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British hits differently

> Modernising complex legacy systems is a fraught business, but writing off £31 million in a year for getting it wrong, whilst continually funnelling tens of millions to the software provider that helped co-deliver a colossal miscarriage of justice is, arguably, a poor look for all concerned.

What do you mean?
The construction of British sentences is amusingly sublime from an American perspective.
I somehow missed the “UK” part before “post office” and thought at first they’d burned 31M lbs of mail.
All the people who took bonuses while fraudulently prosecuting people ought to be shaken upside-down until the entire bonus has been dislodged from their wallets.

My father was a subpostmaster decades ago and I am gobsmacked at how a public service has been turned into a piggy bank for a rotating cast of licenced bandits.