Trust is a judgement
that someone else can be relied upon or
that some institution can relied on.
It isn’t proof.
Trust is what we do when we need a shortcut.
Please listen to the BBC MP3 of philosopher, Onora O’Neill.
The big idea: the new distrust (about 10 minutes)
Paula Vennells Denied Review That Could Have Uncovered Post Office Scandal
24 mei 2024
Paula Vennells’ Decision Delayed Horizon IT Scandal Exposure – Inquiry Reveals Shocking Details”
Post Office Inquiry: Fujitsu boss labels editing of witness statements in prosecutions ‘shameful’
19 jan 2024
Fujitsu’s European boss has described the editing of witness statements to defend the Horizon IT system that were used in the prosecutions of subpostmasters as “shameful”.
Paul Patterson told the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry that he was “surprised” that details of bugs, errors and defects (BEDs) in the scandal-hit software were not included in witness statements for criminal proceedings against subpostmasters.
He admitted that BEDs had existed in the system for “nearly two decades” and said the “vast majority” had been shared with the Post Office contemporaneously.
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Post Office Inquiry: Audience moan as Paula Vennells can’t recall key details | ITV News
24 mei 2024
As former Post Office boss Paula Vennells was questioned for a second day at the UK inquiry, members of the audience groaned in frustration as she failed to recall some key details.
ITV News Reporter Ellie Pitt spoke to one former sub-postmaster who was imprisoned while pregnant, who heard how the Post Office advised that including her in a case review “would be a rag to a bull”.
Paula Vennells accused of ‘keeping a lid’ on Post Office scandal during grilling by victims’ lawyer
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24 mei 2024
Paula Vennells told the Horizon IT Inquiry she did her “very best” but accepted “it wasn’t good enough”.
Edward Henry KC, on behalf of a number of subpostmasters, said: “I suggest to you that you still continue to live in a cloud of denial and it persists even to today because you have given in 750-odd pages (of a witness statement) a craven, self-serving account haven’t you? ‘I didn’t know, nobody told me, I can’t remember, I was not shown this, I relied on the lawyers’.”
Ms Vennells replied: “I have tried to do this to the very best of my ability. I have taken… all of the questions I was asked. I have answered them honestly, no matter how difficult or how embarrassing or how wrong I was at the time. I don’t believe I could have worked harder for this.”
Mr Henry went on: “What I’m going to suggest to you is that whatever you did was deliberate, considered and calculated. No one deceived you, no one misled you. You set the agenda and the tone for the business.”
Ms Vennells responded: “I was the chief executive, I did not set the agenda for the work of the scheme and the way the legal and the IT parts of it worked.
“I had to rely on those colleagues who were experts and I had no reason not to take the advice that I was given. I accept I was chief executive and, as I have said, as a chief executive you have ultimate accountability and that is simply fact.
“You are not responsible for everything that happens underneath you. You have to rely on the advice of internal and external experts and that is what I did and I was not working alone on this.”
She added: “I did my very best through this, and it wasn’t good enough, and that is a regret I carry with me.”
Begging Hobo Drives Off In A Sports Car
18 nov 2019
This is a reminder to everyone that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, or in this case, a man by how much garbage he eats.