Britishness, common sense, Computers, Culture, Truth

Getting Their Reputations Back–The Royal Mail Horizon Scandal Staggers to the Finish Line, Courtesy of ITV

A bit more than three years ago, I wrote a post on Ricochet, When  Computers Rule, about the Royal Mail scandal involving Fujitsu’s Horizon software and the plight of hundreds of UK “sub-postmasters”  who’d been accused, prosecuted and convicted for fraud because, once the Fujitsu software system was implemented for Post Office management, their accounts… Continue reading Getting Their Reputations Back–The Royal Mail Horizon Scandal Staggers to the Finish Line, Courtesy of ITV

Plain Speaking, Politics, Technology

“Which office do I go to, to get my reputation back?”

Those words were famously spoken by Raymond Donovan, Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Labor, after his 1987 acquittal on fraud and grand larceny charges in the State of New York. Perhaps thirty-nine British sub-postmasters posed that question yesterday.  (Well not quite thirty-nine, because before some of them got the chance to inquire, they died–their families and themselves… Continue reading “Which office do I go to, to get my reputation back?”