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The media spotlight is well and truly focused on MP’s and their expense claims this week, highlighting the jaw-dropping chasm between what is technically legal and what is moral and ethical. Watching some of these MP’s squirm as, one by one, they attempt to explain away their claims (sorry, ‘mistakes’) as the public mood darkens by the day merely serves to demonstrate the fragility of trust. Interesting to see David Cameron’s entreaty to his MP’s to lead by example and ‘pay back or get out’. After all, good leadership and trust is all about leading by example. Clever.
Anyway, politics aside – and not wishing to imply that politicians are in any way liars by the title of this post, good heavens above – Forbes.com features an article on liars, and how to spot them. I was interested to read how truth-tellers often back-track through their stories to fill in gaps or correct mistakes, whereas liars rarely do. When you’re next having a coffee break, put aside all worrying thoughts of fraudulent expense-claims, swine flu and how quickly the polar ice-cap is going to melt, and find out more about the tricks of the lying trade so you can more easily identify those who are guilty. We all are, apparently.