ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office dramatises over four one-hour episodes one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history. But this appalling story also features the best in grassroots activism and British journalism.
As Lord Arbuthnot, a great advocate for the victims of the scandal, put it in a 2020 BBC Panorama programme: “A government-owned organisation attacked, on the basis of false evidence, the integrity of so many pillars of the community.”
