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Coming to terms with a surprise victory – the people have spoken
We won! Thank you. Hello I would not normally lead on winning an award, but I have you to thank. In September, when I asked you to vote for The Great Post Office Trial in the Radio Times Screen Test Awards audio category, I felt our chances of winning were tiny to slim. By last…
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Post Office Inquiry: Slippery Recaldin flatters to deceive
Morning! First of all, thanks to the multiple correspondents who got in touch after my last newsletter to point out that I had rendered the new £0.8bn element of Rachel Reeves’ compensation announcement for Subpostmasters as a measly £800,000 (especially the person who told me I meant £8,000,000,000). I should, of course, have written £800,000,000,…
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Treasury increases Subpostmaster compensation provision to £1.8bn
Hi there We’re heading towards the end of the Inquiry’s two-week half term break, so I thought I’d send you a round-up of the various news lines which have appeared since I wrote to you last week from Dublin. Compensation pot expands The government has finally put aside some serious money for victims of the…
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New: HCAB demands quashing of all Capture convictions
Good morning from murky Dublin! I spent yesterday afternoon addressing the Institute of Directors (IoD) in Ireland on the subject of corporate governance at the Aviva stadium, or as most people know it, Lansdowne Road. Last time I was in Dublin, Taylor Swift was playing the Aviva stadium. We could hear her as we walked…
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Remote Focus on Foat
Hello there Today’s Inquiry hearing started at 9am this morning, which necessitated an early start. I managed to fight my way through the commuters to Aldwych House in London, which was more that today’s witness, Ben Foat, Post Office General Counsel, managed. As you can see from the screenshot above, Foat gave evidence remotely. If…
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Post Office Security team under the spotlight today
Good morning If you have not read my write-up of former Post Office Operations Director Mike Young, please be my guest. It’s Mike’s World. We just live in it. Sorry for not alerting you to it sooner. Don’t forget you can get all my blog posts into your email inbox within an hour of them…
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Missing Mike Young is questioned at the Inquiry
“Good morning Nick”, said the transcriber as she swept past. “You’ve been conspicuous by your absence.” I know, I know… This is my first visit to the Inquiry hearing room this phase. I have read and/or watched every word said at the Inquiry (and I thanked Louise the transcriber for her superb work in allowing…
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Post Office misleads Inquiry by omission and… was Nick Read lying?
Morning all! I have two new-ish blog posts to tell you about. Each picked something interesting up from Post Office CEO Nick Read’s first two days of evidence to the Inquiry. Day 1 – The Untouchables: someone’s lying Day 2 – Post Office misleads public inquiry over compensation There have, as you can imagine, been…
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Post Office employee suspended for destroying data as Inquiry prepares to grill CEO
As police confirm third suspect interviewed Just a very quick one. I am grateful to Karl Flinders for spotting an extraordinary paragraph in a witness statement to the public inquiry published on Friday. He saw that the current Post Office Company Secretary had told the inquiry about “allegations that a senior Post Office member of…
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How long can this hapless farce go on?
No I’m not talking about this newsletter Or am I? Hope you are doing well. Apologies for not being around of late. I have been watching the Inquiry, but not writing about it. Yesterday Henry Staunton (former Chair) and Al Cameron (former CFO) revealed yet more about the executive dysfunction at boardroom, shareholder and senior…
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