Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous f**king fortune 000
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ah yeh you’ve lost your wine transmission mate…. I mean I _can_ fix it obviously but it’s not going to be cheep. Yeh yeh I’ll need to change the intergenerational approach to social drinking and that’s gonna cost you 000
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The FT really subtweeting @stephenkb.bsky.social with this headline 0272
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I read this headline very quickly and thought it said “Tim Montgomerie still hopes he will be the EU’s next member” Which would be somewhat out of character I guess 101
Reposted by Ian WigginsGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 12/07/2026🎶 Hold me closer lanky striker 🎶 #NorEng 737259
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I’d not been following the test today, thought this was ironic. Checked score. Died a little inside. 010
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Only one possible song for today, being as we are like seven inches from the midday sun 000
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Pretty sure Yorkshire had some views the last time Lancashire became a centre of political power for the UK 110
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Have just finished ‘Blood and Treasure’ by @duncanweldon.bsky.social which was excellent. And have just started on ‘The Coming Storm’ by Odd Arne Westad… so I’m doing just fine thanks for asking. 111
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Hats off to @politico.com London playbook for their The Day Today reference this morning.static.klipy.comChris Morris Says YES! on The Day TodayAlt: Chris Morris Says YES! on The Day Today 000
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I find myself this morning thinking a lot about Prophet Song by Paul Lynch which is an excellent and terrifying novel about how yes this can in fact happen here. Between flags and riots, it feels like we’re currently living some of the early chapters. 000
Reposted by Ian WigginsSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response. 241852398
Reposted by Ian WigginsSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough. 10556071590
Reposted by Ian WigginsSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The racism we're seeing across the right today is vile and dangerous but it's also a sign of desperation. Three parties all fighting over the votes of aging authoritarians. 601456268
Reposted by Ian WigginsMichael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social · 03/06/2026As ever @stephenkb.bsky.social gets to the actual issue, past the noise. Well worth reading www.ft.com/content/aa94...ft.comWhat Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policingKemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ 32910
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 02/06/2026When I lived in Moscow it was fairly common knowledge that the police would rent out radar guns from more senior officers so that they could in turn extract fines from motorists. So these developments feel somewhat unsurprising… 021
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026This piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social and the one @robertshrimsley.bsky.social are vital reads this morning. I’ll link to both below. As others have said, it is time to Make Racists Embarrassed Again 100
Reposted by Ian WigginsDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/05/2026This is really important. There's a tendency to conflate 'free speech' with 'uncurated speech' but they're different. Social signalling is how we avoid having to criminalise and enforce many difficult to define but terrible behaviours. The choices reputable institutions make shape that signal. 725695
Reposted by Ian WigginsEddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026How BBC Radio York covered York City's title-winning equaliser. 2023693
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 25/04/2026What. A finish. Rochdale score 90+5. York equalises 90+13!!! The BBC Radio York commentary is just a joy to listen to 100
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Two very important games going on right now for my original hometown and my adopted one 000
Reposted by Ian WigginsRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 08/04/2026There was a non-zero chance yesterday that the US president was thinking about using nuclear weapons. The most optimistic interpretation was that he was planning the catastrophic destruction of civilian infrastructure. Diplomacy seems like the sensible approach in that situation. 1872
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 08/04/2026This is an excellent summation of what was an impossibly mad 24 hours. 010
Reposted by Ian WigginsThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The events of the last few hours, written down in one place, by the great chronicler of the US @hcrichardson.bsky.social 410045
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I feel like I’m a fairly seasoned (and therefore jaded) Trump watcher, including time up close in DC. But this latest post is a new level of shocking and horrifying. 000
Reposted by Ian WigginsThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Trump may not carry out the threat. But the fact he even made such a threat means he should immediately be removed from office. For that is the purpose of a constitution with checks and balances. 172023399
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Top tip: setting this as your desktop wallpaper and staring at it for a while can tune out the news for at least a few mins. 020
Reposted by Ian WigginsThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order. Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not. For there can be no greater test for any constitution. 391415464
Reposted by Ian WigginsKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026Reid Wiseman on #Artemis II: "We have Earth out window 4 and Moon out window 3... the Moon is about 3-4 times the size of the Earth and it is almost full, and the Earth is just a small crescent out there... it's magnificent... such a majestic view out here" Mission Control: "Amaze, amaze, amaze!" 333380589
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026This also sums up a lot of how I’ve been feeling this weekend. It really does set an edge to the phenomenal achievements of Artemis 000
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026This is an excellent thread from a prof who I wouldn’t say is know for hyperbole. For @profsaunders.bsky.social to say “terrified” is, well, a bit terrifying tbh 1153
Reposted by Ian WigginsKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕 231130443679
Reposted by Ian WigginsEmma Dabbadoo 🌸🏳️⚧️💚 @emmadabbadoo.eurosky.social · 24/03/2026This is not just a mic drop, it’s an M&S mic drop. 412528535
Reposted by Ian WigginsStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026“You finished those DC metro stations?” “Sure thing boss, beautiful, moodily lit and oddly unsettling, just like you asked.” “What?” 1061893221
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I had to go and check this was real, and…wowzers… Doing that in the 8th when you’re already winning by eight is, essentially, a war crime 010
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Coming up later today at #AAASmtg - Rethinking Science Diplomacy in a Fractured World. Join me for a fantastic panel with experts from the US, EU and U.K. - West 102 C at 11:30am 120
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Well this is just the update you want to see as you board a flight to the US… 000
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Delighted to see our former Foreign Secretaries win this award. And if you’re at #AAASmtg this week do join our session on Science Diplomacy 11:30 AM local time on Friday! 130
Reposted by Ian WigginsMartin Smith @martinrsmith.bsky.social · 09/02/2026There's a risk UK participation rates in Horizon Pillar II becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy - the more we create fresh uncertainty about future participation because of low success, the more we disrupt potential collaboration. So maybe... let's not do that? 142
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026If “that that” is good enough for Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address then I think we can all be okay with it 001
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Look, I’m just saying I’ve never seen Jason Mantzoukas and the Great Gonzo in the same room together… 010
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Unironically very pro this whole idea! Connecting these cities with high speed rail is a sensible and good thing to do! (But please let’s start with the Leeds - Manchester - Liverpool corridor which in any sensible country would already be a major and connected metro area) 130
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Really excellent thread this - well worth reading all the way through 020
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Got this, by @juliaioffe.bsky.social, for Christmas and just finished it. Fantastic read, albeit tragic (like so much of anything about Russia). Made me both nostalgic for the Moscow I left in 2012, and deeply sad for the Russia we might have seen. 020