Technology had changed Tony Collins' work as a journalist even before he joined Computer Weekly and led some of the highest-profile investigations of the era

By Tony Collins “To my shame I didn’t know very much about this,” said actor Toby Jones. He was speaking at a press screening at BAFTA of “Mr Bates v The Post Office“, a star-studded ITV drama series on the Post Office IT scandal. The series has…

Sir Humphrey, permanent secretary at the fictional Department for Administrative Affairs, and his minister Jim Hacker, discuss (below) the Post Office IT scandal. By Tony Collins Hacker: Ah Humphre…

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill Photo by Shane Rounce on Unsplash By Tony Collins Why the Post Office IT scandal happened and…

Sir Wyn Williams, chairman, Post Office Horizon Inquiry The scandal’s fixable and unfixable underlying causes By Tony Collins Retired judge Sir Wyn Williams deserves much credit for the sensitive a…

By Tony Collins The Post Office’s maximum legal costs over the Horizon IT scandal are estimated to be about £177m – 16 times the compensation received by 500 victims whose High Court case exposed the UK’s widest miscarriage of justice. A breakdown of…

By Tony Collins Post Office lawyers are to be investigated over claims that sub-postmasters were bullied into admitting crimes they didn’t commit, said the Sunday Mirror yesterday. The Sunday Times also has a story yesterday under the headline “Post…

By Tony Collins A cross-party committee of MPs has called on the government to commit urgently to “ensuring that the 555 are fully compensated for all of their losses on the same basis as other victims of this scandal receiving compensation”. The…

Among the systemic reasons for around £40bn of IT-related failures may be truth decay, excessive secrecy, no consequences for getting it wrong and the misleading of Parliament – a decades-old “conc…

Last week Campaign4Change published a list of major IT projects where, when things went seriously wrong, Parliament was not told the whole truth and sometimes nothing like the truth. The article said that, among the systemic reasons for around £40bn…