Colin Dixon
Colin Dixon
@cldx.bsky.social
Perpetually semi-retired software architect, living between UK and Greece. Economics, philosophy, long-distance bike rides. Real life is poetry, Greek language and Griffon Vultures.
James Mason is such a gorgeously good baddie. And that lovely Leo G Carroll...
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Thank you. I have them. I'm headed to the south coast tonight, where there is no light pollution. Good luck against Fulham.
October 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
In in Crete, and the skies are clear here at night right now. Can I see it? Where should I look? What's the best time?
October 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
That Arsenal guy's only memorable moment. Ruud, on the other hand ...
October 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Is it legal to display a sign stating that you support the supporters of Palest*n* Ac*ion? Asking for a friend of a friend.
October 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
October 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Can we make it clear that the money is to be returned not by her personally, but by PPE Medpro, whose assets amount to around 0.2% of the sum demanded.
October 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My old pear tree is dying, but manages to give us some of those pears each year, until this year. She grew three, but the cat knocked them all off. I've lived here 36 years, and can't bear to think of the garden without her.
September 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
That's bad. But there is good, too. I changed my train booking & didn't notice my unbagged bike couldn't be carried on that train. The Montparnasse controller told me 'no', then relented, packed my bike up against luggage and found me a nearby seat. Saved my vacation, ride up the West Coast, in May.
September 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I lived until recently in Greece. I always felt different - although I speak Greek - but never felt unwelcome, never felt threatened. Now I watch Greek friends leaving the UK to return home with their families, I realise how fortunate I was. And how much I love Greek people.
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
No prospect of me voting Labour again in my lifetime, then.
September 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Yep. Several of my smart Greek friends have returned, as the UK becomes ever more depressed and toxic. This is no longer the place they hoped they could bring up children.
September 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I see no bullet nick on his ear.... oh, wait a minute...
September 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Starmer's embrace of Reform messaging is clearly working. There was no need for radical Labour policies after all. Happy days coming!
September 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Coffee and a club sandwich, please.
August 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We are so bad because UK economic style is to focus on P&L and not the Balance Sheet. Everything is about short-term return and not long-term investment. That's why our productivity is so poor, our roads are full of holes, our transport system is failing, our water companies are major polluters...
August 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Pat Buchanan made that case in 'Churchill, Hitler & the Unnecessary War'. In terms of lives lost & the UK's standing, wealth and influence, it's probably accurate, if monstrous. That Brownshirt radicalism can today make the UK a major power is by far a more stupid and insidious argument.
August 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I'm a landlord, and a company director. I just signed up and donated. That's because I'm also a grandfather.
July 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM