Tim Dixon
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@dixontim
Co-founder of @Moreincommon_ and more. Ex-PM's speechwriter. Working to unite divided societies.
🌎 What makes you feel proud of your country? 🗣️ Though responses vary across 25 nations, at least some people in each country say they are proud of their politics and economics. 🧵⬇️
JUST RELEASED: #BeyondMAGA, our new study of 12,000+ Trump voters, reveals Trump built a coalition, not a cult. Only 38% of his 77 million voters say being 'MAGA' is important to them. We identified 4 distinct types of Trump voters—each with different motivations and worldviews. Meet the MAGA Hardliners, Anti-Woke Conservatives, Mainline Republicans, and Reluctant Right: BeyondMAGA.us
In 2020 @Moreincommon_ launched the British 7 Segments. After a pandemic, major global conflicts, political upheaval, cost of living crisis, changes in work/social/information habits it’s time to update them for 2025. Here’s an intro to our new tribes of Britain (Quiz link next)
I’ve written for @SpecCoffeeHouse about people’s stories in focus groups of how they’ve turn inward and become less social since the pandemic and the risk it leaves us lonelier, more isolated less cohesive and less open to new experiences. (Link next)
We spent the start of this week in Merthyr Tydfil & Dudley two top Reform targets talking to voters in a series of focus groups to try find out how real Farage’s party’s momentum is. I’ve written about the deep disillusionment we found in today’s @guardian (link in next post).
🆕 🧵@Moreincommon_ @WeAreNewBritain research for @NEUnion finds Gen Z Britons aged 16-24 think social media has become more addictive, more negative and less safe for young people in last 5 years and by 3-1 they think social media does more harm than good for under 16s.
Now available Open Access: 📰 Does (immigration) framing influence public opinion? 🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Pleased to be alongside @KemiBadenoch and @LauraTrottMP on this. Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union, called for “deep-seated reform of the way social media is regulated” telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/2…
"Syria is free." Extraordinary moment as @clarissaward and her team witness a Syrian prisoner freed from a secret prison in Damascus. Left alone for days without food, water or light, the man was unaware Bashar al-Assad's regime had fallen.
