@PrivateEyeNews hack, author of Post Mortem (Private Eye 2025), Bean Counters (Atlantic 2018) and The Great Tax Robbery (Oneworld 2013). Co-founder @taxwatch.
Joined December 2010
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I’m moving over to the other place, similar @rbrooks45 account. Do follow there if you can… thanks.
Email in the Epstein Files belies Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s account of the tax-efficient structuring of his and brother Christian’s One Hyde Park Development - an account given to HMRC and in court. Story in new @PrivateEyeNews, In the Money section.
Link to illuminating discussion IT professionals about how the industry responds to the Horizon scandal. Thanks to @WCITLivery @ArchivesIT
archivesit.org.uk/horizon-le…
If you're around Birmingham in a couple of weeks, do come along to @1000TradesJQ to hear me talk about Post Mortem, my book on the Post Office scandal. ("A concise, clear and seethingly but suppressedly angry book" - @thetimes)
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Just finished reading Post Mortem which is a must read. A first class account of the Post Office Horizon scandal by @rbrooks45. I really didn't fully understand the extent of this disgraceful episode till I read this book.
private-eye.co.uk/books/post…
More Tees… yet another major porkie exposed, as the taxpayer coughs up for a £113m quay that Lord Houchen said local businessmen (making £100ms from land deals it brings) were paying for. Full story in current @PrivateEyeNews
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Chapter 15 of "Post Mortem" has a full cast list; heroes aside, the bad & very bad are too many to have a bingo card for tonight - I could not fit them in a single post here.
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In @PrivateEyeNews In the Money: new tech, same old tax tricks - how Nvidia, the world’s most valuable co, pays no corporation tax in the UK. Full story in the mag.
Post Office scandal accountability free zone: Fujitsu excuses for not coughing up that don’t add up; delays holding lawyers to account; and how, of the £3m bonuses for P. Vennells, £0 will be clawed back. Chance to read online from @privateeyenews
private-eye.co.uk/in-the-bac…
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"There's a temptation to think of this as a scandal followed by the cover up. But it was ALWAYS a cover up, right from the outset."
The #PostOffice Horizon scandal story as told by
@rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews
With @GoldbergRadio @BylineTimes
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Thanks to @GoldbergRadio and @BylineTimesPod for chance to discuss my book Post Mortem, examining how the government, Post Office and Fujitsu conspired to persecute thousands. Do tune in!
NEW EPISODE: Why are sub-postmasters still waiting for those who wrongly prosecuted them to be brought to justice?
Listen to @rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews talking about his new book 'Post Mortem'.
@GoldbergRadio @BylineTimes
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Entries are now open for the @PrivateEyeNews Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism. The deadline is 12pm on Tuesday 17th March. Find out more & apply here: private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-…
In current @PrivateEyeNews, In the Money looks at - the fugitives, sanction-dodgers and, er, British patriots calling Dubai home; Abramovich and the UK’s faltering efforts to seize dodgy money; and (then) Prince Andrew’s equerry’s no-show for a top job at royal bankers Coutts.
Some *free* weekend reading: @PrivateEyeNews special report on the Teesside regeneration scandal - the history, the deceptions and the transfer of hundreds of millions of pounds from the taxpayer to two businessmen - one now in Dubai - and their families and friends.
As Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen's defence of his deal with local businessmen crumbles, here's the Eye's recent eight-page special report on how Britain's flagship regeneration scheme secretly turned into one of the biggest giveaways of public money on record.
➡️ Read for free on our website now:
private-eye.co.uk/special-re…
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As Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen's defence of his deal with local businessmen crumbles, here's the Eye's recent eight-page special report on how Britain's flagship regeneration scheme secretly turned into one of the biggest giveaways of public money on record.
➡️ Read for free on our website now:
private-eye.co.uk/special-re…
Scottish Legal News reviews “very readable” Post Mortem. Available from all good bookshops! scottishlegal.com/articles/r…
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How Britain’s flagship ‘levelling up’ project turned into a scandalous giveaway.
Read the eight-page special report from Eye 1660 (Oct 2025). Back issue available here:
checkout.private-eye.co.uk/S…
It was to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of the River Tees became little more than an unlawful, taxpayer-funded scheme to promote the political career of a Tory golden boy and vastly enrich a couple of local businessmen and their families, all hidden in a web of deception.
Conservative Mayor of Tees Valley Lord Houchen told #Newsnight in 2024 that 2 private developers had ‘£50m of their money sitting in a bank account’ when I quoted an independent report pointing out the pair (Chris Musgrove & Martin Corney) had put no direct cash of their own into regenerating the huge old Redcar steelworks site (now Teesworks)
@RBrooks45 reports in this week’s @PrivateEyeNews that almost all of that £50m has now been taken as dividends by Messrs Musgrave & Corney (there’s £2.7m left in the account)
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Conservative Mayor of Tees Valley Lord Houchen told #Newsnight in 2024 that 2 private developers had ‘£50m of their money sitting in a bank account’ when I quoted an independent report pointing out the pair (Chris Musgrove & Martin Corney) had put no direct cash of their own into regenerating the huge old Redcar steelworks site (now Teesworks)
@RBrooks45 reports in this week’s @PrivateEyeNews that almost all of that £50m has now been taken as dividends by Messrs Musgrave & Corney (there’s £2.7m left in the account)
