Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
@nathanboy16.bsky.social @nathanboy16.bsky.social A free-thinking soul, loves dogs and nature. Dislikes unfair policies, and enjoys life’s little joys.
Anthony ♾️🌏💡❤️🏳️🌈 @anthonymagee.com Neurodivergent AuDHD ♾️ (he/him, “Anth-o-knee”) | Data + tech for good 💡 | Heart-first ❤️ | System-aware 🌍 | Inclusion advocate 🏳️🌈 | Quiet joys, bold ideas.
Here for the big questions, quiet joys, and real connection.
Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social Writer. Author (THIS PARTY’S DEAD). Playwright (Stockroom, Slackline). Journalist (Guardian). Writing tutor (CityLit).
Social media director (Tupelo Press). Creative Writing PhD. Late-diagnosed AuDHD. Writing a novel but I’m ok.
ninalpc.bsky.social @ninalpc.bsky.social Neurodivergent, strength-based and trauma-informed therapist. Still in wonder of what’s possible when healing meets connection.
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. AND OTHER STORIES collection: https://tinyurl.com/msmv7amc. IMAGINE A FRIEND:
https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/imagine-a-friend/
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social Author, journalist, and Guardian Blind Date superfan. A body like Arnold with a Denzel face. (he/him)
theguyliner.com
theguyliner.substack.com
Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole
Add confession b3ta.com/addfess
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Run @robmanuel.b3ta.com
Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social Hello lovelies. This is my official account.. 💙💙
Glad to be over here from the "other place"😂
It's like breathing clean air again 👍🏼
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social New VBP quiz book bit.ly/3DkBcgi: VBP books, tops, cards, calendars & contact: bit.ly/3mWIF9S. Buy me a tea: ko-fi.com/robtemple
Richard Coles @richardcoles.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, musician, priest.
Twisted Pop Quiz @twistedpopquiz.bsky.social Daily lyric quiz with a difference!
Guess the song from the twisted lyric clue.
(For those new to the game, the answer is a song that charted from 1965 to 2005. If your answer is 'liked' then you got the answer right!)
https://substack.com/@musicmuseum
Andy Zaltzman @zaltzcricket.bsky.social Comedian, Cricket Statistician, Podcaster. Host of The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz. Taskmaster champion. Test Match Special statsmonger. Live shows: andyzaltzman.co.uk
Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social Our readers have understood the concept of Buyer's Remorse since 1979.
Buy the Profanisaurus or Subscribe here: https://lnk.bio/vizcomicofficial
Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social Whose Line, Whose Live, Smartest Man in the World, Greg Proops Film Club, Nightmare Before Christmas
New Album KIDDING. BUT STILL. https://lnk.to/kiddingbutstill
Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com B3ta.com, @fesshole.bsky.social, @anonopin.bsky.social
Mr Benn @thebowlerhatman.bsky.social I am a man with many hats and outfits, having adventures everywhere...
I admire the bowler hatted man from 52 Festive Road.
Michael Fenton Stevens @fentonstevens.bsky.social Actor, currently playing the Wizard in Wicked in London, host of podcast My Time Capsule here https://linktr.ee/mytcpod
Tim Minchin @timminchin.bsky.social Songwriter singer pianist actor writer comedian producer speaker poet wanker reader runner worrier.
https://linktr.ee/timminchin
Posts on this account are posted for me by my webfairy, Shell🧚♀️
Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk Surface pattern designer and illustrator. Bold, colourful things inspired by brutalist architecture, mid-century graphics and music. Based in Manchester.
https://www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social Sweary ginger designer with side hustle drawing naughty but niche greetings cards to shove up yer post boxes. Also #kittyditties
Naughty but niche cards/prints: Dippyfishcards.etsy.com
Art: ArtOfNote.sumupstore.com
Misc/tips: https://ko-fi.com/dippyfish
Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com Thames in the streets, LWT in the sheets
she/her
alisoneales.com
Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Chief political commentator and executive
editor, Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/robert-shrimsley
https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/robert-shrimsley/
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Simon Mayo @simonmayo.bsky.social Nil desperandum
🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇬🇧
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
Instagram.com/nigelslater 
Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social UK Editor & Presenter, ITV News. Host of ITV’s flagship Tonight programme, Good Morning Britain, LBC. 6 x Royal Television Society Award winner. *Author, Fight to the Death, out Oct ‘26.* https://geni.us/FighttotheDeath
Keiran Pedley @keiranpedley.bsky.social Pollster at Ipsos. Genuine poll Boffin. Expect Spurs polling and politics!!
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social
A safe, fun space for pop enthusiasts to celebrate anniversaries of fucking records.
Steve Richards @steverichards.bsky.social Political writer, broadcaster, podcaster and host of Rock N Roll Politics live shows. Latest book-Turning Points in Modern Britain
Danny Kelly @dannykellywords.bsky.social Trans Europe Express (show AND pod!), H&J on @Talksport. @vftlpodcast Spurs pod via @theathleticuk. Ex-editor NME, Q. Fast and bulbous! Located: Kilkenny and the Canyons Of My Mind
Bryan’s Gunn @bryansgunn.bsky.social A football man
RadioToday - UK & Ireland @handle.invalid Radio industry news and views
Crunch & Roll @crunchnroll.bsky.social Stories from the dysfunctional world of radio, presented by
John Fox and produced by Simon Borszowski for 969media.co.uk.
https://podfollow.com/1644313527/view
Support us: http://ko-fi.com/crunchandroll
james rushton ✌️ @jamesrushton.bsky.social Noted Brummie. Attempting Author. Aston Villa fan. Behind the scenes @newsweek. Sometimes write about god's favourite football team
Heroes & Humans of Football @heroesandhumans.bsky.social A podcast on football people, the places they came from, and the stories that shaped them. Out Thursdays.
Stu’s Football Flashbacks @stusfootyflash.bsky.social Nostalgic football blog & memories. Published writer. Obsessed with The Impossible Job. David Platt enthusiast. All clips shared from YouTube. ⚽️
90s Football @90sfootball.com The 90s were brilliant, weren't they?
Enquiries ➡️ ninetiesfootball@gmail.com.
80s90sFootball @80s90sfootball.bsky.social 80s & 90s Flashbacks, Goals, Players, Teams, Kits, A-Z's & Memories. Occasional football writer ⚽️
https://80s90sfootball.wordpress.com/
A Funny Old Game @sidlambert.bsky.social 80s/90s/00s footy nostalgia. On a YouTube odyssey for glorious goals & gaffes. Retro football writer.
Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️
Host of the FT’s award-winning ‘Political Fix’ podcast🎙️Author 📚
Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social Visiting Professor at Kings College London. Pollster, social researcher, trends and futures. Ex CEO of Ipsos globally and in UK (2009-2025) FMRS, FacSS etc
Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Greatest Hits Radio @greatesthitsuk.bsky.social Zoe Ball joins Ken Bruce and Simon Mayo this September ✨
The Biggest Songs of the 70s, 80s & 90s ⚡️
Listen on your radio, smart speaker and @hellorayo 📻
Martin Kelner @martinkelner.bsky.social Substack & several of the other platforms. Greatest hits book Wrestling In Honey, available in no good bookshops. West Ham sufferer. Remains third most famous person in Wakefield unless Jane McDonald catches something on one of her cruise ships.
JOHN NIVEN @nivenj1.bsky.social 'John Niven is a fucking idiot. Who needs him?'
Michael Winner, RIP. 
David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social Football Correspondent, The Athletic
@faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social 
Britain Elects @britainelects.com Britain's leading aggregator for polling, forecasts and election results. Run by @bwalker.uk. Est. 2013 with the late, great, Lily Jayne Summers.
Ruth Husko @dankackroyd.bsky.social If you like tweets you’re in for a treat 🤫
https://linktr.ee/Ruth_Husko
James Kanagasooriam @jameskanag.bsky.social Pollster. Chief Research Officer of @focaldata.bsky.social and Honorary Professor @UofGlasgow.bsky.social
Mat Kendrick @matkendrick.bsky.social Head of Sport, Reach (Regionals) 
George Parker @georgewparker.bsky.social Political Editor Financial Times, former FT bureau chief in Brussels. Presenter R4 Week in Westminster. Crystal Palace and Somerset CCC supporter
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
ProdnoseAsWas @lordshortcake.bsky.social Formerly famous fat head & farceur, inventor of the Zeelman Flay (pat. pending) and one half of Danny Kelly's Performing Rat Wonderland. Sole Ambassador for Threadgold's Thorough-Grip Garterettes
Currently kicking the legs up here: patreon.com/dannybaker
Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social It may look to the untrained eye, I'm sitting on my arse all day.
https://www.patreon.com/c/NeedleMythology
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things" • dylan.difford@yougov.com
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Joel Budd @joelbudd.bsky.social Journalist at the Economist, writing about life in Britain. Author of "Underdogs".
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social Public policy editor based in the Britain section at The Economist
The Football History Boys @tfhbs.bsky.social Teachers, authors & football historians -
Ben Jones and Gareth Thomas
Winners @The_FCAs 2014/Finalists 2019, 2024.
Melinda Farrell @melindafarrell.bsky.social Freelance presenter/journalist/commentator/writer. 🏏
YouGov @yougov.co.uk YouGov gathers real opinions and behaviours from worldwide panel members to power insights into what the world thinks. Join now: https://account.yougov.com
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
George Dobell @georgedobell.bsky.social Senior correspondent at The Cricketer.
Previously senior correspondent at ESPNcricinfo.
The Cricketer @thecricketer.com 
Lawrence Booth @boothcricket.bsky.social Editor of Wisden and cricket correspondent of the Daily Mail
Chris Stocks @stocksycricket.bsky.social Write about cricket for The i Paper
Christopher.Stocks@inews.co.uk
Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social 100% pure nuance.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathan-liew
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack @wisdenalmanack.bsky.social Official account of the world famous Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. Published in April.
Kevin Howells @kevinhowells.bsky.social 🎙️ 📻 🏏 🎵 📚
“Silver Springs is a great old song”
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Old Football Photos @ofp11.bsky.social We love #oldfootballphotos made before the start of the Champions League, September 1992.
#fortheloveoffootball #againstmodernfootball
Lion & Unicorn @lionunicorn.bsky.social Culture | History | Politics
thelionandunicorn.com
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com Founded MoneySavingExpert, @moneyandmentalhealth.org, (ish) the Martin Lewis Money Show ITV & Martin Lewis Podcast
Brackenlowe Halt Storyworld @brackenloweproject.bsky.social A quiet storyworld for children and grown-ups. Gentle woodland tales, old railway memories, familiar characters — and a little place called Brackenlowe Halt. Meet the signalman and his friends . . .
brackenlowehalt.co.uk
Dr Danny Penman @drdannypenman.bsky.social Author of the bestsellers 'Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World' & 'Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World.' www.franticworld.com @DrDannyPenman
@hopemichelle.bsky.social @hopemichelle.bsky.social YouTube: @HopeMichell.YouTube
REAL LIFE, authentic, CAT MOM, wife, GRANDMA, mom of 4, HOUSEWIFE, neurodivergent, AuDHD, dysthymia, TVSHOWS, Star Wars, YODA tatoo, FOOD, diet, COOKING, real life, REAL TALK, Bachelors DEGREE criminal Justice, MED Assist AA
Steph @stephroc.bsky.social SENCO with ADHD. Side hussle Artist. Mum and besotted wife. Lover of Japanese fiction, Bowie, Sly and the Family Stone and kindness. Green politics and life.
bewilderbrain @bewilderbrain.bsky.social Nature writer, mental wanderer, photographer - seeking wellness in the wild.
Finding inspiration, humour and beauty, while celebrating lifes absurdity.
Getting lost a lot while walking the wilds of Wales...
https://bewilderbrain.com/
Connect in the North @connectinthenorth.bsky.social A Centre for Inclusive Living led by people with learning difficulties
We want people with learning difficulties to have control of their lives and equal power