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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 28/08/2026
All Points East (2026)
Dusty shoes after All Points East festival
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 23/08/2026
Lunz, at Peace. By my friend Emma Yeomans. At the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition
Lunz, at Peace. Mixed media, textiles, hand embroidery
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 10/08/2026
Today I walked the first leg of the London Outer Orbital Path (Loop), from Erith to Bexley
The Thames at ErithThree horses blocking my path A tree-covered path at BexleyAn overgrown cemetery at Bexley
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Playzholder🔞🏳️‍🌈(Commission Waitlist Open) @playzholder.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
RIP Kavinsky youtu.be/46qo_V1zcOM?...
youtu.be
Kavinsky - Nightcall (Official Audio - HD)
YouTube video by Record Makers
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 29/07/2026
The Northern Line is the loudest
thetimes.com
Which Tube line is loudest? We rank the noisiest Underground sections
The Central, Jubilee, Northern and Victoria lines receive the most noise complaints as Transport for London faces calls for a full investigation
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 08/07/2026
October 2025. Mark’s house.
A fortune cookie wrapper and the fortune that says: Look! Good fortune is around you.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 21/05/2026
When work follows you home
A Times advert at London Bridge station
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 16/03/2026
“Certain kinds of writing — bureaucratic, social-scientific, even journalistic — often seem to have been written by a robot, reaching for prepared phrases, recoiling from idiosyncrasy. Yet the sense of a human heart beating through plain words can penetrate a reader’s indifference as nothing else can.” John Whale, Put it in Writing (1984)
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 24/02/2026
thetimes.com
Why we do not allow comments on our stories about Andrew
Legal constraints, not deference, explain why comments are disabled on stories about the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 09/02/2026
Frances Ha (2012)
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 07/02/2026
“Sometimes you have close friends because they are close by and have compatible dogs.”
newyorker.com
The Trouble with Friends
The wonder and the curse of friendship is choice.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 27/01/2026
From The Sopranos, S6E3
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 11/11/2025
From @thetimes.com archive, 100 years ago today
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 31/10/2025
Put me on the next flight to Egypt
thetimes.com
After 23 years, Egypt’s treasures find a palatial new home
The Grand Egyptian Museum finally opens on Saturday, showcasing the complete Tutankhamun collection after decades of delays, uprisings and crises
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 17/07/2025
25 years on, Stephen King’s memoir is still the best guide for writers
thetimes.com
25 years on, Stephen King’s memoir is still the best guide for writers
Have a room of one’s own, ditch the adverbs and hammer out 1,000 words a day — they’re still good rules for any aspiring author
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 14/07/2025
Kanpai
A bottle of saké and two glasses
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 12/07/2025
TIL the collective noun for ladybirds is a loveliness
thetimes.com
How quickly we forget political superstars past
I wonder how many people know who the Earl of Birkenhead was, or perhaps is
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 11/07/2025
Good.
bbc.com
Ban on ticketless football fans set to become law
Fans who force their way into matches will also face a criminal record and a fine of up to £1,000.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 03/06/2025
I’m part of a team whose job is to keep The Times and The Sunday Times true to their principles. Check out this video from our new campaign:
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 15/03/2025
The Times paywall is down this weekend. Visit thetimes.com 📰
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 28/01/2025
Just finished reading the Times style guide from cover to cover … five stars
The Times and The Sunday Times Style Guide on a bookshelf
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 18/12/2024
It’s true what they’re saying. Conclave is a great film
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 23/11/2024
This is a must-read
thetimes.com
This is my last Spinal Column. Writing it helped me survive
Melanie Reid wrote her first Spinal Column in 2010, just days after breaking her neck and back in a riding accident. She thought she might have enough material for a month. Almost 15 years and many aw...
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 18/11/2024
No verification system is perfect but Bluesky’s domains as usernames is pretty good. MPs could use their own websites or parliament.uk could verify them eg @/kemibadenoch.parliament.uk
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 17/11/2024
Want to nobble lobby brain? It’s here now. There’s going to be a big influx of names/institutions on Tuesday afternoon once every comms team has had their start-of-week Monday morning catch-up and taken a day to get sign-off.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 17/11/2024
Welcome to Bluesky, @theguardian.com 🦋
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Matilda Davies @matildakdavies.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I've created a starter pack of brilliant data journalists worth a follow I'll add to it when I see / think of more, but feel free to suggest additions! go.bsky.app/KTYrwk3
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 15/11/2024
From @thetimes.com: the rise of Bluesky and what it could mean for Elon Musk’s X
thetimes.com
The rise of Bluesky and what it could mean for Elon Musk’s X
The app has had more than a million sign-ups since Donald Trump’s election, as X users seek sanctuary from bots, offensive posts — and its owner’s politics
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 14/11/2024
washingtonpost.com
How to get started on Bluesky, the app some X users are defecting to
After X owner Elon Musk helped Donald Trump successfully run for office, some X users are jumping ship for the decentralized Twitter clone Bluesky.
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Going to do a quick thread of my fellow @thetimes.com reporters who are on BlueSky and why you should follow them 👇
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 14/11/2024
You know Bluesky is booming when #FPL (that’s Fantasy Premier League) accounts start joining
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Slate @slate.com · 13/11/2024
Bluesky has the edge where X once dominated: news and live events.
slate.com
Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All
The app has the edge where X once dominated: news and live events.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/11/2024
In the week since the U.S. presidential election, Elon Musk has used X, the social media platform he owns, to reiterate his support for President-elect Donald Trump. Some of X’s users have decided they want to post elsewhere. Among the largest beneficiaries of that desire is Bluesky. nyti.ms/48JtYAt
nyti.ms
Bluesky Adds One Million New Users After Election
With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 13/11/2024
Wordwork 👌
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 12/11/2024
As someone who loves and works with words, the idea of losing them is terrifying. I was moved by this story
nytimes.com
Her Job Was Talking on the Radio. Then Suddenly, Words Wouldn’t Come.
One day last winter, Alison Stewart, the host of “All of It” on WNYC, was alarmed to find herself speaking gibberish.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 12/11/2024
My migration to Bluesky is complete and it feels great. Tip for people who still need to use X sometimes for work etc: hide it from your Home Screen and put Bluesky where it was. I haven’t even opened X in ages 🦋
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 09/11/2024
“Audiences vote with their attention”
theatlantic.com
The Media’s Identity Crisis
Legacy media must compete against a choose-your-own-adventure reality.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 06/11/2024
🚨 The Times will be free to read this Wednesday and Thursday. Get your US election news and analysis at thetimes.com
Free to read. Head to thetimes.com this Wednesday and Thursday to enjoy free access
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 03/11/2024
Saw this advert on Instagram so it must be true — free access to @thetimes.com for the US election 📰✨
The US election untangled. Read free. November 6 and 7. The Times and The Sunday Times.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 02/11/2024
Revealed: the property empires that make Charles and William millions
thetimes.com
Revealed: the property empires that make Charles and William millions
The Sunday Times has uncovered every plot of land owned by the ancient Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall and the business deals with the NHS, schools and military that help fund the royals
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 31/10/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/b...
nytimes.com
A Poem Hitches a Ride on a Rocket, to Infinity and Beyond
NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 20/10/2024
My first visit to New York
Manhattan Bridge with the Empire State Building in the distance
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 20/10/2024
Our reporter’s life in Gaza — and how she fled with her children (no paywall, in @thetimes.com) www.thetimes.com/article/6ff0...
thetimes.com
Our reporter’s life in Gaza — and how she fled with her children
A year into Israel’s invasion, our Palestinian correspondent Amal Helles reflects on the world she has lost and the husband she had to leave behind
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 11/09/2024
The DJ booth at the Lexington, Islington
The words “no Oasis” written on the inside of a DJ booth
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 15/07/2024
The Worker’s Maypole by Andrea Bowers. Seen at the Tate Modern, London
Andrea Bowers 1965
Born and works US
The Worker’s Maypole,
An Offering for May Day 1894
(Illustration by Walter Crane) 2015
Ink on cardboardThe source for Bowers’ drawing is an illustration by the British artist Walter Crane (1845–1915), published in The Clarion, a socialist magazine, in 1894. Emphasising a continuous tradition of political activism, Bowers recreated the image on sections of cardboard boxes, using a permanent marker pen. She had seen similar materials used to construct placards by twenty-first century protesters such as the Occupy Wall Street encampment. She also altered some of the text on Crane’s banners to reflect more recent political campaigns. “Adult Suffrage” becomes “Equal Pay”; and “Neither Riches Nor Poverty” becomes “Healthcare is a Human Right”.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 08/06/2024
The Times and The Sunday Times are free to read this weekend. thetimes.com
Read The Times and The Sunday Times for free. This weekend only.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 04/05/2024
This features the perfect line: “Plato would have been built like a brick shithouse, if such a thing had existed in ancient Greece.”
thetimes.co.uk
Plato’s final hours could be just the beginning
The deciphering of a charred scroll found in the ruins of Herculaneum marks a scientific breakthrough capable of bringing much more of ancient Greece to life
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 01/09/2023
Visited the reopened National Portrait Gallery in London. Seeing this never gets old
Portrait of Elizabeth I in her coronation robes
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 02/08/2023
Story of the day
t.co
London Tube passengers baffled as train pulls into abandoned station
A Jubilee line train stopped at a station which has not been used by passengers for 25 years.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 01/08/2023
Oppenheimer (2023)
An empty cinema screen at Angel, London, on July 24, 2023
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