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The row over the Post Office scandal and the hundreds of victims who are yet to be fully compensated has dominated headlines over recent days.

Alan Bates has criticised the “madness” of the Post Office scandal compensation scheme, revealing that he has been left waiting for more than two months after submitting a claim.

After Mr Bates vs The Post Office came the Business Committee vs The Post Office, and MPs packed the room to see how well the real-life witnesses played themselves. How many MPs? Twelve. Thirty-two. Four thousand and six. Forgive the confusion but the computer I’m writing on was made by Fujitsu.

In September 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov chose not to believe what his computer was telling him, and probably saved the world. The system had assured him that the very convincing blips on the Soviet early warning radar scopes were five incoming ICBM missiles, launched from the United States as a first strike.

The row over the Post Office scandal and the hundreds of victims who are yet to be fully compensated has dominated headlines over recent days.