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Companies House flaw exposed five million directors and enabled company hijacking

Mar 13, 2026 Investigations

Companies House flaw exposed five million directors and enabled company hijacking

A major vulnerability in the Companies House website enabled free access to the “dashboard” of any of the five million registered companies. It revealed directors’ home addresses and email addresses, and appears to have enabled editing of company details and even filing of accounts. The vulnerability was discovered yesterday by John Hewitt at Ghost Mail, […]

Mike Pugh, founder of MP Estate Planning. “Presto magic, there’s no tax.”

Mar 13, 2026 Investigations

MP Estate Planning: the unregulated firm selling defective trusts to the elderly

MP Estate Planning is an unregulated advisory firm using an extensive social media campaign to sell expensive “asset protection trusts” to elderly homeowners, often of relatively modest means. The pitch is simple: put your home into a trust and you can avoid inheritance tax, care home fees, divorce claims and creditors. Our investigation, drawing on […]

THE HON. MRS JUSTICE COLLINS RICE DBE CB
Approved Judgment

Kamal v Tax Policy Associates

31. In the circumstances, the pleading that it was ‘false and misleading’ to suggest that a
judicial finding of breach of duty had been made against him is incapable of forming a
part of the just disposal of Mr Kamal’s libel claim. The attempt to do so is an abuse of

the court’s processes. I grant the Defendant’s application to strike out [5(b)] of Mr
Kamal’s particulars of claim.

Mar 11, 2026 Analysis

We defeated an £8m libel claim – and it shows libel law and the Tax Bar need reform.

In February 2025, we published a report about a firm called Arka Wealth. They’d published hundreds of TikTok videos promoting a scheme that claimed to eliminate all corporate tax, income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax – not just in the UK but across Europe. An unbelievable claim, and all the tax advisers I […]

Simon Goldberg and Empower the People - US tax fraud

Feb 25, 2026 Investigations

The bizarre UK group selling US tax fraud to hundreds of Britons – and prosecuting its critics

Simon Goldberg and his UK-based organisation, Empower the People, are running an elaborate scheme to defraud the US Government. The group files fake US tax returns to trick the IRS into refunding their members’ everyday UK consumer spending – a practice the US tax authorities have repeatedly warned is fraudulent. When YouTuber Salim Fadhley publicised […]

Finance Monthly fake interview

Feb 20, 2026 Analysis

Finance Monthly fabricated an interview with me

Earlier this week, Finance Monthly published an article presented as an interview with me. No such interview took place. I was not contacted. I did not answer questions. The claim that Finance Monthly “spoke with” me is false. The piece reads like generic AI/large-language-model output: heavy use of em dashes, and lots of vague grand-sounding […]

Feb 11, 2026 Analysis

Mandelson and the Epstein emails: could he be prosecuted?

As has been widely reported, Peter Mandelson forwarded confidential Government documents to Jeffrey Epstein, and advised the CEO of JPMorgan to “mildly threaten” the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This article considers the prospect of prosecuting Mr Mandelson for these acts. Our view, on the basis of discussions with barristers and solicitors specialising in criminal and […]

Feb 11, 2026 Analysis

Epstein files: Mandelson email search

The official US Department of Justice “Epstein Library⚠️” search facility is slow and cumbersome. We can’t duplicate a multimillion-document search on our website, but we have made a fast and efficient search for the approximately 7,500 documents that are related to Peter Mandelson. It’s much less complete than jmail, but has the advantage that it […]

On Jul 26. 2010. at 1:51 PM,

It's about reputation and perception. Public goo
(modest and temporary, | hope) reputational hit
about disclosure and speed. But that was due to
tut-tutting will subside, as it is starting to do alr

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Feb 2, 2026 Analysis

Mandelson leaked No 10 documents to Epstein – who then helped him pursue multi-million dollar jobs

Multiple documents in the Epstein files show Peter Mandelson forwarding confidential Government emails to Jeffrey Epstein in 2009 and 2010. The leaked material concerned live policy issues of immediate financial interest to Epstein and his circle. This report contains the full text of the most significant known leaked emails, together with a short explanation of […]

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Yes and mildly threaten

Sent from my BlackBerry®: wirele

Feb 1, 2026 Analysis

Epstein emails reveal Mandelson advising JPMorgan to threaten Chancellor over post-crisis banker bonus tax

On 9 December 2009, Chancellor Alistair Darling unveiled a one-off 50% tax on bankers’ bonuses. New documents from the Epstein Files reveal that a serving cabinet minister privately advised JPMorgan on how to fight back. Peter Mandelson, then Business Secretary, counselled Jamie Dimon on how to threaten the Government into softening the tax. Those exchanges […]