Fireside Chat with Richard Brooks
Tuesday 28th April at 18.30 | The Drawing Room and Zoom | £15.00 per person*
*Includes one glass Prosecco
*£10.00 for those joining via Zoom
For those who have followed the Post Office Scandal, Richard Brooks ranks very high as someone who can offer true insight. Private Eye, the magazine which he serves as one of the publication’s most rigorous and tenacious investigative journalists, has featured the issue for now close to 15 years, making the running, along with Computer Weekly, from the very first days.
In “Post Mortem”, the first forensic account of how the Post Office, the British government and a global IT company ruined the lives of thousands of innocent people, Brooks draws on coverage of over a decade, well ahead of mainstream media picking up on what was unfolding. He shares a story that still drops jaws in the way political, institutional, professional, and personal failures all coagulated to a nation’s shame.
For The Rag’s April fireside chat, join Brooks in the Drawing Room where he will relay the genesis of a national scandal which he has written up in the hope that the lessons learnt will guard against such abuses in future. This is the wish, certainly, of Sir Alan Bates who has contributed a foreword to the book.
Why not join Richard afterwards at the Coffee Room supper table where conversation can continue and broaden out? An investigative journalist from Private Eye is never going to be short of a story to share…with Post Office Scandal one he and his publication has served well.