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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

There are many, many things I would like to say about civil service HR and disciplinary processes which would get me into trouble, so let me just say that I am so, so heartbroken for her family and I hope (but don’t expect) that this will lead to real change.

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We should never have left Egypt

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

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Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting

Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

@graysky.app why is my app frozen on a specific post?

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

@lutheblue.bsky.social I hope you will be following up the suspected explosive device in the Lansdowne Estate as their is local concern as this was only one mile from the local synagogue.

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Instructive piece from 2024 that may explain some of the political shift in SCOTUS seen in the wildly different interpretations of the Justices (on every side!) in the Tariff case. llso.uchicago.edu/llso-review/ardy-…

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The Major Questions Doctrine: An Inquiry Into Doctrinal Shifts and Supreme Court Power

By Annemarie Colette Ardy

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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Tom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

We really don't say often enough... THIS FUCKER IS TOTALLY BATSHIT INSANE

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 12/01/2026

WARNING! Carers, don't trust ur council's info on Carer's Council Tax Discount, more than 1 in 5 councils' online info is wrong. They miss crucial eligibility criteria which makes many who are eligible for 25% discount think they aren't FULL INFO: www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2026/01...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

No mention of pavement parking in the new Road Safety Strategy 😞 This is a key safety issue for many yet there has been no government response since the consultation on it closed in November 2020!! transportactionnetwork.org.uk/road-safety-...

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Road safety strategy leaves vulnerable road users exposed

Road safety strategy leaves vulnerable road users exposed Transport Action Network (TAN)1 has welcomed today’s publication of the government’s Road Safety Strategy2. The strategy, long overdue, contai...

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I guess the FO lawyers recognised as real-politik Thatcher’s 1989 embrace of George HW Bush and subsequent veto of the Nicaragua UNSC resolution. But they still advised the action was unlawful. Today embrace and veto look risky forward positions.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Important letter from an actual expert

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Limbering up for the meal with vinyl - Song X (Ornette/Metheny) and Let my Children Hear Music (Mingus). The Mingus is possibly the best orchestral music I have listened to all year and very Christmassy!

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Did Badenoch really say we don’t want a welfare state but a safety net? The term "welfare state" itself was coined by William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1941 to contrast Britain's goals with Nazi Germany's. Yet again Badenoch demonstrates she doesn’t put the work in to understand Britain.

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

“The censures are deemed necessary” seemed like something out of historical fiction or Henry V dismissing Falstaff. Does the phrase have any precedent in legal or monarchical convention?

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The @torstenbell.bsky.social joke about Ed Davey was surely “Wet bloke in a fat suit” ???

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marlebone.bsky.social @marlebone.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

If you want a nuanced, fact-based, human and honest analysis of the Israel-Hamas war and the state of the Israeli democracy read this piece by Fania Oz-Salzberger.

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

One of the Dem leaders has commented that Trump “folded like a cheap suit”. This expression has never worked for me (grandson of tailors and booky) - I assumed it came from pulp fiction or Runyon but see this grammarphobia.com/blog/2016/04/fold…

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Fold like a cheap X

Why do people fold like a cheap whatever?

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It is raining. I often think category mistakes are just a philosophical parlour game but have just learned a biscuit museum has received a lawyer’s cease and desist letter for including Jaffa Cakes.

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

One of the mysteries of online journalism is the *helpful* graphic - which in this story is a map showing a town in Hampshire and (why?) Swallownest interactive.guim.co.uk/uploader/emb…

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

“And now, after a piece of soundless straw blowing ….. architecture!” BBC premier talk programme plumbs the depths.

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

If I am hearing the debate on UC and PIP correctly, then Marie Tidball is wringing another concession from government. I am waiting with baited breath for the winding up @stephenkb.bsky.social

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Absolute classic cycling end of stage in Tour of Britain on Friday - a circuit of East Cleveland featuring Saltburn Bank twice. I walked up that bank every day for nearly ten years … www.britishcycling.org.uk/tourofbri…

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Big Lie institutionalizes itself through the children.

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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"There's a real risk of looking at it in isolation and thinking we can crack down on costs here and make savings." @pollardtom.bsky.social speaking to the DWP select committee today about why making benefit cuts to meet specific government savings targets just won't work

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is why I am unconvinced that midterms are the corrective some seem to be anticipating. He clearly intends never to hold free elections again.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I don't think it's being talked about enough that Trump is basing his tariff assaults on Peter Navarro, and Navaro's theories rest on the "research" of "Ron Varo" which is an economist he made up and cited for decades: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-e...

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Rachel Maddow: Trump crashed the world's markets based on the advice on a fictional economist

YouTube video by Egberto Willies (Politics Done Right)

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Well I think the Heathrow Disaster Recovery team have done a cracking job. I just wish the News listened closely to the CEO explain that the time to reopen after switching power supply is constrained by the need to re-test all the mechanical systems. This was not a single point of failure problem!

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

A cracking Evan Parker session last night in Sheffield in a venue reminding me of the Little Theatre Club off St. Martins fifty years ago. It was his rich tone, bluesy lyricism and humour that shone. Fifty years ago I think I just heard the stellar technique.

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

For @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social on PIP changes. I spent the last 12 years helping clients fill in forms and appeal at Tribunal. My focus was alleviating poverty, including using *two points bingo* to get an award. IF government succeed in reducing poverty through training & work - I am content.

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Why are Beeb journalists obsessed with using the term *pips* - I do ‘t know anybody claiming, advising, receiving PIP using that word? And if Amol Rajan put a tenth of energy into understanding our benefit system as spin bowling we might all know more

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

"[T]hose two cruel bullies are duly elected leaders of my country, and they claim to speak and act for my country. And as a citizen, I must accept a share of political responsibility for the depths to which my country has fallen. . ."--Jeffrey C. Isaac

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Letter to a Ukrainian Friend - Democracy Seminar

Photo: "President Trump clashes with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Meeting in the Oval Office on Feb. 28, 2025." Source: The White House. From Wikimedia Commons. February 28, 2025 My friend, Only hour...

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

See Grantchester - in the long history of brutal murders of archeology professors has a body been discovered outside spitting distance of a dig? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/20…

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Listen closely to Lawrence O’Donnell’s account of the astonishing break-in Trump’s Treasury Secretary has allowed Elon Musk to pull off: youtu.be/BIOaxR_UHIQ?...

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Lawrence: Trump letting Musk intrude into Treasury is biggest, most important data breach ever

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Amazing version of Nature Boy by an early music group on Radio 3

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Another symptom of oligopoly

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This could be published today with a slight alteration.

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This Peter Thiel FT op-ed is interesting as insight into the tech-bro Year Zero mentality: views all analogue-legacy institutions and culture as obsolescent and morally corrupt. Also, prose style of a serial killer manifesto. www.ft.com/content/a46c...

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A time for truth and reconciliation

Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

@wheresmybook.bsky.social Happy Hanukkah! Wishing you and yours a happy and peaceful time filled with love and light

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Of Seven Nation Army @theguardian.com says “there’s a reason it became ubiquitous: that riff, which somehow sounds like it always existed, is the kind of thing you hit upon once in a career.” Qv Bruckner’s 5th Scherzo for the original!

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My word of the day is *scantling* - from objectivist poet George Oppen - word as thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantling

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Scantling - Wikipedia

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Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

So first a few reflections on Twitter on which I no longer post. In 2006 I thought it was interesting and worthy of research and experimentation …

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