@feorag @ianb

No. It will be another "Horizon".

#Coventry has a long record of being a early adopter. It had the first pedestrianized shopping precinct in Europe, for example.

But it also has a long record of technical debt. By the 1980s, 30 years in, the shopping precinct was a decaying mess.

The Coventry ring road, designed in the late 1950s, was a lesson to people in the 1960s and later on how *not* to design ring roads.

Coventry seems on course to be teaching the world another lesson soon.

#PostOfficeHorizon #AI #LocalGovernment #Palantir

@FraumitFahrrad Absolut. Es ist ein Skandal, dass der vermutlich größte Justizskandal der Geschichte der UK außerhalb Großbritanniens fast unbekannt ist. Die Grundprämisse in der Rechtsprechung war (und ist theoretisch noch immer) dort: "Software funktioniert perfekt, solange nicht das Gegenteil bewiesen ist". Diese Annahme, der die Gerichte folgen mussten, hat buchstäblich Hunderte Leben zerstört. Die Post-Office-Software "Horizon" verrechnete sich (weil hanebüchen stümperhaft programmiert), so dass es so aussah, als hätten Sub-Postmaster hohe Summen unterschlagen, ohne dass diese auch nur den Hauch einer Chance hatten, ihre Unschuld zu beweisen. Das ging mehrere Jahrzehnte lang; viele verloren Haus und Familie, und einige wurden in den Suizid getrieben.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal-Mail-Horizon-Skandal

#horizon #postofficehorizon #royalmail

Royal-Mail-Horizon-Skandal – Wikipedia

Does #sunak owe #paulavennells ?

Will #sunak need her?

His announcement takes all the attention from her.

#postofficehorizon

Paula Vennells, being a priest, will absolve herself of all her sins.

GOD FORGIVES HER.

That is okay with all you christians?

FFS

#postofficehorizon #paulavennells

Dear Prime Minister, @RishiSunak, please speak with the Monarch, King Charles III, @RoyalFamily, regarding offering a peerage to Alan Bates - for information, over 40,000 have signed the petition below in the first few weeks! @UKChange
#PostOfficeHorizon
https://chng.it/zDXqX8zg
A peerage for Alan Bates - over 40,000 have signed the petition in the first few weeks!

We urge the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and the Monarch, King Charles III, to note the strength of support for this petition - which over 40,000 have signed in the first few weeks - a testament to the widespread support for the appointment of Alan Bates as a life peer! Thank you again for your support which is both valued and much appreciated.    

Change.org

The FT on the role that racism played in the #PostOfficeHorizon scandal, with broader commentry on DEI. Sharing because I think there is a need to continue to emphasize this aspect.

GIft link: https://on.ft.com/4bmpFvJ

https://www.ft.com/content/26ec70e8-38e6-453e-bc84-6737719b7b6b

Post Office scandal sounds warning on diversity backlash

Experts say treatment of victims warrants investigation into whether race played a role — and boardrooms should pay attention

Financial Times
🔊Appoint Alan Bates as a Life Peer
✍️He has played a crucial role in fighting for justice for subpostmasters affected by the #PostOfficeHorizon scandal - to ensure that those wrongly convicted in the scandal are now treated fairly.
🗳️Please sign and share
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Appoint Alan Bates as a Life Peer

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Lies have a way of radiating outwards: the software was working well (or so everyone was told), so subpostmasters were looking suspiciously at everyone with a key to the till. Their family, their trusted employees.
💔

I think we'd all like to imagine we would be smart enough to identify the root of the problem ('it MUST be the software'), smart enough to KNOW which of our friends would steal (including absolute certainty in deciding 'none of them').

#PostOfficeHorizon
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-67961443

Post Office inquiry: 'My wife died not knowing who was stealing'

Former sub-postmaster John Heath says the Post Office scandal "destroyed" his family.

BBC News
How the legal system made it so easy for the Post Office to destroy the lives of the sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses – and how the legal system then made it so hard for them to obtain justice

12th January 2024 The Post Office Horizon scandal is both simple and complex, straightforward but also difficult to grasp in all its interconnected detail. The essence of the scandal is, of course,…

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