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Jan 15, 2025 | 
genderblog.net | Nick Wallis
I was recently contacted by an NHS doctor who is concerned about gender ideology and its capture of his profession. Let’s call him Dr J. Following retirement from full time work, Dr J is currently working in A&E as a locum senior registrar. He trained as a surgeon and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. Dr J has an issue with genital surgery, which he believes is being mis-sold to vulnerable people as a solution to their mental distress.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
genderblog.net | Nick Wallis |Juno Dawson
On 21 May 2024 the Spectator published a piece by the writer Gareth Roberts called “The sad truth about ‘saint’ Nicola Sturgeon“. It described the former Scottish First Minister’s appearance at a literary festival, during which she was interviewed by Juno Dawson.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
postofficescandal.uk | Nick Wallis
I am grateful to the journalist Tom Webb, who specialises in data protection, for alerting me to an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, currently going through the House of Lords. It concerns the legal presumption that “mechanical instruments” (which seems to be taken to include computer networks) are working properly if they look to the user like they’re working properly. This has come in for quite a kicking in recent years.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
postofficescandal.uk | Nick Wallis
Issy Hogg, the criminal defence solicitor for Subpostmasters Jo Hamilton and Seema Misra, has sadly passed away. She was 64 years old. Issy (pronounced “Izzy”) was diagnosed with terminal cancer in March 2020, just before the first Covid lockdown. She was given six months to live – perhaps longer with some challenging treatment.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
postofficescandal.uk | Nick Wallis
The cost of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry is likely to be well over £50,000,000. Reports for the last financial year alone reveal the Inquiry cost £26,198,625 to run, more than the previous three years combined. Figures quietly published on the Inquiry website show that in the twelve months to the end of March 2024, £8m was spent on Inquiry lawyers (with a generous £1.7m going to the Chair, Sir Wyn Williams, and his assessors).
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
postofficescandal.uk | Nick Wallis
Chris Head became Britain’s youngest ever Subpostmaster at the age of 18. In 2006 he was given the keys to the West Bolden branch near Sunderland. According to an interview he gave to The Sun newspaper, Chris had small discrepancies from the start of his tenure. In 2014, Chris says the Post Office’s Horizon IT system at his branch “went out of control“. One week Chris had a £40,000 shortfall. Within a few weeks it had more than doubled to £88,000.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
postofficescandal.uk | Nick Wallis
Lisa Busch KC, one of the most significant unsung heroes in the Post Office scandal, has died after a short illness. Busch represented former Subpostmasters Seema Misra, Janet Skinner and Tracey Felstead at the Court of Appeal Hamilton hearings in 2021 after the barrister Paul Marshall and his junior Flora Page were forced to stand down. It was Busch’s advocacy, using arguments grounded in Marshall and Page’s work, which persuaded the Court of Appeal that the Post Office perpetrated a .
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
postofficescandal.uk | Nick Wallis
The Kemi Badenoch Show came to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry today, along with significant media interest and attendance from a good number of Subpostmasters in the hearing room. Badenoch, as leader of the Conservative Party, is a potential future Prime Minister. She was, until July this year, the Business Secretary. Badenoch had the advantage of becoming (on 7 Feb 2023) a senior minister with responsibility for the Post Office whilst the public inquiry was already up and running.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
postofficescandal.uk | Nick Wallis |Mark Kelly
The third theatrical production concerning the Post Office scandal came to London yesterday. Make Good played to a sold-out Omnibus Theatre in Clapham. The production is put together by a theatre company called Pentabus, with a script from Jeanie O’Hare and music and lyrics by Jim Fortune. Both write in the programme:“This project began with the human impact statements from the Inquiry, followed by a lot of legal and computer stuff.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
postofficescandal.uk | Nick Wallis |Paula Vennells
Sir Alex Chisholm KCB was one of the most powerful government civil servants during a crucial phase of the Post Office scandal, and to nerds like me, his evidence was always going to be of some interest. Chisholm made it quite clear (watch it here) he was crawling all over the Post Office’s disastrous defence to the Bates v Post Office group litigation, but that every duff decision was its to make alone.
