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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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“Tell them we’re not animals. We’re Subpostmasters. Please treat us fairly”
Saf Ismail, Board Director, unloads Poor old Saf Ismail. He really does seem like a genuinely decent man. He’s a good businessman, running several Post Offices. He was elected to the Post Office board in 2021 as one of the new Subpostmaster representatives, something he said Nick Read privately came to regret. Ismail realised very…
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Post Office CEO Nick Read announces his departure
Hi I am at the Radio Festival at the Institute of Physics today. Above is their lovely garden, which is adjacent to Regent’s Park in London. This morning I spoke (inside the building) to Sima Kotecha (formerly a colleague at BBC Radio Newsbeat, now the BBC’s Senior UK News correspondent) about the making of The…
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Lord Arbuthnot declared Honorary Subpostmaster, new Post Office TV doc imminent and…
Post Office: the musical is here. But first… Hi Lord and Lady Arbuthnot kindly invited me to their 40th wedding anniversary reception last night. I didn’t know what to expect, nor what to bring as a gift. Lord Arbuthnot is patron of the Horizon Scandal Fund, so I knocked an idea around with my fellow…
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