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davidhencke.bsky.social
Freelance investigative lobby journalist writing for Byline Times. Previously a lobby journalist on the Guardian. Follow my blog davidhencke.com covering whistleblowing, pension campaigns, employment tribunals and injustice in the NHS and everywhere else.
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Time for mediation on 50s women pension compensation davidhencke.com/2025/02/25/t...

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Time for mediation on 50s women pension compensation davidhencke.com/2025/02/25/t...

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At a screening this evening for @asifkapadia.bsky.social's powerful film '2073', the visionary journalist of our time @carolecadwalla.bsky.social told @peterjukes.bsky.social that we will remember being here on the day America sided with Putin. "Musk's promise is to make the future great again"

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Exclusive: Infected Blood Compensation Authority plans to gag lawyers to stop public criticism of its pay out to victims davidhencke.com/2025/02/13/e...

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My latest story for @bylinetimes.bsky.social HMRC has broken promises to stop a British man from being bombarded by VAT tax demands for 11,000 Chinese firms falsely using his home address, MPs report reveals

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An increasingly complex tax system is burdening government and business with billions in admin costs New @nao.org.uk report on the administrative cost of tax system: cost to HMRC of collecting tax grew by 15% (£563mn) over last 5 years Report 👇 explains reasons why www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-...

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Innovate or die. My interpretation of the head of the national audit office speech to MPs and Whitehall davidhencke.com/2025/02/05/c...

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Dumped:The 50swomen who will get nothing after a botched and divisive WASPI campaign davidhencke.com/2025/02/03/d...

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Auditors slam business department for failing to provide Parliament accurate figures for post office victims compensation davidhencke.com/2025/01/31/m...

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My latest story for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on the vulnerability of government computer systems to attack and ransomware because of previous neglect

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My latest story for @bylinetimes.bsky.social reveals the huge scale of crumbling military bases, schools and hospitals left by the Tories which require £49 billion to put right

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My blog in 2024 - 358,000 hits and more investigations to come davidhencke.com/2025/01/16/m...

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My latest story for @bylinetimes.bsky.social reveals the huge scale of crumbling military bases, schools and hospitals left by the Tories which require £49 billion to put right

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My blog in 2024 - 358,000 hits and more investigations to come davidhencke.com/2025/01/16/m...

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My latest story for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on the parlous state of special educational needs provision revealed in a scathing report from the Commons Public Accounts committee

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Tortoise and the Heir: The 'Slow News' Media Firm Behind the Observer Sale and the Curious Company It Keeps – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/12/18/t...

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Tragic death of an talented ITV news editor and an inquest that fell short of providing answers davidhencke.com/2024/12/09/t...

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Tory Plans for 20,000 new prison places have produced just a 1000 extra places and left the Labour government with a prison crisis and a delay to complete the prison building programme to 2031, according to a report from the National Audit Office. My latest story from @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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My latest story for bylinetimes.skyb.social showing how theConservative local government auditing crisis developed from one council to the entire Whitehall financial system being compromised

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My latest story for @bylinetimes.bsky.social - powerful House of Lords report gives grim warning of two tier journalism - good coverage via elite paywalls but dubious and misleading stuff available free on social media. A danger of too much power for the tech giants bylinetimes.com/2024/11/25/e...

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The latest development in the long, long battle for #50swomen to get restitution for lost pensions strongly backed by a former Australian judge. Finally the all party MPs group has seen CEDAWinLAW davidhencke.com/2024/11/24/j...

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Been on bsky.social for just seven days and have gained some 7000 followers. Quite amazing. Will be posting more links to my latest blogs and stories on it in the coming weeks

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My latest blog on an influential but little known NHS figure who is the scourge of whistleblowers and who faced a savage cross examination at the Thirlwall inquiry last week into her role in a review of the Lucy Letby case davidhencke.com/2024/11/20/h...

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My latest blog on an influential but little known NHS figure who is the scourge of whistleblowers and who faced a savage cross examination at the Thirlwall inquiry last week into her role in a review of the Lucy Letby case davidhencke.com/2024/11/20/h...

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Only been on bluesky.social for 5 days and my followers are now over 5900 while my X account keeps dwindling!

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Have been on bsky.social for just over 48 hours and seen my new followers jump to 3,400 while my X account has lost nearly 200 more followers. It does look like an eXedus is gathering pace.

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My report on @bylinetimes.bsky.social earlier this week on the sad fact that premature heart attacks are on the rise again after being halved at one stage due to bad decisions on health checks by the last Conservative government bylinetimes.com/2024/11/13/h...

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Lost 200 followers on X in last two weeks but have gained over 400 on Bsky.social in just one evening Change is coming

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Very thoughtful piece that should make centre left people think about what is happening with populism and how it must be tackled

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