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We’ve all felt like ‘skint little people’ against the system – that’s why the Post Office drama broke our hearts

Faceless computers have replaced vengeful gods, But the rules of Greek tragedy still apply: the powerful can wreak havoc on human lives, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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‘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

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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…

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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

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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

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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

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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’

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What next for woke ITV after the Post Office drama? Danny Dyer v the sewage scandal?

Mr Bates Vs the Post Office showed us the power of culture to force change. We should use it on our polluted waterways, and Suffolk’s art budget cuts

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What makes a very British miscarriage of justice? Contempt for the ‘little people’

Windrush, Grenfell, the Post Office – all reveal who gets listened to and who gets ignored

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Theresa May’s government ‘pushed for Paula Vennells CBE despite concerns over Post Office scandal’

The former Post Office CEO, who gave up the honour this week following public outcry over the scandal, was nominated for the prestigious award by the Department for Business

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‘A tragedy is not far away’: 25-year-old Post Office memo predicted scandal

A 1999 note highlighted concerns of subpostmasters about the Horizon system and heralded decades of ministerial failings

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The Post Office scandal reveals MPs’ hypocrisy

Now, our leaders laud the subpostmasters; then, they ignored them

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‘I can’t be in league with the devil’: Subpostmaster who quit after the TV drama

For Graham Livesey, who ran a post office in a Cumbrian village, watching Mr Bates vs The Post Office brought back painful memories

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