Post Office scandal calls for reflection and justice

‘The collective stories of the many victims can lead to new cultural narratives with the potential to reform.’ Photograph: Getty

The welcome but belated recognition by MPs of the terrible injustice done to subpostmasters needs reflection after more urgent issues are addressed (Horizon scandal: hundreds of post office operators to have convictions quashed, 10 January).

We should accept that failures will happen, but our political institutions are poorly suited to handling this inevitability. Instead, trivial party point-scoring takes precedence over serious scrutiny. Two decades ago, this resulted in Labour boasting of the speed with which it was introducing Horizon.