The Latest Breaking News from the Post Office

Nothing illustrates party’s ongoing meltdown better than its obsession with scheme that is never going to work

Tech company knew of faults in system it used to extract data on transactions as early as 2008, inquiry hears

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

Post Office CEO Nick Read and Fujitsu Europe boss Paul Patterson give evidence to business committee about Horizon IT scandal

Lives destroyed, injustices ignored: parallels between the two scandals are stark, says the Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman

Company that built ill-fated system also comes under separate scrutiny from judge-led inquiry

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…

Sir Ed's failed first test of leadership, say critics as he faces challenge from ex-postmistress

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