Private Eye hack, author of Post Mortem
(@privateeyenews.bsky.social), Bean Counters (Atlantic, 2018), The Great Tax Robbery (OneWorld, 2013). Co-founder @taxwatch.bsky.social.
Richard Brooks
Review of Post Mortem in Socialist Lawyer magazine: “Brooks brilliantly exposes how the whole Post Office scandal was fed by commercial interests put above the lives of its employees…”
New @privateeyenews.bsky.social reveals biggest payday yet for businessmen given the deal of the century by Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen. Will take their investment-free return to >£500m. Buy the mag to find out how.
In @privateeyenews.bsky.social In the Money - how Barclays’ income from helping fund Israel government continues to grow….
Tees for Two. The @privateeyenews.bsky.social story of how a couple of businessmen are trousering £400m+ from a data centre deal at the heart of a publicly-funded regeneration scheme in which they have invested nothing is available to read online…
www.private-eye.co.uk/in-the-back
As Harborne pours more money into Reform U.K., reminder from @privateeyenews.bsky.social of his influence…
In @privateeyenews.bsky.social, chance to read online, how the Post Office and its dismal ‘partners’ WH Smith and now TGJones spoil government ambitions to revive the High Street…
www.private-eye.co.uk/in-the-back
Full story on the deal of the century in the new Private Eye, out now.
Commercial terms agreed in principle for a new data centre on the south bank of the River Tees show how the publicly funded regeneration of one of the UK’s most deprived regions has turned into a half-a-billion-pounds-plus enrichment scheme for a couple of local businessmen.
World Cup fever mounts!
The new Private Eye is out now.
Amazing and infuriating story about the taxpayer being ripped off in Teesside, revealed by Richard Brooks @rbrooks45.bsky.social in the latest Private Eye magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social
