Corrupt UK child support targets men: Glitches, or gaslighting? | HBR Talk 420

Honey Badger Radio · Oct 28, 2026 · 2h 10m · transcript

"You can't appeal because there's nothing to appeal. You're just screwed and you just have to pay."

Hannah Wallen, Mike Stevenson and Richard the Lionhearted go back into the Daily Mail's investigation of Britain's Child Maintenance Service, on the question of whether any of it is a glitch.

Also: the father whose nineteen thousand pounds the CMS took straight out of his bank account after a judge had already ordered it refunded, who had to abandon the building work on his house and left his family without a kitchen for eighteen months; the policy that when the CMS is found in the wrong it…