For years Sorokin passed herself off as ‘Anna Delvey’, a German heiress worth $60m. Today she will be sentenced in New York and faces up to 15 years in prison. Hadley Freeman discusses how Sorokin was eventually exposed and why her case has attracted so much attention. Plus: Helen Pidd on the inequality between London and the rest of England. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus