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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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Final Inquiry Phase Timetable Published, Horizon Falls Over, Lawyers Get Rich and…
Serving Subpostmaster asks about fraud Hi everyone I am supposed to be writing a pitch for my next book, but I a) thought you might appreciate a news round up and b) am a world-class procrastinator, so, killing two birds with one stone, here is all the Post Office news which is fit to print:…
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Jason Beer immortalised in wool, El Shaikh writes again, Noel Thomas honoured and I Need Your Vote
Hi everyone Hope you’re doing okay. I have just got back from a family holiday in Barcelona so my brain is a bit fuzzy and full of tapas, but I could not resist sending a newsletter given the wonderful pictures sent in by a web correspondent called Richard Banks. Yes the photo above is a…
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Post Office Inquiry – End of Storey, Another compensation scheme announced for long-suffering Subpostmasters and Otley reminder
Hi everyone I hope you’re surviving the heat. I know I’ve been doing a lot of moaning about the Inquiry recently, but the hearing room’s rather fierce aircon was welcome today. Former Post Office non-executive Susannah Storey was the last witness before summer break. She seemed bright, capable and was either blessed or cursed with…
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Post Office Inquiry – McCausland: Asleep at the Neil
Interesting chap was Mr McCausland. I got the impression that he missed a trick with former Post Office General counsel Susan Crichton. McCausland was clearly a fair but macho director who needed people to make their case well in a business bearpit (see his stuff about advising Paula Vennells that Crichton needed to “get over…
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