For the most part, our lives are run and our views are formed by chancers, cheats and charlatans.
Related: The 'choices' facing women who want children | Letters from Dr Geeta Nargund and others Contrary to how it's often depicted in the press, there is nothing of the "cheats option" to a c-section, unless you count being sliced in half as a walk in the park.
The robbery itself unfolds in layers and layers of scams and fake-outs, passing out myriad red herrings to both victims and viewers, but never cheats our expectations or falls into predictability.
The most popular of these "cheats" was the royal licence.
Even reformed dope cheats are not considered beyond the pale.
First of all, unless Cain senior was trying (and apparently failing) to teach his kids a lesson about the arbitrary nature of authority, what kind of parent cheats in order to win a race against his own children?
It was to play the neighbour who sneaks on the person who is caught out in the government ad about benefit cheats.
It may seem a bit mean, because there's nowhere else for these people to go, but it's easy to get the public on side, by shouting the magic words "benefit cheats", "illegal immigrants" and "hard-working homeowners".
"If Iran cheats, the world will know it," he said.
Anti-EU politicians have turned them into cheats and thieves.
The brave proverbs with which we were brought up – the truth will out, cheats never prosper, virtue will triumph – turn out to be unfounded.
