Richard Brooks
@rbrooks45.bsky.social
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.
If you’re in Dumfries & Galloway in September… kbtfringe.co.uk/event/events...
Post Mortem: The Truth behind the Post Office Scandal - KBT Fringe
Join investigative journalist Richard Brooks for an urgent exploration into the Post Office Horizon IT debacle’arguably the most profound miscarriage of justice in modern UK history. While politicians...
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Japan News, English language version of country's largest daily, reviews my book Post Mortem - "important read when looking at technology we rely on and the attitudes of govts and tech firms, including Fujitsu...". Let's hope the company's bosses read it. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/book...
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A cautionary devolution tale: hundreds of millions of pounds invested in Teesside but benefiting a couple of local businesssmen rather than the region, thanks to mayor Houchen. Full @privateeyenews.bsky.social report from last year online here: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...
Special Report: Stripped Tees
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...
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A cautionary devolution tale: hundreds of millions of pounds invested in Teesside but benefiting a couple of local businesssmen rather than the region, thanks to mayor Houchen. Full @privateeyenews.bsky.social report from last year online here: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...
Special Report: Stripped Tees
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...
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In latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social In the Money, Bank of England eases capital rules for banks at same time as its financial stability report warns of risky asset valuations and members of its financial policy committee worry about dangers of the move…
Eye hack Richard Brooks tracked the companies and middlemen who cashed in on the crisis, and the government that let them get away with it. ➡️ Profits of Doom special report available to read for free: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo... 🧵2/2
Special Report: Profits Of Doom
As the greatest public health emergency for a century brought illness, bereavement and hardship to millions in the UK and presented taxpayers with a £75bn bill for extra health spending, a smaller ban...
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The Eye exposed Covid profiteering back in 2021, long before this week’s inquiry findings that nearly £10bn of PPE was written off as wasted, and that a “VIP lane” fast-tracked the politically connected. 🧵1/2
It's Private Eye day 🎉 To mark the appointment of yet another Prime Minister we have a brand new issue for you... on shelves now! Or subscribe at www.subsonline.co.uk Either way make sure you get your copy!
As the evidence of their nefarious use mounts, the government tries turning the UK into a stablecoin playground. More in latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social
How @privateeyenews.bsky.social exposed Covid waste and profiteering back in 2021. Profits of Doom special report available to read here- www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...
Special Report: Profits Of Doom
As the greatest public health emergency for a century brought illness, bereavement and hardship to millions in the UK and presented taxpayers with a £75bn bill for extra health spending, a smaller ban...
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For all its professed commitment to “sovereign” tech capability, the UK government is remarkably ready to waive the rules to accommodate US data company Palantir. 🧵1/4
Meet and Discreet: how Ministry of Defence waived the rules with un-minuted meeting between defence secretary and Palantir’s bosses Karp and Mosley, a week before signing ‘strategic partnership’. In latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social, chance to read online here - www.private-eye.co.uk/hp-sauce
Private Eye | Palantir : Meet and discreet
FOR all its professed commitment to “sovereign” tech capability, the UK government is remarkably ready to waive the rules to accommodate US data company Palantir.
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Farage feels the heat The new Private Eye is out now.
Reminder of @privateeyenews.bsky.social review of George Cottrell’s How to Launder Money book from four months ago…
In @privateeyenews.bsky.social In the Money looks at the SpaceX float and deciphers the management speak to understand the very British efforts in the scale-up space. Chance to read online… www.private-eye.co.uk/columnists
Private Eye | In the Money : Economies of scale-up
The success of the record-breaking SpaceX flotation, with the share price shooting up like Elon Musk’s right arm at a Donald Trump rally, was no great surprise. It also gives a pointer to the way the ...
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The publicly funded clean-up of the former Redcar steelworks has turned into a private windfall. Teesworks Ltd, 90% owned by two local businessmen, holds an option to buy the remediated land at £1 an acre. It’s now agreed in principle to sell 222 acres to AI firm Anthropic for £222m.
Last week’s @privateeyenews.bsky.social In the Money revealed the Palantir UK set-up with hundreds of sales staff, no UK directors and minimal returns to U.K. company, limiting tax payments. Buy the mag for details!
With regional devolution likely to be at the heart of a Burnham government agenda, a reminder of how badly wrong it can go when the local Mr Bigs aren't properly scrutinised...
Richard Brooks@rbrooks45.bsky.social · 2mo agoTees 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
Britain sheds a Keir (surely tear? Ed) The new Private Eye is out now.
Anti-Brexit activist Steve Bray has been criticised for making a racket during Starmer’s resignation speech yesterday. Perhaps there was one message he could have shouted that people would have been more amenable to: IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK! New edition in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.
Never mind who’s playing - who’s paying? Latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social In the Money has a guide to the World Cup’s questionable finances…
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
Private Eye | Deal of the century : Teesside hustle
COMMERCIAL terms agreed in principle for a new data centre on the former steelworks site on the south bank of the Tees show how the publicly funded regeneration of one of the UK's most deprived region...
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(1)One good thing about Roy Hattersley is when he left the front bench he did not immediately join a privatised industry/lobbyist/set up a consultancy. He just stayed in politics via writing. He was among the last generation of Labour politicians who did not take this previously Tory route...
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
Richard Brooks@rbrooks45.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew @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.
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…”
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
Private Eye | Deal of the century : Teesside hustle
COMMERCIAL terms agreed in principle for a new data centre on the former steelworks site on the south bank of the Tees show how the publicly funded regeneration of one of the UK's most deprived region...
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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.
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.
