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
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Jim Dixon
@jimdixonwriter.bsky.social
· Nov 14
My book, Scattering Plenty is published by The History Press. The story of how farming and the countryside changed throughout the 20th Century and the people who made it happen. Order it here bit.ly/42ielg5
The worries and benefits of Storm Claudia, greening flood defences in the Trent Valley, a tale of two cities and their parks and gardens and a fabulous opportunity to support nature in Derbyshire. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online & in yesterday’s paper.
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The worries and benefits of Storm Claudia, greening flood defences in the Trent Valley, a tale of two cities and their parks and gardens and a fabulous opportunity to support nature in Derbyshire. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online & in yesterday’s paper.
The worries and benefits of Storm Claudia, greening flood defences in the Trent Valley, a tale of two cities and their parks and gardens and a fabulous opportunity to support nature in Derbyshire. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online & in today’s paper.
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The worries and benefits of Storm Claudia, greening flood defences in the Trent Valley, a tale of two cities and their parks and gardens and a fabulous opportunity to support nature in Derbyshire. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online & in today’s paper.
The worries and benefits of Storm Claudia, greening flood defences in the Trent Valley, a tale of two cities and their parks and gardens and a fabulous opportunity to support nature in Derbyshire. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online & in today’s paper.
November 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The worries and benefits of Storm Claudia, greening flood defences in the Trent Valley, a tale of two cities and their parks and gardens and a fabulous opportunity to support nature in Derbyshire. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online & in today’s paper.
The worries and benefits of Storm Claudia, greening flood defences in the Trent Valley, a tale of two cities and their parks and gardens and a fabulous opportunity to support nature in Derbyshire. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online & in today’s paper.
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The worries and benefits of Storm Claudia, greening flood defences in the Trent Valley, a tale of two cities and their parks and gardens and a fabulous opportunity to support nature in Derbyshire. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online & in today’s paper.
The worries and benefits of Storm Claudia, greening flood defences in the Trent Valley, a tale of two cities and their parks and gardens and a fabulous opportunity to support nature in Derbyshire. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online shortly & in tomorrow’s paper.
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The worries and benefits of Storm Claudia, greening flood defences in the Trent Valley, a tale of two cities and their parks and gardens and a fabulous opportunity to support nature in Derbyshire. My @thetimes.com Nature Notebook online shortly & in tomorrow’s paper.
Tinder really is crap
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Tinder really is crap
Wonderful to attend the @nationaltrust.org.uk AGM in Swindon today. A membership that is engaged, leaders showing commitment to the fundamentals of the Trust and it's new strategy. Brilliant to hear from so many young supporters, Trustees and senior staff. Good support from partners too!
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Wonderful to attend the @nationaltrust.org.uk AGM in Swindon today. A membership that is engaged, leaders showing commitment to the fundamentals of the Trust and it's new strategy. Brilliant to hear from so many young supporters, Trustees and senior staff. Good support from partners too!
My goodness, Facebook really is a cess pit of people expressing far right views, excusing violence against the police, threatening serving politicians & taking aggressive stances against reasoned political views. Are these real people or are they bots? It’s why I left X, the torrent of ugliness.
November 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My goodness, Facebook really is a cess pit of people expressing far right views, excusing violence against the police, threatening serving politicians & taking aggressive stances against reasoned political views. Are these real people or are they bots? It’s why I left X, the torrent of ugliness.
I’m absolutely certain none of my brothers are paedophiles. But if I suspected they were, I’d be straight on to the police. Stripping them of honorary titles & helping them move house would be pretty low on my list of actions. It’s time Royals treated this problem with the seriousness it deserves.
October 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I’m absolutely certain none of my brothers are paedophiles. But if I suspected they were, I’d be straight on to the police. Stripping them of honorary titles & helping them move house would be pretty low on my list of actions. It’s time Royals treated this problem with the seriousness it deserves.
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Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
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.
October 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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.
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
October 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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
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.
October 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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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October 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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This is beautiful @zackpolanski.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This is beautiful @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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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...
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
October 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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...
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...
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.
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.
October 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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.
4 spoonbills heading north up the Derwent at Cromford at about 4.30 today. @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
4 spoonbills heading north up the Derwent at Cromford at about 4.30 today. @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social
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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...
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
October 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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...
Would call the big landowners’ bluff
news.sky.com/story/damage...
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.
October 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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.
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.
October 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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.
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.
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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.
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.
October 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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.
On World Bookshop say, why not make a special visit to your local second-hand or antiquarian bookshop. At Countryside Boojs we are open at Cromford Mills all day. Lots of parking, cafes and other artisan and independent shops. DE4 3RQ. I
October 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
On World Bookshop say, why not make a special visit to your local second-hand or antiquarian bookshop. At Countryside Boojs we are open at Cromford Mills all day. Lots of parking, cafes and other artisan and independent shops. DE4 3RQ. I
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.
October 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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.