While peaceful protestors, many of them OAP’s or teachers, are being arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide, the real villains and lawbreakers are never even indicted.
Here is a short list of those who appear to have escaped justice, and of course most of them are the bosses, the political classes or just plain rich people with expensive lawyers. Is this any way to govern a country allegedly based on the rule of law? Is it “structural corruption”?
Post Office Horizon Scandal
The biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.
The Post Office and Fujitsu agreed a deal 19 years ago to fix transaction errors in sub-postmasters’ accounts caused by bugs in the Horizon IT system, a document has now revealed in 2025. The Post Office lied many times about this in court and put many innocent postmasters in jail.
Nobody has been arrested.
Windrush Scandal
Thousands of people were wrongly detained, denied legal rights and passports, and in at least 83 cases wrongly deported from the UK by the Home Office. In 2020 the Equality and Human Rights Commission said that the Home Office had broken the law. Theresa May and Amber Rudd (who did resign for misleading parliament) were mainly responsible for the “hostile environment” policy.
Nobody has been arrested.
Grenfell Tower Fire
The fire caused 72 deaths due mainly to combustible cladding. On 27 July 2017, police issued a public notice to residents saying that they had “reasonable grounds” to suspect that both the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation “may have committed” corporate manslaughter. Fire tests carried out as early as 2014 showed cladding used on Grenfell Tower failed to meet the safety standards originally claimed by its manufacturers, Arconic and Celotex-Saint-Gobain. Arconic spent £30 million on defending its role in the Grenfell fire disaster. One expert said “you wouldn’t put E (Arconic Reynobond PE cladding) on a dog kennel”.
Nobody has been arrested.
Hillsborough Disaster
The deadliest disaster in British sporting history.
Shortly before kick-off at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final, police match commander David Duckenfield ordered exit gate C to be opened. The resulting overcrowding led to a total of 97 fatalities and 766 injuries. The first coroners verdict in 1991 returned a verdict of accidental death, due to collusion and lying by South Yorkshire Police. The second coroner’s inquest in 2016 ruled that the supporters were unlawfully killed owing to grossly negligent failures by police. In June 2017, six people were charged with offences including manslaughter by gross negligence, misconduct in public office and perverting the course of justice for their actions, during and after the disaster. After 32 years, due to various legal niceties, no policemen were ever convicted.
Nobody was put in prison.
The Covid VIP Contracts
Probably the biggest misspending scandal in the UK of all time.
Failed pandemic-era personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts cost the British taxpayer £1.4 billion, as an interim report commissioned by the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves says in 2025. The Department for Health & Social Care said the figure was £4-9 billion! Most of this money will not be recovered.
The VIP lane applications were recommended or passed on by persons deemed to be important – often senior Conservative party politicians and were given special treatment. The most infamous was Michelle Mone, Baroness Mone, who recommended her husband’s company through the VIP lane, although initially denying any connection. This company, PPE Medpro, which is being sued for £145 million, has now entered administration. You do wonder where the money went, and how they can get away with it.
Some companies that had won contracts to supply PPE were later employed to dispose of it.
Nobody has been arrested.
Boris Johnson lies to the Queen
The supreme court stated his decision to prorogue parliament due to Brexit in 2019 was unlawful. They also stated the privy council’s decision to ask the Queen to suspend parliament was also “unlawful, void and of no effect and should be quashed”. The prime minister was abusing his powers. Of course I could have chosen several other examples regarding Boris!
Nobody has been arrested.
Mi5 lies deliberately in court
Mi5 lied “deliberately and repeatedly” as it tried to defend its handling of a neo-Nazi agent who abused women, the BBC has told a panel of High Court judges in 2025. There had been “copious levels of dishonesty” which had not been acknowledged in Mi5’s investigations into how it came to give false evidence.
Contempt of court is a legal term for behaviour that impedes the administration of justice or creates a risk of that happening, such as publishing information that prejudices a trial or giving false statements to court. It can be punished with a fine or up to two years in prison.
Nobody has been arrested.
GCHQ, Mi5 and Mi6 Mass Spying
Amnesty International brought the case against the agencies, together with other rights organisations, following the disclosures about mass surveillance made by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013.
The ruling by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in 2025 – a secretive legal body responsible for monitoring the shadowy world of the UK secret services – said that GCHQ’s access to (and use of) private communications swept up in bulk by the National Security Agency (NSA) breached human rights laws.
They have been spying on us and lying to us illegally for decades!
Nobody has been arrested.
Tony Blair’s Illegal War
Sir John Chilcot’s report, published in July 2016, found that the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein posed “no imminent threat” at the time of the invasion of his country in 2003, and the war was fought on the basis of “flawed” intelligence.
Michael Mansfield QC summarised the report’s findings as: “Saddam Hussein did not pose an urgent threat to the UK, intelligence reporting about [Iraqi] weapons of mass destruction was presented with unwarranted certainty, that the war was unnecessary and that the UK undermined the authority of the UN security council. ”He continued “Nothing could be more emphatic than these findings. It was an unlawful war.”
Nobody has been arrested.
