Freelance journalist. Currently acting deputy editor at @Drapers, and covering Post Office when I can https://xitter.cf/t.co/R9vXX2IidG
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“Thugs in suits” “rotten to the core” “living in the 18th century” - reaction to Post Office use of racist terms to describe postmasters: “The very people who oversaw this rotten culture are not being held to account… there’s got to be a day of reckoning.” With @Rebeccathomson_
The Post Office was described last night as “rotten to the core” after internal documents showed it had used racist terms to classify postmasters it wrongly investigated for fraud
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Our podcast this week - bankrupt postmasters are having huge chunks of payouts taken to pay debtors, others are being offered far less than they should be, and some have waited years for nothing so far.
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It's not online but @HugoCDaniel and I have a story on bankrupt postmasters being offered half their interim compensation in today's Sunday Times.
Big thank you @DeirdreC65
This week at the Post Office inquiry - the last week of phase 2 packed in the witnesses, from secretaries of state to union leaders. The common theme was no-one was checking that the tech worked for postmasters. audioboom.com/posts/8206750-…
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The last two weeks of the Post Office inquiry have offered glimpses of how people and crucial info were silenced in the early days of Horizon: rebeccathomson.substack.com/…
Which is also explored in our latest podcast:
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Rebecca Thomson retweeted
New Investigating the Post Office Scandal Podcast from Rebecca and Nick out now!
Ep: 23 - Byers Beware - evidence on the Horizon Scandal from a former Secretary of State:
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This week at the Post Office inquiry: the Horizon death march, dissenting voices being silenced, and an unexplained leap in requests for audit data @nickwallis audioboom.com/posts/8198046-…
The Post Office inquiry this week: lots of tech, unauthorized access to Post Office counter systems, and mistrusting journalists: audioboom.com/posts/8195130-… @nickwallis
Our interview with Lord Arbuthnot covers how he got involved with the Post Office scandal, why people didn't take it seriously for so long, and multiple missed opportunities to put it right @nickwallis #postofficescandal audioboom.com/posts/8192487-…
The Post Office inquiry this week - confirmation bias, software that needed to be re-written, and postmasters being systemically ignored in the late 90s audioboom.com/posts/8189340-…
Our podcast and a quick round-up of week one, phase two of the Post Office inquiry, including the potential role of Whitehall's culture.
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No date given for compensating 'most desperate' Post Office victims rebeccathomson.substack.com/… #postofficescandal
As @nickwallis has tweeted we are covering the Post Office inquiry from today and hope to produce a weekly round-up podcast and articles. We're doing this via crowdfunding, and will be very grateful to anyone able to support postofficescandal.uk/post/cr…
Key questions for the next phase of the Post Office public inquiry, which re-starts this week rebeccathomson.substack.com/…
Big thank you to the brilliant @CastletonLee for speaking to me for our latest podcast episode. One of the first postmasters affected by the Horizon scandal, he is so interesting on every aspect of the Post Office saga and British scandals more broadly audioboom.com/posts/8156279-…
Rebecca Thomson retweeted
Secret 2016 Post Office chairman's report into Horizon scandal not shared with PO Board - a "significant error of judgment" taken on legal advice.
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On episode 7 of the Post Office podcast, we interviewed @HannahQuirk1, an expert in miscarriages of justice who is working on unraveling the long-term implications of the case audioboom.com/posts/8135417-…
Should those who sent postmasters to prison be investigated for perversion of the course of justice? Great piece by @sabahmeddings with me and @HugoCDaniel and thanks to @PaulMar72224296
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Big thank you to postmaster Richard Hawkes & Prof @RichardMoorhead on this week's Post Office podcast - we talk perversion of the course of justice, potential racial disparities in postmaster treatment, & the role of lawyers/implications for the profession postofficescandal.uk/post/po…
Five more Post Office convictions overturned yesterday rebeccathomson.substack.com/…