Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks is an investigative journalist for Private Eye magazine. He covers financial and political scandals and has written two books: Beancounters and The Great Tax Robbery.
Summer Conference Event
— Keynote Talk
Breaking Horizon: The Post Office Scandal
Over nearly two decades, the UK Post Office prosecuted hundreds of innocent subpostmasters for shortfalls in their accounts caused, in fact, by errors of an IT system called Horizon - one of the biggest and most egregious miscarriages of justice in recent British history.
Talks and Screenings
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Richard Brooks: How accountants got away with murder
Often perceived as dull, the secretive world of international accountancy has grown, cockroach-like, in stature even as the financial world crashed in 2008. Safe from real censure, the world’s biggest accountancy firms have evolved into behemoths – there to encourage tax avoidance, to prop up anti-democratic movements, to push sometimes damaging deregulation, even to infiltrate the machinery of the state.
