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Do you feel stuck? It’s time to simplify your thinking

Our minds often seek to muddle rather than clarify. But we have the power to notice this in ourselves, and others

The Guardian - UK

Ministers explore plan to hand Post Office to subpostmasters

Campaigner Alan Bates says mutualisation won’t work as organisation will continue to need government subsidies

The Guardian - UK

Post office operators will not all get payouts by March deadline, says minister

Gareth Thomas admits compensation date for those caught up in Horizon IT scandal difficult to achieve

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Post Office scandal hero Sir Alan Bates awarded knighthood at Windsor Castle

Sir Alan Bates said he was ‘honoured’ to receive a knighthood

The Independent UK

Britain's CEO of scandal-ridden Post Office will step down next year

The chief executive of Britain’s scandal-ridden Post Office will step down next year

The Independent UK

Will Mellor 'honoured' to be part of Mr Bates Vs The Post Office amid NTAs triumph

Mr Bates Vs The Post Office star Will Mellor discusses working on the National TV Award-winning drama and teases future roles...

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All the winners at the National Television Awards 2024: Peter Ash and Ant & Dec take prizes

Mr Bates vs The Post Office adds gong to critical acclaim

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How to watch Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact online or on TV

Here's how you can watch Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact online, ready for when it airs on Monday, September 9.

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Post Office campaigner Sir Alan Bates gets married on Richard Branson’s Necker Island

Sir Alan received a knighthood in June 2024 for campaigning around the Post Office scandal.

The Independent UK

Post Office campaigner Alan Bates marries partner on Richard Branson’s private island

Bates and Suzanne Sercombe invited to Necker Island after publicly soliciting a holiday from Virgin tycoon

The Guardian - UK

Shocking badger cull film on BBC will prompt anger like Post Office scandal drama, claims Queen star Brian May

‘Dynamite’ claims come two days after government performed U-turn on election pledge to stop killing native mammal

The Independent UK

Nothing But the Best review – raffish Alan Bates comedy is a time capsule of 60s London

Millicent Martin and Denholm Elliott also star in Clive Donner’s 1964 satire on class, filled with macabre twists

The Guardian - UK

The best TV of 2024 so far, from Mr Bates vs The Post Office to Big Boys

This year we’ve already had dramas that have changed the world, reality TV that’s made us scream at the telly, and romcoms that have made us cry, writes Ellie Harrison

The Independent UK

‘I read the new scripts and nearly died!’: the return of Sherwood – the drama that gripped a nation

James Graham’s series about a divided former mining town was a genre-defying smash. So where does they go with series two? The writer and stars talk about guns, Keir Starmer and 2022’s most unpredictable plot twist

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Toxic culture, poor leadership: what Horizon inquiry has told us so far

As latest phase of inquiry concludes – with final stage set to begin in September – we itemise the key takeaways

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of Post Office victims to get access to new compensation scheme

About 900 operators with overturned convictions offered fixed settlement of £600,000 or can proceed to full claim

The Guardian - UK

Post Office managers were ‘thugs in suits’, Vince Cable tells inquiry

Former business secretary claims he would have got to grips with Horizon IT scandal if MPs had come to speak to him

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Jo Swinson criticises ‘duplicitous’ civil servants at Post Office inquiry

Former postal affairs minister says conduct of some civil servants was ‘Orwellian’ and raises questions of objectivity

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Exit Bungee-jumping Ed, enter Shifty Ed as Davey attends the Post Office inquiry

Ed couldn’t recall his first letter from Alan Bates but couldn’t explain why he replied telling Bates to stop bothering him

The Independent UK

Post Office Horizon IT scandal: Lib Dem leader Ed Davey apologises to Alan Bates for ‘terse’ refusal to meet

Ex-postal affairs minister admits to inquiry that response was ‘poorly judged’ and says sorry to people who had lives ruined

The Guardian - UK

Ed Davey and former Lib Dem leaders face grilling at Horizon inquiry

Davey, Jo Swinson and Vince Cable all held coalition posts at the time of the Post Office scandal, but Tory ex-ministers will be subject to hardest questions

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Post Office chair expresses ‘sincere regret’ over Horizon scandal

Tim Parker tells inquiry the firm relied too heavily on lawyers and should have shown key report to the board

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak in live TV grilling over claims Tory candidates bet on election date

Rishi Sunak backed the “full force of the law” being thrown against any Tory figures if they were found to have illegally bet on the election day as the row threatened to inflict another blow on his struggling campaign.

The Guardian - UK

Ein Wort für a fear of mentioning the war

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The Independent UK

A campaigner who took on the UK Post Office joins Tracey Emin, Imelda Staunton on royal honors list

A former post office branch manager who campaigned to expose a vast miscarriage of justice has been given a knighthood by King Charles III

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