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Rebecca Thomson

@rebeccathomson_

Freelance journalist.
Currently acting deputy editor at @Drapers, and covering Post Office when I can
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Big thank you to postmaster Richard Hawkes & Prof @RichardMoorhead on this week's Post Office podcast - we talk perversion of the course of justice, potential racial disparities in postmaster treatment, & the role of lawyers/implications for the profession postofficescandal.uk/post/podcast-e…

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Should those who sent postmasters to prison be investigated for perversion of the course of justice? Great piece by Sabah Meddings with me and Hugo Daniel and thanks to Paul Marshall thetimes.co.uk/article/4397bc…

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On episode 7 of the Post Office podcast, we interviewed @HannahQuirk1, an expert in miscarriages of justice who is working on unraveling the long-term implications of the case audioboom.com/posts/8135417-…

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Secret 2016 Post Office chairman's report into Horizon scandal not shared with PO Board - a "significant error of judgment" taken on legal advice. postofficescandal.uk/post/secret-20…

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Big thank you to the brilliant Lee Castleton OBE for speaking to me for our latest podcast episode. One of the first postmasters affected by the Horizon scandal, he is so interesting on every aspect of the Post Office saga and British scandals more broadly audioboom.com/posts/8156279-…

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Key questions for the next phase of the Post Office public inquiry, which re-starts this week rebeccathomson.substack.com/p/key-question…

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As Nick Wallis has tweeted we are covering the Post Office inquiry from today and hope to produce a weekly round-up podcast and articles. We're doing this via crowdfunding, and will be very grateful to anyone able to support postofficescandal.uk/post/crowdfund…

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No date given for compensating 'most desperate' Post Office victims rebeccathomson.substack.com/p/no-date-give… #postofficescandal

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Our podcast and a quick round-up of week one, phase two of the Post Office inquiry, including the potential role of Whitehall's culture. audioboom.com/posts/8174995-… rebeccathomson.substack.com/p/week-one-pha…

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The Post Office inquiry this week - confirmation bias, software that needed to be re-written, and postmasters being systemically ignored in the late 90s audioboom.com/posts/8189340-…

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Our interview with Lord Arbuthnot covers how he got involved with the Post Office scandal, why people didn't take it seriously for so long, and multiple missed opportunities to put it right Nick Wallis #postofficescandal audioboom.com/posts/8192487-…

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The Post Office inquiry this week: lots of tech, unauthorized access to Post Office counter systems, and mistrusting journalists: audioboom.com/posts/8195130-… Nick Wallis

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This week at the Post Office inquiry: the Horizon death march, dissenting voices being silenced, and an unexplained leap in requests for audit data Nick Wallis audioboom.com/posts/8198046-…

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New Investigating the Post Office Scandal Podcast from Rebecca and Nick out now! Ep: 23 - Byers Beware - evidence on the Horizon Scandal from a former Secretary of State: audioboom.com/posts/8202600-… #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal Rebecca Thomson

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The last two weeks of the Post Office inquiry have offered glimpses of how people and crucial info were silenced in the early days of Horizon: rebeccathomson.substack.com/p/silencing-wi… Which is also explored in our latest podcast: audioboom.com/posts/8202600-…

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This week at the Post Office inquiry - the last week of phase 2 packed in the witnesses, from secretaries of state to union leaders. The common theme was no-one was checking that the tech worked for postmasters. audioboom.com/posts/8206750-… Nick Wallis

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It's not online but Hugo Daniel and I have a story on bankrupt postmasters being offered half their interim compensation in today's Sunday Times. Big thank you Deirdre Connolly

It's not online but <a href="/HugoCDaniel/">Hugo Daniel</a> and I have a story on bankrupt postmasters being offered half their interim compensation in today's Sunday Times. 
Big thank you <a href="/DeirdreC65/">Deirdre Connolly</a>
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Our podcast this week - bankrupt postmasters are having huge chunks of payouts taken to pay debtors, others are being offered far less than they should be, and some have waited years for nothing so far. Nick Wallis audioboom.com/posts/8211156-…

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“Thugs in suits” “rotten to the core” “living in the 18th century” - reaction to Post Office use of racist terms to describe postmasters: “The very people who oversaw this rotten culture are not being held to account… there’s got to be a day of reckoning.” With Rebecca Thomson