Cormac Kehoe
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Charles Ross, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and I had a look at what the shadow ministers in the House of Lords were working at. Turns out many of them are being paid to ‘advise’ the same industries that they’re supposed to be scrutinising. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Charles Ross, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and I had a look at what the shadow ministers in the House of Lords were working at. Turns out many of them are being paid to ‘advise’ the same industries that they’re supposed to be scrutinising. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
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Our first investigation was into the slew of fake companies selling all manner of tat on Amazon - in some cases doing so despite being dissolved
Estimated to cost the Treasury £700m, we understand there are conversations taking place w govt to address the issue
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
Estimated to cost the Treasury £700m, we understand there are conversations taking place w govt to address the issue
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
Fake companies cost HMRC £700m in tax-dodging tactics
Dozens of top online vendors have registered fake VAT numbers or none at all
observer.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Our first investigation was into the slew of fake companies selling all manner of tat on Amazon - in some cases doing so despite being dissolved
Estimated to cost the Treasury £700m, we understand there are conversations taking place w govt to address the issue
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
Estimated to cost the Treasury £700m, we understand there are conversations taking place w govt to address the issue
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
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Absolutely delighted to join the team for one more heist/third season of The Naked Week with @andrewhunterm.bsky.social
Investigations throughout the run from @coramazov.bsky.social @freyashaw.bsky.social and myself
Week one *might* have something to do with witches
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Investigations throughout the run from @coramazov.bsky.social @freyashaw.bsky.social and myself
Week one *might* have something to do with witches
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - The Naked Week: Ep1. Royal lodges, asylum hotels and witches. - BBC Sounds
Randy Royal Lodges, Asylum Hotels, and Which Witch is Which?
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November 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Absolutely delighted to join the team for one more heist/third season of The Naked Week with @andrewhunterm.bsky.social
Investigations throughout the run from @coramazov.bsky.social @freyashaw.bsky.social and myself
Week one *might* have something to do with witches
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Investigations throughout the run from @coramazov.bsky.social @freyashaw.bsky.social and myself
Week one *might* have something to do with witches
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Our London Centric piece this morning about the eviction of four more restaurateurs from Elephant and Castle, the major international money behind it, and the rapid diminution of the areas Latin America community www.londoncentric.media/p/elephant-c...
Did the evicted Elephant and Castle restaurants stand a chance?
One topic has really dominated the London Centric inbox this week: The eviction of a group of Caribbean, South American, and African restaurants in south London’s Elephant and Castle by developers in ...
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October 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Our London Centric piece this morning about the eviction of four more restaurateurs from Elephant and Castle, the major international money behind it, and the rapid diminution of the areas Latin America community www.londoncentric.media/p/elephant-c...
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Who keeps crashing cars at speed into the front of a specific Tesco Express in east London? It’s happened four times in the last three weeks. It looks like a robbery - but London Centric has learned nothing is stolen and it appears to be the same driver. www.londoncentric.media/p/tesco-expr...
The mysterious Tesco Express car attacker
Someone really wants to destroy a supermarket in Stratford, to the exasperation of low-paid supermarket staff who are having to pick up the pieces.
www.londoncentric.media
September 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Who keeps crashing cars at speed into the front of a specific Tesco Express in east London? It’s happened four times in the last three weeks. It looks like a robbery - but London Centric has learned nothing is stolen and it appears to be the same driver. www.londoncentric.media/p/tesco-expr...
4 times in the last 3 weeks someone has smashed a car through the front of the same Tesco in the dead of night. Weirdly, nothing has been stolen. It just appears to be an attempt to damage the store/shut it down. But why? and whose behind it? Insane mystery. www.londoncentric.media/p/tesco-expr...
Who keeps driving cars into this Tesco Express?
Someone really wants to destroy a supermarket in Stratford, to the exasperation of low-paid supermarket staff who are having to pick up the pieces.
www.londoncentric.media
September 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
4 times in the last 3 weeks someone has smashed a car through the front of the same Tesco in the dead of night. Weirdly, nothing has been stolen. It just appears to be an attempt to damage the store/shut it down. But why? and whose behind it? Insane mystery. www.londoncentric.media/p/tesco-expr...
Our follow-up story this morning about how Asif Aziz’s company is now also renting retail spaces in Edinburgh to students who vanish, leaving huge unpaid tax bills behind. This follows our recent investigation into millions being lost by HMRC at Aziz’s properties in LDN.
What’s the story behind those dodgy gift shops on Princes Street in Edinburgh? Jim Waterson of @londoncentric.media investigates in bonus edition of the Minute: edinburghminute.substack.com/p/tax-evadin...
September 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Our follow-up story this morning about how Asif Aziz’s company is now also renting retail spaces in Edinburgh to students who vanish, leaving huge unpaid tax bills behind. This follows our recent investigation into millions being lost by HMRC at Aziz’s properties in LDN.
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Prospect’s exclusive review of former ministers’ post-government careers found many working in lobbying or with firms connected to their former briefs.
✍🏼 Charles Ross and @coramazov.bsky.social (@tcij.org)
✍🏼 Charles Ross and @coramazov.bsky.social (@tcij.org)
Where do politicians go when it is time to leave the stage?
Our exclusive review into the next careers of recent former ministers and SpAds found a notable number now working in lobbying or with firms connected...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Prospect’s exclusive review of former ministers’ post-government careers found many working in lobbying or with firms connected to their former briefs.
✍🏼 Charles Ross and @coramazov.bsky.social (@tcij.org)
✍🏼 Charles Ross and @coramazov.bsky.social (@tcij.org)
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Intriguing to see the page layouts, text formatting, placement of illustrations, and exact colour scheme of our small mag The Fence (L) receiving such 'sincere flattery' from a 200k+ circulation 'nuke the small boats' newspaper like The Telegraph (R). Very cool.
August 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Intriguing to see the page layouts, text formatting, placement of illustrations, and exact colour scheme of our small mag The Fence (L) receiving such 'sincere flattery' from a 200k+ circulation 'nuke the small boats' newspaper like The Telegraph (R). Very cool.
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Prospect’s exclusive review of former ministers’ post-government careers found many working in lobbying or with firms connected to their former briefs.
✍🏼 Charles Ross and @coramazov.bsky.social (@tcij.org)
✍🏼 Charles Ross and @coramazov.bsky.social (@tcij.org)
Where do politicians go when it is time to leave the stage?
Our exclusive review into the next careers of recent former ministers and SpAds found a notable number now working in lobbying or with firms connected...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Prospect’s exclusive review of former ministers’ post-government careers found many working in lobbying or with firms connected to their former briefs.
✍🏼 Charles Ross and @coramazov.bsky.social (@tcij.org)
✍🏼 Charles Ross and @coramazov.bsky.social (@tcij.org)
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“You know what I think is his problem, very, very, honestly?” the man said. “He doesn’t understand that there is a limit".
In West London, an Italian charmer is duping the owners of the city's priciest properties, leaving a trail of debt and damage. This is the story of Claudio Di Giovanni.
In West London, an Italian charmer is duping the owners of the city's priciest properties, leaving a trail of debt and damage. This is the story of Claudio Di Giovanni.
August 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
“You know what I think is his problem, very, very, honestly?” the man said. “He doesn’t understand that there is a limit".
In West London, an Italian charmer is duping the owners of the city's priciest properties, leaving a trail of debt and damage. This is the story of Claudio Di Giovanni.
In West London, an Italian charmer is duping the owners of the city's priciest properties, leaving a trail of debt and damage. This is the story of Claudio Di Giovanni.
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Great investigation by @coramazov.bsky.social about an amazing character and London's high-end sub-letting market
www.the-londoner.co.uk/claudio-is-s...
www.the-londoner.co.uk/claudio-is-s...
'Claudio is Scamming'
How an Italian charmer is duping the owners of London’s priciest properties
www.the-londoner.co.uk
August 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Great investigation by @coramazov.bsky.social about an amazing character and London's high-end sub-letting market
www.the-londoner.co.uk/claudio-is-s...
www.the-londoner.co.uk/claudio-is-s...
This morns investigation into a rental arbitrage scheme involving some of London’s priciest properties. We look into the well-connected man behind it & speak to over a dozen victims— from electrocuted tourists to landlords who collectively lost over £100k
www.the-londoner.co.uk/claudio-is-s...
www.the-londoner.co.uk/claudio-is-s...
'Claudio is Scamming'
How an Italian charmer is duping the owners of London’s priciest properties
www.the-londoner.co.uk
August 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This morns investigation into a rental arbitrage scheme involving some of London’s priciest properties. We look into the well-connected man behind it & speak to over a dozen victims— from electrocuted tourists to landlords who collectively lost over £100k
www.the-londoner.co.uk/claudio-is-s...
www.the-londoner.co.uk/claudio-is-s...
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Just a quick note on how something like this comes together: Months of reporting from team inc @coramazov.bsky.social, @rachel-rees.bsky.social, and others. Illustrations by @carlydraws.bsky.social to explain it all, plus photos from Jenny F-H (she did the Leveson pictures). High quality lawyering.
He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?
www.londoncentric.media
July 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a quick note on how something like this comes together: Months of reporting from team inc @coramazov.bsky.social, @rachel-rees.bsky.social, and others. Illustrations by @carlydraws.bsky.social to explain it all, plus photos from Jenny F-H (she did the Leveson pictures). High quality lawyering.
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He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?
www.londoncentric.media
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
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This is incredible: using the same MO, retailer after retailer opens in the same few premium locations, selling the exact same products, then does a runner, leaving tax unpaid - and no one is responsible, certainly not the billionaire landlord who keeps getting so unlucky with his tenants.
He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?
www.londoncentric.media
July 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This is incredible: using the same MO, retailer after retailer opens in the same few premium locations, selling the exact same products, then does a runner, leaving tax unpaid - and no one is responsible, certainly not the billionaire landlord who keeps getting so unlucky with his tenants.
Our @londoncentric.media piece this morn shows how Asif Aziz’s company repeatedly rents some of the UK’s priciest retail spaces to students who vanish without paying millions in tax.
There’s so much money for HMRC in the WestEnd if it just enforces compliance!
open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
There’s so much money for HMRC in the WestEnd if it just enforces compliance!
open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?
open.substack.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Our @londoncentric.media piece this morn shows how Asif Aziz’s company repeatedly rents some of the UK’s priciest retail spaces to students who vanish without paying millions in tax.
There’s so much money for HMRC in the WestEnd if it just enforces compliance!
open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
There’s so much money for HMRC in the WestEnd if it just enforces compliance!
open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
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What's up with the Harry Potter shops in central London?
London Centric's investigation into their finances was raised in the House of Commons by Kensington and Bayswater Labour MP Joe Powell. He asked ministers what it will take to get HMRC officials to check the shops are paying their taxes.
London Centric's investigation into their finances was raised in the House of Commons by Kensington and Bayswater Labour MP Joe Powell. He asked ministers what it will take to get HMRC officials to check the shops are paying their taxes.
July 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
What's up with the Harry Potter shops in central London?
London Centric's investigation into their finances was raised in the House of Commons by Kensington and Bayswater Labour MP Joe Powell. He asked ministers what it will take to get HMRC officials to check the shops are paying their taxes.
London Centric's investigation into their finances was raised in the House of Commons by Kensington and Bayswater Labour MP Joe Powell. He asked ministers what it will take to get HMRC officials to check the shops are paying their taxes.
Just published an investigation into ‘We R Blighty, a homeless veteran C.I.C. thats the subject of two investigations. We found evidence of the group misrepresenting itself as a charity, and heard accusations against them ranging from theft to fraud. Read below www.the-londoner.co.uk/we-r-blighty...
Do those ‘We R Blighty’ fundraisers outside stations really deserve your cash?
The group says it raises money for homeless veterans. But we found it was pretending to be a charity and is accused of letting volunteers steal funds
www.the-londoner.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Just published an investigation into ‘We R Blighty, a homeless veteran C.I.C. thats the subject of two investigations. We found evidence of the group misrepresenting itself as a charity, and heard accusations against them ranging from theft to fraud. Read below www.the-londoner.co.uk/we-r-blighty...
Had a scoop in the last edition of the Eye that sheds some more light on our London Centric Harry Potter shop story - look out for the article "Dodgy Shops-Wizard Wheeze". There should be a few copies still on sale until tmo. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill
A London Centric investigation reveals one of the capital's most garish gift shops owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid taxes — and uncovers its mysterious owners.
www.londoncentric.media
May 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Had a scoop in the last edition of the Eye that sheds some more light on our London Centric Harry Potter shop story - look out for the article "Dodgy Shops-Wizard Wheeze". There should be a few copies still on sale until tmo. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
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Voters are heading to the polls in the seat of Runcorn and Helsby, with Reform confident of winning the seat from Labour. Read @coramazov.bsky.social’s recent report from a Reform campaign event.
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
Reform is coming for Labour in Runcorn
Ex-Tory Sarah Pochin and Nigel Farage are attacking the government on immigration to win the Cheshire seat
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Voters are heading to the polls in the seat of Runcorn and Helsby, with Reform confident of winning the seat from Labour. Read @coramazov.bsky.social’s recent report from a Reform campaign event.
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
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If Reform wins in Runcorn on the 1st May, it will signal a catastrophic plunge for Labour, and position Reform as a credible contender for government, writes @coramazov.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
Reform is coming for Labour in Runcorn
Ex-Tory Sarah Pochin and Nigel Farage are attacking the government on immigration to win the Cheshire seat
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
April 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If Reform wins in Runcorn on the 1st May, it will signal a catastrophic plunge for Labour, and position Reform as a credible contender for government, writes @coramazov.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
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Very interesting profile of Reform’s candidate in the Runcorn by-election by top hack Cormac Kehoe:
Was up in Runcorn last week with @prospectmagazine.co.uk profiling the Reform candidate for a by-election that will set the course of British politics for the next four years. Read about Sarah Pochin, a very different type of Reform candidate, below.
Reform is coming for Labour in Runcorn
Ex-Tory Sarah Pochin and Nigel Farage are attacking the government on immigration to win the Cheshire seat
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
April 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Very interesting profile of Reform’s candidate in the Runcorn by-election by top hack Cormac Kehoe:
Was up in Runcorn last week with @prospectmagazine.co.uk profiling the Reform candidate for a by-election that will set the course of British politics for the next four years. Read about Sarah Pochin, a very different type of Reform candidate, below.
Reform is coming for Labour in Runcorn
Ex-Tory Sarah Pochin and Nigel Farage are attacking the government on immigration to win the Cheshire seat
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Was up in Runcorn last week with @prospectmagazine.co.uk profiling the Reform candidate for a by-election that will set the course of British politics for the next four years. Read about Sarah Pochin, a very different type of Reform candidate, below.
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An oil trader and an Old Etonian with a genius for PR, was Justin Welby the worst Archbishop of Canterbury since Thomas Arundel?
@milesellingham.bsky.social and @coramazov.bsky.social investigate
www.the-fence.com/speaking-in-...
@milesellingham.bsky.social and @coramazov.bsky.social investigate
www.the-fence.com/speaking-in-...
Speaking in Small Tongues
Happy-clappy times in Knightsbridge and beyond.
www.the-fence.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
An oil trader and an Old Etonian with a genius for PR, was Justin Welby the worst Archbishop of Canterbury since Thomas Arundel?
@milesellingham.bsky.social and @coramazov.bsky.social investigate
www.the-fence.com/speaking-in-...
@milesellingham.bsky.social and @coramazov.bsky.social investigate
www.the-fence.com/speaking-in-...