Buy a sports car or start a podcast. It all could have gone the way of a new hobby, with audio kit languishing in a drawer. Instead, this podcast has become a study and celebration of the tricky craft of public service, and it's a source of pure joy for us. Reflecting on three years of TWT: Humble and haphazard beginningsWhat’s changed since the Robodebt Royal Commission Our favourite interviews, scandals, episodesLifting the veil on moments of chaosOur favourite moments with...
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Buy a sports car or start a podcast. It all could have gone the way of a new hobby, with audio kit languishing in a drawer. Instead, this podcast has become a study and celebration of the tricky craft of public service, and it's a source of pure joy for us. Reflecting on three years of TWT: Humble and haphazard beginningsWhat’s changed since the Robodebt Royal Commission Our favourite interviews, scandals, episodesLifting the veil on moments of chaosOur favourite moments with...
Mr Bates v Post Office part 2 - what happens when a PM is faced with no good choices
The Westminster Tradition
31 minutes
1 year ago
Mr Bates v Post Office part 2 - what happens when a PM is faced with no good choices
Why was the Post Office's Horizon IT system so error ridden in the first place? And is the false conviction of nearly 1000 postmasters really Tony Blair's fault in the end? (Spoiler alert: probably not.) In this episode, Caroline takes us through why Horizon was probably doomed from the start, with Post Office and the Benefits Agency shackled together to buy an ICT system through an elaborately structured, too clever by half Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Among other things, we talk abo...
The Westminster Tradition
Buy a sports car or start a podcast. It all could have gone the way of a new hobby, with audio kit languishing in a drawer. Instead, this podcast has become a study and celebration of the tricky craft of public service, and it's a source of pure joy for us. Reflecting on three years of TWT: Humble and haphazard beginningsWhat’s changed since the Robodebt Royal Commission Our favourite interviews, scandals, episodesLifting the veil on moments of chaosOur favourite moments with...
