The Horizon Post Office scandal and Lionel Rishi

Pod Save the UK

News, News Commentary, Government

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Why did it take a TV drama to wake politicians up to what’s been described as the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history? More than 700 sub-postmasters were convicted of theft, due to accounting discrepancies caused by the Post Office’s faulty computer system. ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office caused public outrage and has forced the Government into taking unprecedented action. James Harding, former BBC director of News and Current Affairs, joins Nish and Coco to discuss what lessons journalism can learn from the saga.

With the UK, like much of Western Europe, recording historically low birthrates, Nish and Coco wonder why it only seems to be politicians on the right who ever engage with it as an issue. Is it a simple matter of economics, or maybe it’s just 14 years of Conservative Government that’s killed the mood!

Plus Keir Starmer’s glitter-bomber makes a surprise appearance, we find out Coco’s unusual choice of pool nickname, and why the PM is ‘dancing on the ceiling’.

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Guest:

James Harding, co-founder and editor at Tortoise Media

Audio credits:

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0:00.0	Hi this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Nishkabar and I'm Coco Khan. This week we'll ask
0:17.0	why it's taken so long for politicians to wake up to the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK legal history.
0:24.0	Did justice get lost in the post?
0:27.0	We'll be discussing how and why the I TV drama Mr Bates versus the post office
0:31.0	has shaped this week's news agenda with our special
0:33.8	guests the former BBC director of news and editor of the Times James Harding.
0:41.6	Hi Coco, happy new year! Happy New Year Nish. We're back. We are back
0:46.5	24 baby. Year of the dragon can I just say? Is it the year of the dragon?
0:50.9	Yes hello. That's my year. Dragon baby.
0:55.8	Well how was your Christmas and New Year period? Well, it was busy. I'm a pool player now.
1:02.0	Yes, so we have discussed this.
1:04.0	You are now becoming a pool player, like Paul Newman and the Hustler.
1:08.0	Yeah, exactly that. I'm so excited!
1:11.0	Talk me through all of this.
1:12.0	So you've decided 2024 is the year that you're going to take up pool.
1:15.0	Yeah, so there's a trope in film and TV of the woman who walks into a bar and it's full of men and she, you know know plays a bit of pool and everyone's like what
1:24.4	is this lady with her elegant long fingers and large breasts doing in here she
1:28.6	can't possibly pay for that is how that's bang. Well little what they don't realize.
1:34.0	We focus mainly on the elegant long fingers and the large breasts.
1:37.0	But what they don't realize right is that a long finger that's basically like an
1:42.0	aiming device that gives you precision and
1:44.5	the breast give you elevation. Women are born to play pool and so I have got this
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