News Round-Up
30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
A senior Post Office executive faces allegations of instructing staff to destroy critical evidence linked to the Horizon IT scandal.
Fujitsu is set to receive a further £180 million in taxpayers' cash to extend its contract to run the scandal-hit Post Office Horizon IT system for a further five years.
A jaw-dropping £3.4 billion in contracts from Treasury-linked organisations has been received by Fujitsu since 2019, despite its known involvement in the Horizon scandal.
The Horizon Post Office scandal has many parallels with the Covid saga, says Ramesh Thakur. Such as the blind faith in technology, the gongs for goons and the deafness to innocent people suffering.
As with the Post Office Horizon scandal, so with the tainted blood scandal – wrongdoing and cover-ups should not take decades to expose. Yet history is repeating itself with the Covid vaccines, says Philip Leith.
Technology has become a cult that seeks absolute control as we yearn for certainty. But the Post Office Horizon scandal shows that, like the gods of old, it will always let us down, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
The Post Office Horizon scandal, where hundreds of workers were condemned as crooks by faulty software no-one really understood, portends a future of digital chaos, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
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