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Post Office Inquiry: the fit-up machine
Morning I went to the Inquiry yesterday. I saw Andy Dunks give evidence. If I were a betting man I would put a small amount of money on him facing criminal charges by September next year. He’s the most obvious choice within Fujitsu, possibly including Gareth Jenkins. Judge for yourself with my report on yesterday’s…
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Post Office Scandal: civil service advice to Ed Davey used to shut down Alan Bates published in full
Hi there I hope you had a good weekend. There was a lot of news and sport going on, for sure. Today at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, the briefing note given to Ed Davey ahead of his meeting with Alan Bates was given another going over, so I sought to enquire if it…
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Post Office Inquiry: The Callard Complacency
Good morning I am afraid I have not had the opportunity to put up a piece on Richard Callard, nor have I had time to watch the evidence of Patrick O’Sullivan, the second witness on Wednesday. I was at Callard yesterday in a largely deserted hearing room, though both Richard Brooks from Private Eye and…
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Post Office Inquiry: the “minority of one” inside the government and Post Office attempting to avert disaster
Morning Yesterday saw evidence at the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry from Tom Cooper, one of the most significant witnesses in this whole inquiry to date. Cooper was UK Government Investments’ man on the Post Office board, where he was a Non-Executive Director. He joined in 2018, two years into the Post Office’s litigation against…
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Post Office Scandal: a corporate governance disaster pt 7583
Captains of Industrial Hindsight Morning It was a bit of a grind yesterday, what with all the live-tweeting and article-writing. I came out the other end at around 10.40pm with not one, but two blog posts about yesterday’s witnesses. The first “Down ShEx – UKGI on heat (maps) and relish” is a combination of several…
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Post Office Inquiry: Dawn of the Mandarins
Hello! I’ll start with some good news. Campaigning Subpostmaster Noel Thomas is going to get an honorary degree from Bangor University! More here. Also – campaigning MP Kevan Jones, who stood down at the last election, is being elevated to the House of Lords. Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance founder Sir Alan Bates told Computer Weekly:…
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Post Office Inquiry: Part-time Parker and his Problems with Privilege
Good morning, Former Chair of the Post Office Tim Parker gave evidence to the Inquiry yesterday, and I think the thing we all probably learned was that he was not sufficiently interested in the scandal to do much about it. You can read my report here. Some of it was written on a train, some…
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Secret email: Parker Preview and Glitch – the latest play about the Post Office Scandal
Hello there I was lucky enough to attend a performance of Glitch last night at the Minghella Theatre in Reading. It’s the second play I’ve seen about the Post Office Horizon IT scandal and unlikely to be the last. This one focuses on Pam Stubbs’ story. Pam ran a Post Office in Barkham near Wokingham,…
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Jenkins Day 3: the holy fool
Good morning from a blowy Cramond near Edinburgh. I am sorry I will not be able to cover the fourth day of Gareth Jenkins’ evidence at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry today. It has already begun. You can watch it here: One very useful tool in the YouTube box is the playback speed option.…
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Jenkins Day 2: the god complex unravels
Hiya My report on Day 2 of Gareth Jenkins is up and can be found here: “The god complex unravels“ I suspect after yesterday, Jenkins has some idea of just how much trouble he’s in (if you missed it, here’s my report from Day 1: “The misplaced confidence of an unreliable god“). Jason Beer spent…