John Henderson
@jphendo.bsky.social
Retired after more than 45 years in journalism on local and regional papers and national magazines. Motoring writer for 25 years. Last paper Bury Free Press. Dog lover, interested in wildlife, intolerant of intolerance. UK.
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Reminder that, setting aside its horrible, possession of this sort of thing is a strict liability offense in the UK, where it appearing on your screen counts as possession
You definitely don’t have to be spreading child pornography to make a point about Epstein!
February 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Reminder that, setting aside its horrible, possession of this sort of thing is a strict liability offense in the UK, where it appearing on your screen counts as possession
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Matt Weston: Skeleton pilot wins emphatic Olympic gold for first medal GB medal of games
Matt Weston: Skeleton pilot wins emphatic Olympic gold for first medal GB medal of games
Matt Weston cements his status as the best skeleton racer in the world as he makes history by winning Olympic gold in emphatic fashion in Cortina, securing Team GB’s first medal of the 2026 Winter Games.
www.bbc.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Matt Weston: Skeleton pilot wins emphatic Olympic gold for first medal GB medal of games
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just billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe throwing out some serious made-up numbers on TV
February 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
just billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe throwing out some serious made-up numbers on TV
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Rate bit of good news here for Labour.
February 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Rate bit of good news here for Labour.
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Hey everyone, this recall has been expanded. If you formula feed, please check your supply.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 7, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Hey everyone, this recall has been expanded. If you formula feed, please check your supply.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A petition has been started by assisted dying campaigner Sophie Blake - who has incurable secondary breast cancer - to stop the Lords from frustrating bills approved by MPs.
Peers are currently debating the assisted dying bill at a snail’s pace.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Peers are currently debating the assisted dying bill at a snail’s pace.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Petition: Act to ensure Bills backed by MPs & public can complete all stages in Parliament
We want the Government to do everything in its power to ensure that when bills are supported by MPs & the public, they have the time to complete all their stages in Parliament. We believe this is impo...
petition.parliament.uk
February 6, 2026 at 1:42 PM
A petition has been started by assisted dying campaigner Sophie Blake - who has incurable secondary breast cancer - to stop the Lords from frustrating bills approved by MPs.
Peers are currently debating the assisted dying bill at a snail’s pace.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Peers are currently debating the assisted dying bill at a snail’s pace.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
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Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them
February 1, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them
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Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
February 1, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
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After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM
After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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Moderna have announced that they won't run new phase three trials now with massive impacts for new vaccine development- why- its because of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine campaigns and cancelling mRNA vaccine research which affect the sales the company can then make 🧪🧵 #PublicHealth
Moderna Won’t Run Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US: Bloomberg
Growing opposition to vaccines in the U.S., driven by recent government policy changes, makes it difficult to see a return on investment in vaccine development, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said this w...
www.biospace.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Moderna have announced that they won't run new phase three trials now with massive impacts for new vaccine development- why- its because of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine campaigns and cancelling mRNA vaccine research which affect the sales the company can then make 🧪🧵 #PublicHealth
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#StormChandra has been named and is forecast to bring strong winds and heavy rain to the UK on Tuesday ⚠️
Flooding and travel disruption is likely in places and there will also be some significant snow across higher ground in some northern areas ❄️
Flooding and travel disruption is likely in places and there will also be some significant snow across higher ground in some northern areas ❄️
January 26, 2026 at 10:28 AM
#StormChandra has been named and is forecast to bring strong winds and heavy rain to the UK on Tuesday ⚠️
Flooding and travel disruption is likely in places and there will also be some significant snow across higher ground in some northern areas ❄️
Flooding and travel disruption is likely in places and there will also be some significant snow across higher ground in some northern areas ❄️
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Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
Has anyone else doing #BigGardenBirdWatch noticed a shortage of blackbirds this year?
Didn't see a single one yet usually numbers here are boosted in winter by migrants from northern Europe. My wife and I can't remember the last time we saw one.
Didn't see a single one yet usually numbers here are boosted in winter by migrants from northern Europe. My wife and I can't remember the last time we saw one.
January 24, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Has anyone else doing #BigGardenBirdWatch noticed a shortage of blackbirds this year?
Didn't see a single one yet usually numbers here are boosted in winter by migrants from northern Europe. My wife and I can't remember the last time we saw one.
Didn't see a single one yet usually numbers here are boosted in winter by migrants from northern Europe. My wife and I can't remember the last time we saw one.
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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My brother fought in the infantry and lost soldiers in Afghanistan. The press used to report deaths before families had been told and I would check my phone over and over, scared it would ring.
I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.
I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 1:29 PM
My brother fought in the infantry and lost soldiers in Afghanistan. The press used to report deaths before families had been told and I would check my phone over and over, scared it would ring.
I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.
I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.
Anyone else getting this? My Samsung tablet keeps wanting to put the BBC News app into deep sleep because it claims it's frequently crashing yet I've not had problems with it.
January 22, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Anyone else getting this? My Samsung tablet keeps wanting to put the BBC News app into deep sleep because it claims it's frequently crashing yet I've not had problems with it.
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This makes no sense…
An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto…
No thanks
If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote
Sign the petition & help make that law.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto…
No thanks
If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote
Sign the petition & help make that law.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
petition.parliament.uk
January 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
This makes no sense…
An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto…
No thanks
If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote
Sign the petition & help make that law.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto…
No thanks
If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote
Sign the petition & help make that law.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"
January 17, 2026 at 3:28 PM
One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"
Dog walk surprise this morning. Saw an otter cross the track in front of us, go into a small ditch then via a culvert into a drainage dyke, which it thoroughly explored. Think it found a freshwater mussel. Never seen one in 33yrs living of in the Suffolk Fens. @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #animals
January 18, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Dog walk surprise this morning. Saw an otter cross the track in front of us, go into a small ditch then via a culvert into a drainage dyke, which it thoroughly explored. Think it found a freshwater mussel. Never seen one in 33yrs living of in the Suffolk Fens. @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social #animals
Badenoch doesn't seem to care how stupid the things she says are as long as it opposes whatever Labour wants to do. Stopping kids seeing porn doesn't stop perverted adults creating, distributing distributing and viewing child porn.
January 12, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Badenoch doesn't seem to care how stupid the things she says are as long as it opposes whatever Labour wants to do. Stopping kids seeing porn doesn't stop perverted adults creating, distributing distributing and viewing child porn.
We want a bookcase but want to see the quality and check measurements so I Googled local furniture outlets and found it includes online stores as "local". It even included one whose website claims it's a "furniture outlet" in Ely but is 203mi away in Bolton.
January 12, 2026 at 6:43 PM
We want a bookcase but want to see the quality and check measurements so I Googled local furniture outlets and found it includes online stores as "local". It even included one whose website claims it's a "furniture outlet" in Ely but is 203mi away in Bolton.