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Who's To Blame For Fake Memoirs? An editor says readers are at fault because they keep buying those books.

As a critic who's seen too many of them, I beg to differ. At @medium, I argue that publishers should do more to protect readers from scandals.

#Books #Medium #Writing #Memoir #Culture #Scandals #TheSaltPath

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Medium · Who’s To Blame For Fake Memoirs?An editor says you — the reader — are at fault because you keep buying them, but as a critic I beg to differ

#UK Pensioner, 82, convicted of unpaid car tax while in hospital for toe amputation

When prosecuted in scandal-hit #SingleJusticeProcedure, #secretive court, octogenarian wrote in to explain his medical woes, with copy of #hospital record

Not enough to avoid #criminal #conviction

#Elderly & #vulnerable are regularly harshly convicted over unpaid household bills a system dogged by #scandals where #magistrates sit in #private dealing with low-level criminal cases

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alojapan.com/1326373/japans-go Japan’s governing coalition likely to lose upper house election, exit polls show – 104.5 WOKV #business #elections #gender #GeneralNews #Japan #JapanNews #JapanPoliticsElectionIshibaParliamentVote #news #PoliticalAndCivilUnrest #politics #scandals #WorldNews TOKYO — (AP) — The governing coalition of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was on the verge of losing a majority in the smaller of Japan’s two parliamentary houses in a key election Su

alojapan.com/1325027/japans-pm Japan’s PM Ishiba faces uphill battle in upper house election with US tariffs and prices rising #123881327 #article #conservatism #elections #gender #GeneralNews #GovernmentPolicy #GovernmentPrograms #InternationalTrade #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #politics #scandals #WorldNews TOKYO — Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday’s upper house election, and a loss could worsen p