The Naked Truth of a Broken Society

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A stripped-down truth: society failed at every level. This page offers no analysis—just the bare reality of institutional cruelty and systemic collapse.

1 Look closely. This is what happens when no one stops the machine.
2 Stupidity
3 Well, They Do Say an Englishman’s Home Is His Castle

Beadle’s About – Repossessed Roof

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Watch how absurdity
is passed off as entertainment —
and now compare it to real life.

4 A Broken System

Gareth Jenkins was considered an untrustworthy witness and was not allowed to testify in court again — something that was known from an early stage.

5 Confrontation by Design: The Structure of a Trial

1 Trouble at Post Office – Panorama – 17th August 2015

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17th August 2015
 
Part 1 – the second part, following the outcome of the trials, was due to air on March 23 2020 but was replaced by a Covid 19 programme. Will be shown later this year.

2 Panorama : Scandal at the Post Office BBC Documentary 2020

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12 jun. 2020

Hundreds of postmasters were jailed or financially ruined after a computer system said money was missing from their branches. Now the Post Office has admitted that its Horizon computer system can make mistakes. But when did senior managers find this out, and did they continue to prosecute postmasters for stealing when they knew technology could be to blame? Reporter Nick Wallis investigates what could be Britain’s biggest ever miscarriage of justice scandal and uncovers evidence of a cover-up at the Post Office.
 
 

Janet Skinner

Offence: False accounting
Jurisdiction: England & Wales
County: Surrey
Ethnicity: White
Gender: F
Years in prison: .5
Offence convicted of: False Accounting
Year of crime: 2006
Year of initial conviction: 2007
Year conviction was overturned: 2021

This approach by the Post Office has amounted, in reality, to bare assertions and denials that ignore what has actually occurred…
“It amounts to the 21st century equivalent of maintaining that the earth is flat.”

Deze benadering door het postkantoor komt in feite neer op kale beweringen en ontkenningen die negeren wat er daadwerkelijk is gebeurd. Het komt neer op het 21e-eeuwse equivalent van beweren dat de aarde plat is.

At minute 11:45 Paula Vennells
At minute 24 They couldn’t be mistaken
At minute 27 A government own organisation attacked the integrity of individuals

 

More than 700 branch managers were falsely accused by the Post Office due to faulty accounting software.

Janet Skinner, from Hull, whose conviction was among 86 that were later overturned, said she was “infuriated” and would reject the deal.

The Post Office minister had said the sum was offered with “no ifs or buts”.

Between 2000 and 2014, the Post Office prosecuted 736 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses based on “flawed” information from a computer system called Horizon.

Described as the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history, dozens of convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal in April 2021, subsequently paving the way for others to be overturned.

Ms Skinner, 52, was handed a nine-month sentence in 2007 over an alleged shortfall of £59,000 from her Post Office branch in Bransholme, Hull.

She served three months in prison before being released with an electronic tag, but eventually had her conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal in April 2021.

The stress of the case had meant she ended up in hospital for four months after she became paralysed and had to learn to walk again, she said.

Ms Skinner continues to pursue legal action over her case.

6 Trump vs Harvard: Woke at the University

Trump vs Harvard: woke aan de universiteit

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The prestigious American university Harvard is positioning itself as a symbol of resistance against political interference by the Trump administration. It is taking legal action against the freezing of billions in federal funding. Professor Alain-Laurent Verbeke, who has been teaching at Harvard for nearly twenty years, considers the way Trump is enforcing his demands unacceptable and unlawful. However, he does understand the call for greater diversity of opinion and warns against intolerant and radical woke ideology.
VRT NWS    April 23, 2025

Zijn universiteiten woke? | Alain-Laurent Verbeke | Buitenhof

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20 apr 2025

Een gesprek Alain-Laurent Verbeke, hoogleraar aan Harvard en hoogleraar Rechten van de KU Leuven, over hoe Trump de vrijheid de academische vrijheid ondermijnt, waarom Trump niet onderhandelt maar dicteert en waarom universiteiten meer ruimte voor verschillende meningen moeten bieden.

A conversation with Alain-Laurent Verbeke, professor at Harvard and professor of Law at KU Leuven, about how Trump undermines academic freedom, why Trump dictates rather than negotiates, and why universities must offer more space for diverse opinions.

Listening Ourselves Out of Polarization | Alain Laurent Verbeke | TEDxKULSalon

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How to keep conversation alive in a polarized world | Jason Jay | TEDxBocaRaton

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