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February 2021
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Book deal klaxon
The Great Post Office Scandal is go I’m delighted to tell you that I have signed a deal with Bath Publishing to write a book about the Post Office Horizon scandal. It has a working title (see above), and it will be available in hardback in Autumn 2021. Bath Publishing are brilliant. They have been…
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Post Office director who tried to mislead a High Court judge brings down Wales football boss
The curse of Angela van den Bogerd Hello again My thanks to a number of people who have drawn my attention to extraordinary developments at the Welsh FA. Jonathan Ford, the organisation’s high-flying chief executive has suffered a humiliating vote of no confidence and has been placed on gardening leave whilst his future is deliberated.…
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Fujitsu were told Horizon IT system did not work shortly before it was rolled out
New whistleblower comes forward In what could be one of the most significant developments in the Horizon story since Fujitsu engineer Richard Roll spoke to Panorama in 2015, a former troubleshooter on the pre-rollout Horizon system has given an interview to Computer Weekly, calling Horizon: “a prototype that had been bloated and hacked together afterwards…
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“I hate the Post Office. I HATE them.”
Whitewash inc. Hello I have finally got round to watching and reading the transcript of the first (and so far only) oral evidence session to be posted up on the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry website. I started writing about it just for this newsletter, but the post got so long I turned it into…
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Harrowing evidence trickles in to the Williams inquiry
Goodbye, lockdown January Hello, lockdown February Apologies for the relative radio silence throughout January. I started doing some work on a side-project which was far harder than I thought it was going to be. I am parking that for a while as the latest chapters in the Post Office Horizon scandal begin to open up…