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May 2024
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Post Office Inquiry: What did Vennells really do, and why?
plus: Bath Festival talk Hi there I’m on my way back to Surrey after a quick trip to Somerset to take part in the Bath Festival. It was a privilege to spend some time with former Post Office manager Nicki Arch and her husband Steve, Rebecca Thomson (who broke the story about the Post Office…
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Post Office Horizon Offences Act becomes law – hundreds of convictions instantly quashed
plus: Vennells Day 2 Morning everyone. I’ve written three blog posts in the last 12 hours which doesn’t give me much time to do more than tell you about them. 1) It’s a(n) historic day. The Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act has become law. Read about it here. 2) Vennells admits cover up. I…
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Post Office Inquiry: Cold Mess – Vennells’ first day of evidence reviewed
The penny starts to drop Morning everyone Hope you are okay. The Paula Vennells dumpster fire was towed into town (by electric car – watch the media scrum here) yesterday and girl was it bad. It was worse than I thought. She was worse than I thought. For example, Vennells revealed that for some reason,…
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Post Office Inquiry today: Paula Vennells questioned for the first time in 9 years
plus: Lyons’ blindness and Caring Hugh Alwen Lyons is clearly a bright and capable woman. She wanted to do good things with her time on this earth and yet she spent her entire career at a company which destroyed the lives of hundreds if not thousands of people. Whilst she was there. Whilst she was…
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Post Office Inquiry: Stalking Lyons, Moorhead vs Clarke and lots of Paula previews
Today’s mane event I had yet another one of those moments this morning when I went to save a blog post, messed it up and lost more than half my work. When will I learn to write my stuff on a WP document and not in a web browser? Anyway – I remembered most of…
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Post Office Inquiry: Former Post Office General Counsel Jane MacLeod refuses to cooperate with Inquiry
plus: It’s tour over! I’ve had three people get in touch in the last couple of days to ask if I’m okay as they haven’t had any emails recently. I did say I was going to take some time out to focus on the rest of my talks in my last newsletter, but sorry if…
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Post Office Inquiry: Incompetence is not the start of it – Rod Ismay returns
plus: A certain amount of Ismay Hi everyone – I am on a noisy, bouncy train chugging through the Wiltshire countryside. Spring has very definitely sprung and I have just seen a white horse carved into a hill. Exciting. I am on my way to Devon to meet Geoff Pound, one of the original 555…
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Post Office Inquiry: The Post Office Panderer
plus: A certain amount of Ismay Simon Clarke’s candour and clarity of thought made for a refreshing evidence session yesterday. Unfortunately I hit a sort of wall by mid-afternoon and found myself unable to pull together a blog post which I felt would do his evidence justice. Thankfully plenty of other crack journalists were on…
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Post Office Inquiry: Here Comes Clarke-y and Altman’s Big Mistake
The Man Who Called Time Am I allowed to feel an element of anticipatory sympathy for Simon Clarke? It may be misplaced. Clarke wrote the First Clarke Advice, which put a javelin through the spokes of the Post Office’s prosecution machine. But his actions around Seema Misra in particular need thorough examination. This is what…
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Post Office Inquiry: Anticipating Altman, with reflections on Belinda Cortes-Martin’s evidence
The Kahuna Cometh Good morning from the Inquiry ante-room Former Subpostmaster Lee Castleton and his wife Lisa are here, chatting to another former Subpostmaster (and once Britain’s youngest) Chris Head. Lee, Lisa, Chris and his mum Sue (all pictured above) are only staying for the morning session, then they’re off to Buckingham Palace this afternoon…