I mean genuine reality. To start there was the story of how the Post Office screwed about 700 sub-postmasters (and mistresses) for thousands of missing ££, causing many to go bankrupt and a few to commit suicide. This happened because their computer system which was claimed to be tamperproof could be fiddled from head office. No-one seemed willing to accept any explanation other than hundreds of small businesspeople were petty thieves. After about 15 years management were lying all they could to maintain the status quo. Still no-one having actual blame pinned on them, but at least there has been some compensation.
To follow we got the (almost full) story about Alexei Navalny, Putin's chief opponent. After he recovered from his attempted poisoning he got together with the chap from Bellingcat and they managed to trace the movements of several guys who had been on likely flights to Siberia, and filmed a phone sting where one of them admitted many of the details. We wonder what will happen to him now :-)) That was a great moment. Millions of watchers on social media, but not enough yet to depose Vlad, sadly.
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