Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It is as if all the antisemites who infected the LabourParty in Corbyn’s time moved en masse to the Greens 3131
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I found the column ahistorical then and now. Opposition to the existence of Israel after 1948 is like opposing the existence of Ukraine. 000
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 “Don’t leave the hall in the middle of my speech” is what she meant to say. 000
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“It is in my claimant commitment. The previous one said I had to apply for four new policies a week. Now I just have to turn up and nod.” 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In generał use before Covid according to Wiki. Twitter seemed to accelerate the term after 2010. 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He Works in IT and his nickname at work is Honkytonk 001
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Not so long sińce that was the typical content of a Green leaflet in Sheffield 020
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I may be looking at this too much through the lens of Sheffield which (historically) could have been the Waveney voter 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Could be local election young voters? Nationally they have reached a ceiling but locally are they getting squeezed? 101
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Does it feel different living in a by-election as opposed to covering one elsewhere? 110
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It is a comment on how the journalist in the piece brings the profession into disrepute. Not you, obvs. 020
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Conversation with my OH …. Why do journalists think they are intelligent? It’s a mystery. 130
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I remember one external Member who used to performatively put his C&A suit jacket on a chair so TU negotiators could see the label. ( He wore Savile Row when attending BoE). 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 16/09/2026He has almost perfected the whining language he needs for this video. 020
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 14/09/2026IF the AI reaches the level of AGI (Artificial Generał Intelligence) then recursive self-improvement could theoretically *invade* any codę embedded in the internet of things (from fridges to drones). When I first worked in IT in the 70s cancer programs were seen as the ultimate threat. 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 14/09/2026My proposal is that a) scrap VAR b) ban video replays of contraversial decisions c) stitch the ensuing debatę on a seventyfoot tapestry 000
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Dob’tknow the reason for capitalising but there at least three organisations campaigning on this (nonę with that name). Perhaps that is why the bill became so unwieldy? 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The problems (in both) arise because boomers (me) are getting old. Needs age verification and profiling …. but don’t worry it’s on its way. 000
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The politics of this were that Badenoch needs a Chancellor who can get through to Reform, Lab and Lib voters as well as the Tory base. That basic point seems to have passed her by completely. 060
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 31/08/2026True - he was well known in Yorkshire as a regional stalwart then rose without trace. 000
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Starting your own business as Hollinrake did is what most of us associate with Conservative enterprise. Joining Rothschild then Sky … not so much. 000
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 30/08/2026But Stephen, AV sounds like SV whereas FPTP sounds like vegan sausages 000
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I’ve been reading Bryan Magee’s memoir of his Hoxton childhood. Proper writing with an insight clearly developed through the process. Equally I found the Mingus memoir on my shelf which is as unreliable as it gets but very entertaining. 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I am reminded now of David Waddington - unremittingly loyal to the Tory Party but with views that would be very comfortable in Reform. The difference is that he enjoyed being a boring old buffer but just got on with every job he was given until it became clear he couldn’t hack it. 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I just migrated to Graysky surely a cheaper way to solve the problem? 000
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I engaged with the issue of neurodivergence and avoiding plagiarism. TBH I struggled with avoiding plagiarism in a master’s dissertation so heaven knows what a thesis would be like. The issue not addressed (for fear of firestorm?) is what reasonable adjustments need to be made. 110
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Well I volunteer and avoid commitments clashing with the 9:30 travel start. It may be a *nudge* thus improving productivity as well as employment for very little cost. 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Ah but do you regret that milquetoast endorsement of Spartacus? 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Of more relevance - you cannot have a policy encouraging more disabled people to work while telling them to travel at different times to other workers. One for the #joineduppolicy team 2171
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I was most struck reading David Kynaston’s book on the City how the merchant houses waxed and waned through the slave trade. In particular, the description of the fall of Smith Payne gives some grim satisfaction. 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Given that traditional AI once hoped to solve the supply chain bullwhip effect (and negate revealed preference) your comment can be elevated to a general rule. Must have been a good holiday. 000
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It is important when journalists admit their fallibilities because they speak for all of us. It shows the folly of thinking you/we *know* a person. This one’s harder because two facts cannot be escaped - the subject was neurodivergent and black. In my youth he would have spent his life in hospital. 020
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Mind you, back in the 80s when visiting friends I thought Elephant & Castle *was* Assault on Precinct 13. 031
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 10/08/2026My fave is precinct. How did we end up using it to describe a shopping centre? 141
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"It was a cave, a real cave”. In 2026 who would be a publisher (unless you are of course *a platform*) 000
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Or rent privately (the term Rachmanism comes to mind). 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Recent research (from Southampton Uni.) suggests that clients preferred the language of AI bot to that of the lawyer. 010
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 07/08/2026There are techniques (e.g, Retrieval- Augmentation Generation) that can improve the accuracy (or statistical probability of accuracy) of specialist subject specific LLMs. However, free LLMs that the public are encouraged to use are genies out of the bottle. Rethink informal v formal advice needed. 000
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I remember a MD in Motherwell responding to my consultancy pitch with “I know all about cultural change, laddie. Rangers have just signed Mo Johnston”. 030
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 05/08/2026In which Mr Bush discovers evolutionary biochemistry 000
Simon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 05/08/2026However, ‘‘tis hard to see any credible Tory candidate for any Mayoralty (Grant Shapps anyone?) 000
