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Post Office Inquiry: Swinson points the finger at Callard and Vennells
Good morning! Two people gave evidence yesterday – former Post Office minister Jo Swinson and former CEO of Royal Mail Group, Dame Moya Greene. For reasons which will become clear I focused solely on what Swinson had to say and wrote it up here: Furious Swinson claimed Paula Vennells deceived her Having slept on it,…
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Post Office Inquiry: McFadden and Davey
Good morning I managed to put up two blog posts yesterday – one on Pat “Magic” McFadden – former Post Office minister and current Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and the second on Sir Ed Davey – former Post Office minister and current leader of the Liberal Democrats. McFadden gave evidence to the Post…
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Post Office Inquiry: Ken “I don’t” McCall and Calamity Kelly
Good morning friends One day this will all seem like a bad dream. Right now we’re all living it. Here is a link to my lengthy report on yesterday’s evidence – it’s called: Comical Ken and Captain Kelly Today we are going to hear from another Postal Affairs Minister – Sir Ed Davey, leader of…
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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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