UK Post Office: 700 Horizon software scandal victims to receive £600k each

Re:UK Post Office: 700 Horizon software scandal victims to r... by toyg on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:13AM (#37565831)

I think part of the reason for relative quietness is: after 30 years of privatisation drives, what is left of the Post Office is just another business with some extra regulatory burden. "Business Screwing Up" happens every day and is hardly news.

This said, thank goodness some free press still exists in the UK. Without Private Eye, these folks would never have seen even the little justice they received.

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Re:UK Post Office: 700 Horizon software scandal victims to r... by psd1 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @10:13AM (#37570223)

I don't think that's really it - the public has some appetite for corporate scandal, modulo short attentive spans, and the human element really sells the story.

Unfortunately, we absolutely do have a free press here, it's just been captured by bastards who use their freedom to aid and abet other bastards. I hope hell is inventing new tortures for Murdoch and the dead Barclay.

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