Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026IIRC there’s a whole mini plot for the West Wing when they’re considering moving the press pack across the street to the OEOB, do some polling for it and the pollster calls a member of the WH press pool… 000
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 · 16/09/2026I spent a while thinking “electric raspberry pink boxes” was some arcane BoE way of moving money around until I realised it was just referring to the colours in the diagram 🤦🏼♂️ 010
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 · 08/09/2026Haha - I also suspect it could well be the name of his pro-EU sock puppet on the other place 😄 000
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
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Escalators that go up are called Upscalators. Downscalators also exist, obviously. 4120
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Love this. Follow up question: is there a difference between a silver band and a brass band? Or is that just the name of the band? 100
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Not the main issue, but I also fully agree with how Pádraig defines the left side (if you were standing at the foot of the bed facing it) which is objectively correct and yet has caused no end of argument with my wife who defines left/right by the perspective of someone sitting in bed 000
Reposted by Ian WigginsGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 12/07/2026🎶 Hold me closer lanky striker 🎶 #NorEng 737259
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 27/06/2026static.klipy.comJim Carrey: So You're Telling Me There's a Chance?Alt: Jim Carrey: So You're Telling Me There's a Chance? 010
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 · 25/06/2026I had a colleague once, from Northumbria, who insisted on saying Sheffield was in “the North Midlands”. 7101
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 24/06/2026(Joking aside, I think this is an excellent move - proper devolution of the civil service out of Whitehall will only happen when ministers and senior officials are also outside of London for extended periods of time) 010
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 · 16/06/2026Having had both ours early compared to my peers (late twenties so not *early* early) I will now aspire to be exactly this person in the WhatsApp groups 😂 000
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Fair to say that also came across in the text too 010
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Thanks for writing it! My favourite moment was when my wife asked me what I was reading and I said it was a book about economics and warfare… and the current chapter was around pirates and their incentive structures. To which she (who works in HR) said, disbelievingly,“what, like performance pay”?! 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 · 11/06/2026Today I learned that ciabatta is a millennial. Which tracks, honestly. 030
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. 241851398
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. 10556051589
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026And with huge cultural cut through too. As an example: Pretty much anyone my age knows that “Nicole” should be followed by “Papa?” 030
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. 601455267
Ian Wiggins @itswiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This was excellent. I agree lots of people haven’t engaged at all in the detail. And for those who have, there’s a disingenuous point about the police - do they really think if roles reversed (minority victim; two white men saying they’d been attacked) that the police would have acted differently? 000
Reposted by Ian Wiggins🦇 Michael (Spooky) 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 32810
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 · 05/05/2026Links here: www.ft.com/content/f9ee... The shrinking of Jewish life in Britain And www.ft.com/content/5cdf... How not to defeat antisemitismft.comThe shrinking of Jewish life in BritainIt should be entirely possible to be anti-Israel without sinking to dehumanising language 000
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 · 25/04/2026And Worthing won too! The Rebels into the Conference! 010
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