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September 2024
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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…