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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 1d

I have devoted my life to protecting Britain’s landscape, to charities & public bodies, I champion people who love Britain & its countryside.I support communities, have set up enterprises & represented UK overseas periodically. I can take or leave flags, I don’t need them to show my patriotism.

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 2d

I think the test for migrants should be do they value families, care for the elderly, raise successful children, work in the caring professions, set up new businesses, lead charities, expand and develop culture and populate world class learning and teaching institutions. You know, like migrants do

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 4d

I think the test for migrants should be do they value families, care for the elderly, raise successful children, work in the caring professions, set up new businesses, lead charities, expand and develop culture and populate world class learning and teaching institutions. You know, like migrants do.

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 4d

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!

Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 6d

A lovely pair of parrots for #FungiFriday 🦜🦜
Gliophorus psittacina
#FungiFriends

At this time of year there are fungal treasures to be found! Stumbling upon a Parrot Waxcap certainly feels like finding treasure, glossy, green and gorgeous, they are a joy to behold!

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 7d

This is beautiful @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

British.

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 6d

‘Prince’ Andrew is giving up nothing much. He is still a Prince, an embarrassment and a stain on Britain.

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, his continued presence as a Prince and someone tied up with Royalty damages the institution. He should be completely shunned.

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 6d

‘Prince’ Andrew’s statement. Half-hearted and half-cocked. The man needs to withdraw completely from anything Royal, this is another fudge.

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Stunningly beautiful, so love the West Coast, especially this time of year as the geese arrive!

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 6d

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.

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Skye @skyebalou.bsky.social · 6d

Yet again Trump and his administration prove they are total morons and bastards.
I don’t wish climate related disasters on anyone, obviously, but no doubt his supporters will still love him when their homes are destroyed and their food scarcity & prices rocket.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Landmark global shipping deal abandoned under US threats

President Trump intervened in the talks calling the deal a

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely love this, one of my favourite flowers. Ours were flowering in November last year. They are so early that their petals open before the foliage. I wrote about these in my @thetimes.com Nature Notebook on Saturday last week.

Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 6d

Stanley Spencer, Winter Aconites, 1957. Oil on canvas. Painted in the Cookham Vicarage garden on commission for the Rev. Canon R.M.L. Westropp as a present for his wife, Rachel. Sold at auction in 2013 for £51,650.

A close view looking down into green foliage and yellow winter aconites emerging from ground covered in tumbled dry brown leaves.

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 10d

4 spoonbills heading north up the Derwent at Cromford at about 4.30 today. @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 11d

This’d be a canny move: raise the threshold at which inheritance tax applies to farmland from £1m to £5m (£10m for couples), ensuring it applies only to huge estates - but then remove the proposed discount (so IHT at 40%, not 20%)

Would call the big landowners’ bluff

news.sky.com/story/damage...

Farming community responds to rumours of an inheritance tax U-turn

Plans to introduce a 20% tax on estates worth more than £1m drew tens of thousands to protest in London earlier this year.

news.sky.com

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 11d

They are as overseas as Guildford or Devon. These same idiots on the Telegraph would be the first to moan if the Government threatened to hand the Falklands back to Argentina. Idiotic to question conservation spending on the Overseas Territories

Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 11d

The brilliant work restoring the ‘land of lost content’ in the Shropshire Hills being led by two inspiring young farmers, the lively fishing parties of Sandwich terns on Strangford Lough and planting spring bulbs. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online now and in Saturday’s paper.

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 12d

Far right…

Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 12d

Orchestrated campaign by the bike right of politics, Farage has jumped on a bandwagon, what a surprise🤣

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve spent most of the last week visiting @nationaltrust.org.uk properties, hearing from staff & volunteers, thinking hard about its future. The idea that fraudulent Farage has anything useful to say on the Trust & it's work is laughable. He’s a lightweight fraud, the Trust is the best of Britain.

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 12d

The brilliant work restoring the ‘land of lost content’ in the Shropshire Hills being led by two inspiring young farmers, the lively fishing parties of Sandwich terns on Strangford Lough and planting spring bulbs. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online now and in today’s paper.

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Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social · 13d

The brilliant work restoring the ‘land of lost content’ in the Shropshire Hills being led by two inspiring young farmers, the lively fishing parties of Sandwich terns on Strangford Lough and planting spring bulbs. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online now and in today’s paper.

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