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Ex paywall: Private Eye’s “balanced” coverage sees it batting for fraudsters

Tom Winnifrith
Thursday 2 April 2026

Private Eye has finally got around to the story of how a CEO of serial frauds Paul Mathieson hired goons Zak Mir, Barings Nick Leeson and Seth Freedman, the man paid by Harvey Weinstein to harass women he’d raped, to “destroy” me with a dirty tricks campaign involving Bloomberg reporters, SLAPP orders and weaponizing my mum’s death to protect his latest fraud, Amazing Ai. The facts of all ofthat are clear thanks to a whatsapp group I published HERE.  But Private Eye almost bats for Mathieson as you can see below. It helps those fraudsters and corporate rapscallions who want to avoid my scrutiny. Shame on Lord Gnome.

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Tom Winnifrith is the editor of TomWinnifrith.com. When he is not harvesting olives in Greece, he is (planning to) raise goats in Wales.
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