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Ian Moss

@thebriefwriters.com

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Politics, policy, music and blah. Partner at thebriefwriters.com, ex Senior Civil Servant, ex Labour Advisor From Stoke on Trent to the Sussex countryside.

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Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 17h

I reckon I could still quote every line from that film.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 17h

Godfather 2, Love and Death and Annie Hall are in my top ten and Keaton was outstanding in them all, a serious actor and a slapstick comic with perfect delivery. RIP www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

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Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 1d

Something something something, France looks like it’s turning Lecornu

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 1d

Self Control, certainly.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 1d

No score for Go West?

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 1d

Indeed. Housing supply turns almost all "progressives" into reactionaries. They just find different excuses to make themselves comfortable with.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 1d

You may have already pointed this out out but Cash didn't write "Ring of Fire"

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 2d

I'm with Paul Johnson on this: ifs.org.uk/articles/its... "The more harshly that landlords are taxed, the higher rents will be"

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 2d

Rents are, as you say, set according to supply/demand. Yields are low in the SE - barely above lending rate. If Landlords can't pass the tax on they will indeed exit the market, lowering supply and therefore raising price.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 2d

I don't think rental yields are particularly good at the moment. So the tax would just be passed down to the renter. I'm strongly in favour of minimum standards enforcement. I don't know how it works at the moment but funding enforcement through the fines?

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 2d

There’s tonnes of academic evidence showing that rent controls are fundamentally bad. There’s a great Krugman article now 20 yrs old explaining the simplicity of why they lock out new renters, lead to a reduction in volume and quality of rental properties etc.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 4d

Just caught up with Badenoch's speech and it's quite expensive isn't it?

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 4d

Thanks all - I’m taking Guards! Guards! on holiday with me.

I actually met Terry Pratchett once - my friend was interviewing him in the Student Union and introduced me. That’s it, that’s the story.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 4d

Am I too old to read a Discworld novel? I hear they are recommended.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 5d

Back in my days on aviation policy in Government, I went to see Heathrow T5 being built. The project head was v impressive. He went on about how the whole terminal was built around the luggage system & was tested to death as it always fails in new airports. T5 opened and the luggage system failed.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 5d

I took demijohns of my mother’s sweet elderflower wine to university. Unbottled and alcoholically lethal, me and friends used to drink it through the decanting tube. It tasted awful but they were austere times.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 5d

This use case of generative AI is,of course, also why governments don’t need to pay millions to use Deloitte any more.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 6d

Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney, says the report that Deloitte prepared for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations contained “hallucinations” because of an initially undisclosed use of generative AI. Now the government is getting its money back.

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

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Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 6d

It "could" be a Guiness Zero.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 6d

I remember someone at the time pointing out that a neighbour having a BBQ and loudly playing Ravel’s Bolero would definitely be caught.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 6d

Yes, sometimes the trick is to look at arrivals to get the right platforms if trains are running late at that station.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 6d

Ah - hope you had a nice time in my village, sorry I couldn't be there and hope it went well.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 7d

Looks like a fairly clunky UX, and nowhere near as easy to access as an app. But I'm sure does the job.

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 7d

Must be something similar though there have been other good ones that have come and gone .

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 7d

UK Live Train Times on the Apple Store. Worth the 99p a month

Ian Moss @thebriefwriters.com · 7d

Yup