Jim Dixon
@jimdixonwriter.bsky.social
Write for The Times, my book is Scattering Plenty, work with brilliant conservation charities & I sell books. Progressive liberal, never very impressed by political right. Represented by Northbank. Leisure time by rivers and immersed in culture and nature
So many tragic stories of family jewels, treasured by people fleeing Nazis, persecution by Stalin or families divided by partition in S Asia.The tales of people who arrived on these shores, fled persecution & built modern Britain.What moral emptiness think the state should steal family treasures?
November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So many tragic stories of family jewels, treasured by people fleeing Nazis, persecution by Stalin or families divided by partition in S Asia.The tales of people who arrived on these shores, fled persecution & built modern Britain.What moral emptiness think the state should steal family treasures?
EBacc was a badly-thought through gimmick, a pale shadow of a real Bacchalaureate and inadequately grounded in the real curriculum. Time it was ditched.
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
EBacc was a badly-thought through gimmick, a pale shadow of a real Bacchalaureate and inadequately grounded in the real curriculum. Time it was ditched.
Communist Party of China, hold my beer.
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Communist Party of China, hold my beer.
US tech companies & their useful idiots like Lomborg will crash & burn as China & the global south overtake both their technologies & economies with their low carbon electric & knowledge economy. Trump, Musk and Gates will be the captains on their sinking ship. UK & EU need to decide who to follow.
November 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
US tech companies & their useful idiots like Lomborg will crash & burn as China & the global south overtake both their technologies & economies with their low carbon electric & knowledge economy. Trump, Musk and Gates will be the captains on their sinking ship. UK & EU need to decide who to follow.
This is all true. For 10 years I ran a frontline Defra public body, we had 50% cuts in 5 years. Easy cuts were made, all else was hard & had real world impacts. I chaired an NHS Trust Finance Committee, we could save a 1% or so a year, faced with 3-4% cuts. Austerity was a 1 off and it’s been done.
October 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is all true. For 10 years I ran a frontline Defra public body, we had 50% cuts in 5 years. Easy cuts were made, all else was hard & had real world impacts. I chaired an NHS Trust Finance Committee, we could save a 1% or so a year, faced with 3-4% cuts. Austerity was a 1 off and it’s been done.
Vile people including the laughable but sinister Legatum Institute, currently spear-heading the attack on the National Trust, with Farage, Rees-Mogg et al all on these thug’s payroll. People who genuinely hate the Britain most of us love!
October 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Vile people including the laughable but sinister Legatum Institute, currently spear-heading the attack on the National Trust, with Farage, Rees-Mogg et al all on these thug’s payroll. People who genuinely hate the Britain most of us love!
They don’t understand the terrible shame this man has inflicted on the Royal family, the monarchy and the community of Britain. His weaknesses, arrogance and entitlement are so damaging to his family and the monarchy. Sooner he departs public life the better.
October 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
They don’t understand the terrible shame this man has inflicted on the Royal family, the monarchy and the community of Britain. His weaknesses, arrogance and entitlement are so damaging to his family and the monarchy. Sooner he departs public life the better.
‘Prince’ Andrew is giving up nothing much. He is still a Prince, an embarrassment and a stain on Britain.
October 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
‘Prince’ Andrew is giving up nothing much. He is still a Prince, an embarrassment and a stain on Britain.
Yes, his continued presence as a Prince and someone tied up with Royalty damages the institution. He should be completely shunned.
October 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Yes, his continued presence as a Prince and someone tied up with Royalty damages the institution. He should be completely shunned.
‘Prince’ Andrew’s statement. Half-hearted and half-cocked. The man needs to withdraw completely from anything Royal, this is another fudge.
October 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
‘Prince’ Andrew’s statement. Half-hearted and half-cocked. The man needs to withdraw completely from anything Royal, this is another fudge.
The Royal Family are playing this so badly. Andrew should have been stripped of all his titles, baubles & gongs years ago. He should live a private life with no involvement in Roysl shows. That they have closed ranks & continue to tolerate & offer him titlesof respect shows how broken Royalty is.
October 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The Royal Family are playing this so badly. Andrew should have been stripped of all his titles, baubles & gongs years ago. He should live a private life with no involvement in Roysl shows. That they have closed ranks & continue to tolerate & offer him titlesof respect shows how broken Royalty is.
Stunningly beautiful, so love the West Coast, especially this time of year as the geese arrive!
October 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Stunningly beautiful, so love the West Coast, especially this time of year as the geese arrive!
Really this is the least he should do. All the baubles and titles he has collected in a life of privilege cheapen and diminish honorifics that are designed to honour people of distinction and service, not someone who craves wealth, has dubious friendships & can’t be trusted in the company of minors.
October 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Really this is the least he should do. All the baubles and titles he has collected in a life of privilege cheapen and diminish honorifics that are designed to honour people of distinction and service, not someone who craves wealth, has dubious friendships & can’t be trusted in the company of minors.