media influencers; unregulated wellness practitioners; macho manosphere posturers; psychedelic bores; cultural appropriators? The good news is that, with Octavio Rettig, the central character in Kimon de Greef’s The Ego Trip, you don’t have to choose between them. He’s all five wrapped into one objectionable package, and so much more besides. The tale begins with the Sonoran desert toad, an improbable amphibian that spends most
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