Will Dixon

Leader and Obituary Writer at The Times
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[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

BREAKING: JOHN HEALEY APPOINTED CHANCELLOR

[The Press Awards @PressAwardsuk]

Congratulations to The Times for being awarded winner of Daily Newspaper of the Year at the Press Awards 2026 @thetimes

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The Environment Agency has masked the extent of noncompliant dumps

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Zack Polanski was far too slow to admit to his unpaid council tax

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Ryanair is wrong — don’t ban the airport dawn pint

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Pluto’s demotion in the celestial pecking order could be reversed

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[Owen Winter @OwenWntr]

Zack Polanski likes an average of 65 posts per day on Bluesky (every day since last April!). I dug into the online habits of Britain's first digital native party leader

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Armin ‘Sweety’ Loetscher obituary: owner of St Moritz club - The Times https://t.co/BJ0roPGi1R

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

Raunchy new details on Zack Polanski’s student acting career.

He won admiration from his peers for an explicit role in “Shopping and F***ing” - a production which was praised for its “shock value of… full-frontal homoerotic sex”.

New in @timesdiary

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One potential counter is that there can be really important to preserve areas of biodiversity, the govt could seek a middle ground by imposing a levy, or applying a simplified small sites metric

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New reforms to smaller sites will cut 43% of very expensive biodiversity net gain applications, whilst only impacting 1% of sites. A good example of red tape well cut. https://t.co/E5p2Zb2xGr

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I spoke to some of India's top pollsters and asked why the industry has struggled with accuracy (see chart). https://t.co/RAmYvYCrkP

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[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Wow.

This looks like an amazing project.

Scholars at UMichigan have recently collected a massive dataset of over 1.1M podcast transcripts that is largely comprehensive of all English language podcasts.

Using this data, they conduct an investigation into the content, structure, and responsiveness of the podcast ecosystem.

Check it out!

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You know its major when the Chief Executives of all the big wildlife charities assemble in a wood near London like The Avengers and tell the News at 6 that exemptions to BNG rules for tiny sites are "heartbreaking".

[George McGowan @GjMcGowan]

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[Calgie @christiancalgie]

Happy 'bury bad news' day

[YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance]

NEW: Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has just announced the BIGGEST EVER reforms to national policy to deliver more homes! Here are the five biggest: 🧵

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

The Leo project was about equality of information. Students asked to take on £50k of debt to “invest” in a degree deserve max info on earnings potential of a) that exact degree and a) and b) alternatives.

The data was built, at great expense. But it’s not shared. Why? #FreeLeo