‘Computer says no.” Remember? This was Little Britain, back in 2004. David Walliams is in drag as Carol, a bored bank worker behind a screen. Matt Lucas comes in, looking for a loan: £2,000? Carol taps at her keyboard. “Computer says no,” she says. Lucas suggests less. Carol types again. “Computer says no.” Lucas looks nonplussed. “Can I,” he asks, “have a word with the manager?” Tap, tap. “Computer says no.”
That was also the year, funnily enough, that the sub-postmaster Alan Bates first approached the magazine Computer Weekly suggesting they might wish to take a look at the various inhuman travesties the Post Office’s Horizon system, made by Fujitsu, was inflicting upon his peers.
Even 20 years on, it is hard to
