Magic used in a series of pilot experiments conjured up by magicians, therapists and researchers at Guy’s Hospital London.

A Sotheby’s executive yesterday told how she felt ‘violated’ after being seduced out of £800,000 by a benefits-claiming conman posing as a Goldman Sachs billionaire.

Superbly convincing con trick based on simple idea….

The most remarkable trick Derren Brown has pulled off is to turn a quiet boy unsure of his identity into one of TV’s greatest showmen

What has made Brown such a paragon for modern magicians is not his effects which, from a conjurer’s point of view, are certainly no more extraordinary than an Annemann or Thurston, but the way he dresses them in the irresistibly credible and contemporary beliefs that we hold to be self-evident.

How did a quiet anthropologist infiltrate Paris’s secretive Magic Circle?

Psychic Sally Morgan hears voices from the other side (via a hidden earpiece) Evidence ‘Britain’s best-loved psychic’ Sally Morgan may not be all she seems is unlikely to deter her fans, writes Chris French in The Guardian

One man’s astonishing story of how magic skills helped him survive the horrors of a Japanese POW camp.

The magicians Laura London and Russell Levinson performed incredible feats of prestidigitation and since some of Laura’s magic involved balls of fire, Daunts showed admirable restraint in not pointing out the obvious dangers to their combustible stock.

Cold Reading is the secret discipline behind the art of phoney fortune telling, of faking talking to the dead, of voicing the impossible and convincing the gullible. I works by making a little knowledge go a long way. But, my friends, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing…