Fixing Horizon bugs would have been too costly, Post Office inquiry told Asked about ‘missed opportunity’ to address problem, Fujitsu developer says focus was on replacing Horizon The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2024
The Guardian view on Mr Bates vs the Post Office: Britain needs more state-of-the-nation TV Editorial: In a world dominated by global streamers, the search for international audiences must not crowd out domestically focused drama The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2024
Post Office IT scandal: minister asks Fujitsu for talks on payouts for victims Kemi Badenoch’s letter on share of compensation comes after $1bn wiped off Fujitsu’s value The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2024
Wednesday briefing: The days that could decide how Rishi Sunak is remembered In today’s newsletter: The controversial Rwanda bill is back in the Commons – what happens next could shape the party’s future The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2024
Sue Carr hits back and tells Sunak: the judiciary won’t be cowed England and Wales’s first lady chief justice has rattled the cages of those in government who had declared open season on judges The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024
Tories reach new levels of derangement as MPs debate Rwanda bill Nothing illustrates party’s ongoing meltdown better than its obsession with scheme that is never going to work The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024
Fujitsu still providing Horizon IT data for use in Post Office legal actions Tech company knew of faults in system it used to extract data on transactions as early as 2008, inquiry hears The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024
Fujitsu should be on the hook for hundreds of millions of pounds in redress Yes, the Post Office pursued the prosecutions but Fujitsu provided the star witnesses and the dodgy software The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024
Post Office Horizon scandal: Scotland’s top prosecutor apologises ‘profusely’ to victims Lord advocate ‘acutely concerned’ at manner in which Post Office officials ‘repeatedly misled’ prosecutors The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024
Fujitsu IT support workers who protect HMRC systems to go on strike Industrial action over pay starting on Wednesday could affect processing of self-assessment tax returns and is unrelated to Post Office scandal The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024
Fujitsu Says Morally Obliged To Compensate Wronged UK Postmasters Fujitsu has a moral obligation to help compensate UK postmasters wrongly convicted because of a bug in its accounting software, its European director said on Tuesday. International Business Times · Jan 16, 2024
Fujitsu admits for first time it should help compensate Post Office victims European boss says company has ‘moral obligation’ to contribute but exact sum will have to wait until end of inquiry The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024
Post Office scandal: Fujitsu boss apologies to Horizon victims as inquiry hears company 'knew of tech problem' Internal records from the tech firm which created Horizon reveal discussions about 'duplicate transactions' within the troubled IT system Evening Standard · Jan 16, 2024
I thought Mr Bates vs The Post Office might not work, says star Toby Jones The team behind the hit ITV drama had low expectations throughout Evening Standard · Jan 16, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024 TechScape: Why big tech could learn big lessons from the Post Office Horizon scandal In this week’s newsletter: To see where an IT flaw became a crisis, you have to look past the technology altogether. Plus, Substack’s biggest names jump ship
The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024 Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resign over Rwanda bill – as it happened Jane Stevenson joins Conservative party’s deputy chairs in resigning on a bruising night for Rishi Sunak
The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024 Fujitsu has ‘moral obligation’ to contribute to Post Office compensation, Europe boss says, as Alan Bates warns ‘people are dying waiting’ – as it happened Post Office CEO Nick Read and Fujitsu Europe boss Paul Patterson give evidence to business committee about Horizon IT scandal
The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024 Do you really think ministers will get justice for Post Office victims? Ask the Windrush families and think again Lives destroyed, injustices ignored: parallels between the two scandals are stark, says the Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman
The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2024 ‘How much is Fujitsu going to pay?’ Questions for Post Office IT firm as it faces MPs Company that built ill-fated system also comes under separate scrutiny from judge-led inquiry
The Conversation · Jan 15, 2024 Post Office Horizon scandal: four reasons why the government's model for outsourcing is broken For over a decade, the Post Office and its supplier, Fujitsu, insisted that the Horizon system used in its branches was completely “robust”. When discrepancies appeared in hundreds of branch accounts across the country, the Post Office refused to believe the system was at fault and didn’t challenge the information…
Evening Standard · Jan 15, 2024 OPINION - The Standard View: Sir Ed Davey should quit over the Post Office scandal That it took an ITV television drama to force the political establishment to turn its attention to the egregious nature of the Post Office scandal is perhaps for another day. Now is the time for heads to roll.
Evening Standard · Jan 15, 2024 Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey facing fresh calls to quit over Post Office scandal Sir Ed's failed first test of leadership, say critics as he faces challenge from ex-postmistress
The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2024 The Post Office scandal is a rare moment of catharsis. Now, we must channel that rage The story has united a nation. Such consensus is rare, and we should refuse to pin the blame on a few bad apples, says author and philosopher Julian Baggini
The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2024 Post office owner convicted of wife’s murder denies jumping on ‘Horizon bandwagon’ Exclusive: Robin Garbutt says faulty Post Office computer system is not only misleading evidence used to convict him
The Guardian - UK · Jan 14, 2024 Cameron cannot recall ‘in any detail’ being briefed on Horizon scandal as PM Foreign secretary says anyone involved in government in past two decades has ‘got to be extremely sorry’