‘Post Office scandal is one among largest miscarriages of justice in Brit historical past’
Injustice will not be over
Billed as the best miscarriage of justice in British historical past, the Post Office scandal can also be one of many priciest with prices to the taxpayer topping £1billion.
There might be no amount of cash that would adequately compensate the 555 postmasters wrongly accused of theft. This contains these grotesquely jailed and dying earlier than they knew they’d been cleared.
It is subsequently no shock that so many households proceed to really feel aggrieved. Lawyers working for the Post Office because it doggedly fought to disclaim flaws within the Horizon IT system acquired a lot of that £1billion.
Solicitors representing the harmless deserve their charges. Yet the official therapy of the postmasters stays appalling. As we enter 2024 it’s scandalous they’re nonetheless battling for justice and for these liable for their struggling to be held to account.
Mone alone
It’s a bit wealthy that VIP lane PPE peer Michelle Mone and her tycoon husband Doug Barrowman are portray themselves as victims following their fireplace sale of an estimated £80million of property.
Jet set baubles they’re letting go embrace luxurious properties, a personal jet and a superyacht. Millions of hard-pressed households will really feel so sorry for them. This self-pitying couple made a fortune promoting what’s claimed to be shoddy and unusable gear with taxpayers paying the invoice.
It appears a really dangerous, costly association throughout a nationwide and worldwide disaster. Instead of feeling sympathy for the pair on a regular basis Britons who picked up the tab for the Covid deal will see the size of their spending and life-style and be revolted by it.
What the Henk
Storm Henk sweeping in to batter Britain after the Met Office topped 2023 the UK’s second-hottest yr on document
underlines scientists’ warnings.
They imagine the local weather disaster is fuelling ferocious swings on the earth’s climate. Henk is one other signal that they may very well be proper.
