Michael Henderson

Absolute bombshell. An activist exposes the UK legal system's terrifying descent into authoritarianism to protect Israeli arms factories. The judge literally banned defendants from mentioning genocide and secretly reserved the right to sentence them as terrorists.

I don’t mind my data being used my for research to help the NHS etc, however, because the government have now allowed Palantir access, I have withdrawn my consent using this link: your-data-matters.service.nhs.uk

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

PAY ATTENTION. Your digital life was just sold to a billionaire. Tony Blair brokered the deal. The King announced it. You had no say. For 20 years Blair tried to force Digital ID. Failed in 2006 when his £4.6BN Identity Cards Act was scrapped. He learned. You can't force people. You make them walk into the trap optionally. In 2025, 2.96 MILLION petitioned against it. Government pretended to listen. Made it optional. But the trap was always the same. Once banks integrate it, employers require it, schools demand it. Optional becomes mandatory in practice. You won't function without it. Why? Larry Ellison paid the Tony Blair Institute £257 MILLION. Oracle already holds £700M in government contracts across Treasury, Home Office, NHS. They're not building a service. They're owning your life. In February, Blair and Ellison met in Dubai. Ellison called for unification of all government data for AI. Not to help you. To predict you. Control you. Monitor every transaction, every movement, every choice. TBI released the report in September. Starmer moved days later. King made it official. Once Digital ID embeds in NHS and tax system, no government can remove it without economic collapse. It becomes permanent. Survives every election. Every Prime Minister. Blair learned in 2006 that forced control gets rejected. So this time he's embedding it so deep rejection becomes impossible. This is institutional entrapment. You're getting a digital leash designed to predict and control your behaviour through AI. Wake up before optional becomes permanent.

When Allyson Felix became pregnant, Nike threatened to cut her sponsorship contract by almost 70% because of her pregnancy. They told her: “You should know your place… and just run.” Amid all this, at seven months pregnant, Allyson had to undergo an emergency C-section due to a serious complication. Her baby girl spent over a month in the neonatal intensive care unit. But two years later, Allyson qualified for her fifth Olympic Games, with her daughter in the stands cheering her on. Allyson left Nike. And she founded her own shoe brand: Saysh One. At the Tokyo Olympics, she ran wearing her own sneakers, carrying the motto: “I know exactly where my place is.” With 11 medals, she surpassed Carl Lewis and became the most decorated American track and field athlete in history. And to all women, she gave this message: “I raised my voice and built this company for you, so that you’ll never have to train at 4:30 in the morning, five months pregnant, just to hide it from your sponsor.” ❤️

welcome to the uk btw

What if the biggest “win” for families in the last 50 years was actually a trap? Rory Sutherland dropped this on Alex O’Connor’s podcast: The two-income household started as a nice option. Both partners work, more money comes in. Feels great at first. Then reality shifted. Governments got double the tax. Existing homeowners watched their property values soar. House prices rose to match two salaries. Suddenly one income wasn’t enough anymore — even for high-earning singles like consultant surgeons. Families traded ~35 hours of free time per week for only modest gains in lifestyle. What began as freedom quietly became an obligation. And it left single people and parents who want to raise their own kids at a real disadvantage. This one stings because we sold it as pure progress. Personally, it makes me question how many modern “upgrades” we’ve normalized without counting the real cost — especially lost time with family. What’s something you once thought was clear progress that now feels like it came with a heavier price than we admitted?

Reuters spent months trying to unmask Banksy. A Greek builder got caught in the crossfire. Banksy then installed a full bronze statue in the most surveilled postcode in London overnight. The builder showed up at the plinth the same morning.

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not. Tough one. Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

"a man has ruined a weekend away with his girlfriend" 😆😆

She laced her shoes just like any other morning runner. No uniform. No badge. No sirens humming in the distance. Just a woman in plain clothes, hair tied back, stepping onto familiar streets where so many women had learned to keep their keys between their fingers and their eyes fixed straight ahead. The sun was gentle, the air quiet, and for a moment it felt almost peaceful. She began to jog, heart steady, breath even, blending into the rhythm of the neighborhood the way countless women do every day—hoping, not expecting, to be left alone. It didn’t take long. A horn blared. A voice shouted something sharp and unwanted. Footsteps followed too closely, lingering where they didn’t belong. The ordinary fear crept in fast—the kind women recognize instantly, the kind that tightens the chest and shortens the breath. Only this time, she kept running. Not because it didn’t hurt, and not because it didn’t anger her, but because somewhere nearby, unseen, others were watching. Every comment, every act of intimidation was noted. Every moment that so many women are told to ignore was finally being taken seriously. This was the quiet heart of the “Jog On” operation in Surrey: women protecting women by walking straight into the truth. For a month, volunteer female officers ran these routes, not to provoke, not to trap—but to show just how constant the harassment really is. Sometimes it happened more than once in a single minute. Sometimes it came from people who laughed, certain there would be no consequences. And yet, by the end of the month, there were arrests. Real ones. For harassment. For assault. For theft. Proof that what women experience daily isn’t “nothing.” It’s harm, and it matters. The operation began because nearly half of women who face street harassment never report it. Not because it’s rare—but because it’s exhausting. Because explaining it means reliving it. Because too often, nothing changes. But change started here, on ordinary streets, with ordinary-looking runners who carried something extraordinary: the power to say, “We see this now.” The message from Surrey Police was simple and quietly powerful. You cannot tell who a woman is just by looking at her. You cannot know her strength, her story, or who stands with her. That runner you honk at, shout at, or follow might be alone—or she might be backed by an entire system ready to protect her. And maybe, just maybe, the next time you think about crossing a line, you’ll pause. Because the world is changing in small, brave steps. One jog at a time.

Did you know that, in 1991, Timmy Mallett, of Wacaday and "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" fame, tried explaining apartheid to children? The real plot twist is... he did a pretty great job of it. An exceptional job, in fact. They should have shown this in schools.

Man’s girlfriend is very annoyed that the free press she champions, despite having emigrated to a dictatorship without one, is investigating her boyfriend for stuff she says people who aren’t her boyfriend, like Angela Rayner, should resign over.

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

🚨 BREAKING: Zarah Sultana uses parliamentary privilege to bypass court reporting restrictions and expose details of the Filton 24 re-trial. UK media has been banned from reporting key information. Zarah Sultana: “If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that.” An MP going into Parliament to reveal what the press legally can’t report is rare - and explosive. This raises serious questions about transparency, justice, and what juries are - and aren’t - being told.

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The fact that the White House overtly backed a pro-Moscow, pro-Russia, pro-Putin leader of an EU, Nato member state is terrifying. The fact that Orbán is now gone is one mildly shining light in a terrifying state of International affairs. Congratualtions Hungary!

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

Today I broke a story [with help from @linfitlass] about Reform UK potentially fixing their competition to provide energy bills to a whole street. It's a big deal and should, by rights, be picked up by mainstream media. Luckily, there's one proper, reliable news outlet that have and are publishing my full article on Monday. Obvs its Byline Times. But … why have the BBC, Sky News etc. missed this? I'm not blowing my own trumpet at all, but so far, the story has had over 1.5 million views on my 𝕏 feed today. A genuine public interest story about a potential fraudulent attempt by a political party, but it's being ignored, as always ... because it's Farage. This is serious. Aside from Byline Times, The Nerve and the New World, the rest have capitulated to the far-right and Bannon's play. If any outlets want to discuss this story, you know where I am. x.com/donmcgowan/sta…

No billionaire is going to move from Hong Kong to UK in order to donate to Farage. The most likely reason is that the Chinese authorities are investigating convicted criminal Delo. China has the death penalty for large financial crime.