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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 29/09/2026

Fourth leg of the Loop — Hayes to Hamsey Green

White cat seen through a viewing bubble in a fence

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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 20/09/2026

Third leg of the Loop — Petts Wood to Hayes

George Henry March and family gravestone in St Giles cemetery

Big chopped tree on its side in High Elms Country Park

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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 · 21/08/2026

Second leg of the Loop — Bexley to Petts Wood

Monument to William Willett, the untiring advocate of British Summer Time

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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

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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

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 cardboard

The 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 · 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 · 12/07/2023

In 1985 The Times marked its 200th birthday with a book. This advert from its pages makes for interesting reading … bring on the holograms

What will your great great grandchildren be looking at in a hundred years from now to mark three centuries of The Times? Will there even be a Times then? The need will still be there for the same objective reporting of contemporary events coupled with interpretation and comment. But will it appear daily in the form of black text and pictures printed on paper? Probably not. It may, for instance, appear on a hand-held screen with direct access to a news databank transmitting constantly updated text and pictures of selected subjects of interest to the individual reader. The equivalent of this commemorative book may be a disk, a series of holograms harking back to the quaint old days of paper and ink or even, as an exercise in nostalgia, a genuine book. We at Ben Johnson, the printers of this book, do not claim to have the answer yet to the 2085 edition but we are working on it.

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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 07/07/2023

It’s been 100 days since Evan Gershkovich, of The Wall Street Journal, was detained by Russia during a reporting trip and falsely accused of espionage. Journalism is not a crime. He must be released immediately

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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 07/06/2023

Does anyone else still own DVDs? For me, they’re nice to look at and there’s a sense of ownership that’s been lost in the age of digital downloads 📀

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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 05/06/2023

This building is 400 years old. It’s the only building on the Strand that still survives from the time of the Great Fire of London … which is slightly different to what’s claimed on the plaque! (The fire didn’t spread as far as the Strand)

A narrow, four-storey building on the Strand in central London

A plaque above the door states: “Built 1625. The only Strand building to survive the Great Fire of London”

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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 28/05/2023

I’m ready for the Succession finale … are you?

A Waystar Royco baseball cap and a grey T-shirt with the words: “Connor Roy was interested in politics from a young age.”

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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 23/05/2023

🌅 The view from Times headquarters this evening

View of the River Thames with St Paul’s Cathedral

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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 20/05/2023

I’ve been touring “ghost stations” on the London Underground, or abandoned sections of stations still in use, for several years. Here are some photos from Aldwych, London Euston and Charing Cross

Equipment stored in a tunnel at London Euston

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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 20/05/2023

In January I was confronted with the opening lines to Jazz by Toni Morrison and they’ve been ricocheting in my head ever since. I could write a 10,000-word dissertation on this extract. Every word fights for its place. Wow

Sth, I know that woman. She used to live with a flock of birds on Lenox Avenue. Know her husband, too. He fell for an eighteen-year-old girl with one of those deepdown, spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going. When the woman, her name is Violet, went to the funeral to see the girl and to cut her dead face they threw her to the floor and out of the church. She ran, then, through all that snow, and when she got back to her apartment she took the birds from their cages and set them out the windows to freeze or fly, including the parrot that said, “I love you.”

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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 16/05/2023

What’s your favourite word? Mine’s whirligig: anything that whirls about, spins or moves in a circular or giddy way

1877 patent drawing of “Toy Buzz” whirligig

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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 15/05/2023

Speaking of the Tube, I used Midjourney AI to create this wild map of an underground network. I love it

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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com · 15/05/2023

I was struck by the haunting beauty of this accidental art(?) after an advert was removed at Angel Tube station

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