@rbrooks45.bsky.social
Private Eye hack, author of Post Mortem (@privateeyenews.bsky.social), Bean Counters (Atlantic, 2018), The Great Tax Robbery (OneWorld, 2013)
Lookalike: Starmer and Trump / Lord Charles and Ray Alan
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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.bsky.social, In the Money section.
05.02.2026 09:52 — 👍 110 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 1
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.bsky.social, In the Money section.
05.02.2026 09:52 — 👍 110 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 1In current @privateeyenews.bsky.social - the top British firm that helps train America's "violent, untrained" ICE agents, plus other UK firms with $millions in ICE contracts
05.02.2026 08:38 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Eye hack Richard Brooks exposed the Post Office scandal for over a decade before it became a TV drama or political crisis. He’s speaking in Birmingham on Tues 17 Feb.
Political Therapy: Post Mortem with Richard Brooks
➡️ Tickets: 1000trades.org.uk/events/polit...
A photo of the front cover of issue 1668 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main cover line reads “LORD MANDELSON IN DISGRACE.” The central image shows a blurred, photograph of a Mandelson standing indoors wearing a T-shirt and underwear, holding a folder. Surrounding the image are multiple speech bubbles, including: “I’ve let myself down, my party down and my trousers down,” “He’s going to pay for this – which makes a change!”, “Talk about a cheques offender!”, “He will need some decent briefs!”, “Time to strip him of his title as well!”, “Oh no! He’s into M&S!” and “Can we have a cover up, please!”
Lord Mandelson in disgrace
The new Private Eye is out now.
Link to illuminating discussion IT professionals about how the industry responds to the Horizon scandal. Thanks to @archivesofit.bsky.social
archivesit.org.uk/horizon-less...
If you're around Birmingham in a couple of weeks, do come along to @1000trades.bsky.social to hear me talk about Post Mortem, my book on the Post Office scandal. "A concise, clear and seethingly but suppressedly angry book" - @thetimes.com
03.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.bsky.social
29.01.2026 12:09 — 👍 79 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 1
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.bsky.social
29.01.2026 12:09 — 👍 79 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 1
Two men were given 90% of Teesworks on the promise they would take on responsibility of remediating the site.
I've discovered they were charging BP for remediation on a project the oil giant eventually pulled out of.
Teesworks overspent and then asked them for more cash.
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."
Talking #PostOffice Horizon with @rbrooks45.bsky.social
@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2ybw...
Why are sub-postmasters still waiting, years later, for those who wrongly prosecuted them to be brought to justice?
Listen now to @rbrooks45.bsky.social talking about his new book 'Post Mortem'.
@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2ybw...
In @privateeyenews.bsky.social 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.
24.01.2026 12:24 — 👍 84 🔁 38 💬 3 📌 0Generous of the FT to say Lord Houchen “has championed the Teesworks regeneration scheme”. Here’s what he’s really done to it - special @privateeyenews.bsky.social report free to read online -
www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...
"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 scandal - and the wait for justice
@rbrooks45.bsky.social with @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2ybw...
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.bsky.social
www.private-eye.co.uk/in-the-back
"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.bsky.social
@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2ybw...
NEW EPISODE: Justice Delayed? Or Justice Denied?
The #PostOffice Horizon scandal with @rbrooks45.bsky.social talking about his new book 'Post Mortem'.
@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/2ybw...
Thanks to @GoldbergRadio.bsky.social and @bylinetimes.bsky.social for chance to discuss my book Post Mortem, examining how the government, Post Office and Fujitsu conspired to persecute thousands. Do tune in!
23.01.2026 07:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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-aw...
22.01.2026 16:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
When Christian Wakeford MP defected from the Tories to Labour in 2022, Nigel Farage was outraged.
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Generous of the FT to say Lord Houchen “has championed the Teesworks regeneration scheme”. Here’s what he’s really done to it - special @privateeyenews.bsky.social report free to read online -
www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...
A photo of the front cover of issue 1667 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main cover line reads “AMERICAN AGGRESSION – GREENLANDERS SPEAK OUT.” The central image shows two polar bears standing upright on snowy ground, facing each other. Speech bubbles add commentary: one bear says, “Trump’s most dangerous when he’s cornered and hungry,” while the other replies, “And we thought global warming was our biggest threat!” A strapline beneath the image reads, “PRIVATE EYE’S DEFIANT MESSAGE: ‘WE ARE FOR SALE – JUST £2.99!’”
American Aggression: Greenlanders Speak Out
The new Private Eye is out now.
'Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul' - Alexander Christie-Miller. 'The Winter List' - Shona MacLean. 'Greece' - Roderick Beaton. 'Post Mortem' - Richard Brooks.
Christmas means getting books as gifts, and that means real books. I don't have a Kindle. These are now next on my reading list. 🙂
26.12.2025 17:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
In current @privateeyenews.bsky.social, 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.
16.01.2026 09:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks!
16.01.2026 07:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m just going in to chapter 8 of Post Mortem and already there’s at least a dozen people mentioned who really should be in prison. It’s a compelling book.
16.01.2026 00:49 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Richard Brooks reports in this week’s Private Eye that almost all of that £50m has now been taken as dividends by the developers Chris Musgrave & Martin Corney (there’s £2.7m left in the account) 👇
08.01.2026 14:30 — 👍 154 🔁 71 💬 8 📌 4Conservative 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 had put no direct cash of their own into regenerating the huge old Redcar steelworks site 👇
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