Stigs Baggie Cousin
@stigswbacousin.bsky.social
also currently still on @StigsWBACousin on Twitter
my alter ego is @wendycotterill.bsky.social
my alter ego is @wendycotterill.bsky.social
Re-Hawthorns PA system being….let’s hope made better, my mate always remarked that adjusting the volume made no difference, as in his (self-appointed expert) opinion, the acoustics were the problem. I often agreed.
He passed away April 2024 with our agreement on this topic uncontested.😶🌫️
#wba
He passed away April 2024 with our agreement on this topic uncontested.😶🌫️
#wba
August 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Re-Hawthorns PA system being….let’s hope made better, my mate always remarked that adjusting the volume made no difference, as in his (self-appointed expert) opinion, the acoustics were the problem. I often agreed.
He passed away April 2024 with our agreement on this topic uncontested.😶🌫️
#wba
He passed away April 2024 with our agreement on this topic uncontested.😶🌫️
#wba
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Putting billionaire profit before people
"Data centres set to devour up to 1.37 billion litres of water EVERY SINGLE DAY"
Buyers: BlackRock, Digital Realty, Equinix
Users: Google, Meta, Oracle, OpenAI
"The UK government ... allows projects to bypass local planning dispute"
via @UnityNewsNet
"Data centres set to devour up to 1.37 billion litres of water EVERY SINGLE DAY"
Buyers: BlackRock, Digital Realty, Equinix
Users: Google, Meta, Oracle, OpenAI
"The UK government ... allows projects to bypass local planning dispute"
via @UnityNewsNet
June 12, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Putting billionaire profit before people
"Data centres set to devour up to 1.37 billion litres of water EVERY SINGLE DAY"
Buyers: BlackRock, Digital Realty, Equinix
Users: Google, Meta, Oracle, OpenAI
"The UK government ... allows projects to bypass local planning dispute"
via @UnityNewsNet
"Data centres set to devour up to 1.37 billion litres of water EVERY SINGLE DAY"
Buyers: BlackRock, Digital Realty, Equinix
Users: Google, Meta, Oracle, OpenAI
"The UK government ... allows projects to bypass local planning dispute"
via @UnityNewsNet
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This is bombshell stuff.
June 16, 2026 at 8:54 PM
This is bombshell stuff.
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I’m so glad Andy won the seat and I believe him when he talks of change but just watch the Tory press go at him now like rats and jackals. The first thing he must do is go for some kind of PR - we can’t carry on with a system where 50% plus 1 gives you power. Overturning Thatcherism - our only hope
June 19, 2026 at 7:58 AM
I’m so glad Andy won the seat and I believe him when he talks of change but just watch the Tory press go at him now like rats and jackals. The first thing he must do is go for some kind of PR - we can’t carry on with a system where 50% plus 1 gives you power. Overturning Thatcherism - our only hope
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Reform are targeting individual journalists now it seems
May 16, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Reform are targeting individual journalists now it seems
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The More Than 30 Scandal-Hit Reform Candidates Elected Last Week – Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2026/05/12/t...
bylinetimes.com/2026/05/12/t...
The More Than 30 Scandal-Hit Reform Candidates Elected Last Week
Voters last Thursday returned dozens of Reform councillors who have variously pushed Islamophobia, antisemitic conspiracy theories, Covid denial and praise for Tommy Robinson and Enoch Powell
bylinetimes.com
May 16, 2026 at 5:04 PM
The More Than 30 Scandal-Hit Reform Candidates Elected Last Week – Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2026/05/12/t...
bylinetimes.com/2026/05/12/t...
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Israel’s efforts to influence the vote for the Eurovision Song Contest to improve its international reputation were far broader than previously known, a New York Times investigation found. Here is the inside story of the controversy that almost broke Eurovision. nyti.ms/3Rellcg
May 11, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Israel’s efforts to influence the vote for the Eurovision Song Contest to improve its international reputation were far broader than previously known, a New York Times investigation found. Here is the inside story of the controversy that almost broke Eurovision. nyti.ms/3Rellcg
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Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.
May 16, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.
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Serious question..
How many “Reform councillors elected in May 2025 local elections were then shed by the party before May 2026, lasting less than a year❓
73.. yup that’s right Seventy Three - the reason for each is listed in @markpackuk.bsky.social list👇🏼
A business couldn’t survive like that 🤷🏼♂️
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How many “Reform councillors elected in May 2025 local elections were then shed by the party before May 2026, lasting less than a year❓
73.. yup that’s right Seventy Three - the reason for each is listed in @markpackuk.bsky.social list👇🏼
A business couldn’t survive like that 🤷🏼♂️
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How many councillors has Reform UK lost since May?
A list of the councillors who were elected for Reform in the May 2025 local elections but then were shed by the party before May 2026.
share.google
May 17, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Serious question..
How many “Reform councillors elected in May 2025 local elections were then shed by the party before May 2026, lasting less than a year❓
73.. yup that’s right Seventy Three - the reason for each is listed in @markpackuk.bsky.social list👇🏼
A business couldn’t survive like that 🤷🏼♂️
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How many “Reform councillors elected in May 2025 local elections were then shed by the party before May 2026, lasting less than a year❓
73.. yup that’s right Seventy Three - the reason for each is listed in @markpackuk.bsky.social list👇🏼
A business couldn’t survive like that 🤷🏼♂️
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Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.
May 11, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.
Pedants Corner
There is a trend gathering pace for people to use the phrase ‘spitting feathers’ to mean being angry.
What they actually should be saying is ‘spitting fire’.
'Spitting feathers' means to have a dry mouth or throat.
🤐🙇
There is a trend gathering pace for people to use the phrase ‘spitting feathers’ to mean being angry.
What they actually should be saying is ‘spitting fire’.
'Spitting feathers' means to have a dry mouth or throat.
🤐🙇
May 1, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Pedants Corner
There is a trend gathering pace for people to use the phrase ‘spitting feathers’ to mean being angry.
What they actually should be saying is ‘spitting fire’.
'Spitting feathers' means to have a dry mouth or throat.
🤐🙇
There is a trend gathering pace for people to use the phrase ‘spitting feathers’ to mean being angry.
What they actually should be saying is ‘spitting fire’.
'Spitting feathers' means to have a dry mouth or throat.
🤐🙇
Dear Donald
Know your onions….. 😬
Know your onions….. 😬
May 1, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Dear Donald
Know your onions….. 😬
Know your onions….. 😬
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NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC?
I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive.
The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it.
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www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...
I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive.
The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...
Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?
Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a tech company helping to destroy journalism. His appointment as leader of Britain’s biggest news organisation represents an existential threat, writes Carole...
www.thenerve.news
March 25, 2026 at 5:08 PM
NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC?
I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive.
The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...
I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive.
The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...
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We're honoured at #Newsnight to win Interview of the Year at Royal Television Society
Awards
The interview was with John & Amy Hunt who spoke to us with immense courage and dignity about the attack that killed John's wife Carol and his two other daughters Hannah & Louise
Awards
The interview was with John & Amy Hunt who spoke to us with immense courage and dignity about the attack that killed John's wife Carol and his two other daughters Hannah & Louise
March 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
We're honoured at #Newsnight to win Interview of the Year at Royal Television Society
Awards
The interview was with John & Amy Hunt who spoke to us with immense courage and dignity about the attack that killed John's wife Carol and his two other daughters Hannah & Louise
Awards
The interview was with John & Amy Hunt who spoke to us with immense courage and dignity about the attack that killed John's wife Carol and his two other daughters Hannah & Louise
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
March 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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From yesterday's Observer.
March 2, 2026 at 8:26 AM
From yesterday's Observer.
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an incredible 391 MPs and peers had to pay back expenses
and 7 went to jail
this is why this still feels like the high watermark of 21st century my UK political scandal
(for now)
My column today:
www.ft.com/content/8c5e...
and 7 went to jail
this is why this still feels like the high watermark of 21st century my UK political scandal
(for now)
My column today:
www.ft.com/content/8c5e...
How will British history remember this political scandal?
Fresh revelations can initially seem bigger than past indiscretions, from Partygate to MPs’ expenses
www.ft.com
February 26, 2026 at 10:08 AM
an incredible 391 MPs and peers had to pay back expenses
and 7 went to jail
this is why this still feels like the high watermark of 21st century my UK political scandal
(for now)
My column today:
www.ft.com/content/8c5e...
and 7 went to jail
this is why this still feels like the high watermark of 21st century my UK political scandal
(for now)
My column today:
www.ft.com/content/8c5e...
February 26, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Mandelson has had his collar felt by the looks. 😏
February 23, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Mandelson has had his collar felt by the looks. 😏
Well at least the USA now has its own version of a #FullKitW*nker
🤣🤣
🤣🤣
February 23, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Well at least the USA now has its own version of a #FullKitW*nker
🤣🤣
🤣🤣
In the end, it doesn’t matter what anyone else at btm of the Championship does, it’s what #wba does…….
but it aint over till it’s over. #GreatEscapeVeterans
but it aint over till it’s over. #GreatEscapeVeterans
February 23, 2026 at 2:31 PM
In the end, it doesn’t matter what anyone else at btm of the Championship does, it’s what #wba does…….
but it aint over till it’s over. #GreatEscapeVeterans
but it aint over till it’s over. #GreatEscapeVeterans
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The genocide in Gaza never ended — and Britain is still complicit.
February 6, 2026 at 12:50 PM
The genocide in Gaza never ended — and Britain is still complicit.
The only problem Starmer has, is that he doesn’t have anyone riding shotgun.
February 6, 2026 at 12:25 PM
The only problem Starmer has, is that he doesn’t have anyone riding shotgun.
I suppose the only reason to allow lobbying & 'think tanks', is that you can keep them in the cross-x-hairs.
The system is NOT broken,
it functions exactly the way it was meant to.
The system is NOT broken,
it functions exactly the way it was meant to.
February 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM
I suppose the only reason to allow lobbying & 'think tanks', is that you can keep them in the cross-x-hairs.
The system is NOT broken,
it functions exactly the way it was meant to.
The system is NOT broken,
it functions exactly the way it was meant to.
What if Starmer called a snap GE?
Cat & Pigeons
Cat & Pigeons
February 6, 2026 at 11:44 AM
What if Starmer called a snap GE?
Cat & Pigeons
Cat & Pigeons