Go get your @privateeyenews.bsky.social folks and buckle up for another incredible report by @rbrooks45.bsky.social on the Teeside development - a tale of insane #cronyism and #profiteering at taxpayer expense.

@csc-barrington.bsky.social @ethicsandintegrity.bsky.social

Trump’s Gaza Triumph

The new Private Eye is out now.

Special report on the great Teesside giveaway in new @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Current @privateeyenews.bsky.social has latest on the financial idiocy on Lord Houchen’s patch - which has proved very useful to a couple of businessmen, less so the people of Teesside.

Current @privateeyenews.bsky.social has latest on the financial idiocy on Lord Houchen’s patch - which has proved very useful to a couple of businessmen, less so the people of Teesside.

One of our customers at work owed us money ( over a year) until I mentioned that private eye had showed how much they had made out of the scheme.

Today, a company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone was told it must repay the government £122m for breaching a contract for medical gowns during the Covid pandemic.

Read our special report online on some of the other fat cats who made a mint during covid.

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🎥The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money

ITV1 Sunday 21st September @ 10.15pm

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Catch Eye hack Richard Brooks tonight on ITV1 in The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money.

The documentary tells the story of how some companies with little or no track record in supplying PPE or medical tests were given massive contracts - and made a killing from Covid.

🕙 10:15pm on ITV1 / ITVX

Bill for lawyers on Post Office scandal hits £350m, more than half to firm that helped fight against Alan Bates then cleaned up on redress scheme. More in @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Critical infrastructure update: 20 substations on Teesside sold to local businessmen for £10.91, as they’re gifted 45% stake in previously publicly-owned electricity network. Another bonanza on the Tees for the lucky few. Full details in @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Starmer and Miliband’s £22bn Net Zero carbon capture plan sending lots of zeroes into the bank accounts of UK’s luckiest businessmen, as they buy 12 acre plot that the Teesside part is being built on for £12.43 (plus VAT). Details in latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social

The grim prioritisation for infected blood scandal compensation, brought about by inordinate delays. From @privateeyenews.bsky.social - chance to read online…
private-eye.co.uk/in-the-back

Latest mega-deal for businessmen on Teesside - the airport business park that they were said to be investing in but is now funded entirely by taxpayer - while they get 50% ownership. Full story in @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Last year’s freebie brouhaha hasn’t deterred Rachel Reeves from accepting more cash from one of Labour’s wealthy donors. In January the chancellor took £15,000 from Lord (David) Sainsbury “to support my parliamentary and political duties”.

Full story online: www.private-eye.co.uk/news

South Tees Development Corpn (chair: Ben Houchen) awards new £9m security across U.K.’s largest freeport to co whose management by man serving long sentence for drug crime @PrivateEyeNews had already exposed, and despite co lying about his role. Full story in the mag.

The great and the not so good: honours to heroes of the Post Office scandal and, er, the senior partner of the law firm helping to persecute them. Details in @PrivateEyeNews.

With third anniversary of Ukraine invasion approaching, @PrivateEyeNews continues its look at ineffectual sanctions policing - details in current mag still on sale -

As Lord Houchen’s Teesside International Airport files big 2023/24 losses, here’s how @PrivateEyeNews revealed back in August that the supposed “profit” then announced for the year was another of his porkie pies and would make Enron’s accountants blush -

@PrivateEyeNews rounds off a year of Post Office reporting with a look at the dire compensation schemes and the lawyers - still! - quibbling over claims. Less than 30% of expected redress paid out. Full story in the mag.

Tax dodging, porkie pies, fortunes from the ultra-wealthy of the former Soviet region… meet the Reform party’s new treasurer in @PrivateEyeNews

Familiar tale: @PrivateEyeNews puts serious story to Tees Valley Combined Authority; it quickly comes out with favourable spin courtesy of obliging @TheNorthernEcho. In short: after appalling review and audit following Eye's revelations, chief exec is out -
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