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
Jonathan Jones @sirjjkc.bsky.social Sir Jonathan Jones KCB KC (Hon). Ex Treasury Solicitor and private sector lawyer.
Various non-executive, consultancy, academic and charitable roles
Law, constitution, government, cocktails
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Stephen Evans @stephenevans.bsky.social Chief Executive, Learning and Work Institute.
Ex HMT, SMF and London government.
Learning, skills, labour markets & public policy.
Views my own.
Islington Clean Air Parents @islingtoncleanair.bsky.social Campaigning for clean air in Islington and London to protect all children against the damaging health effects of toxic air pollution 💙💙💙islingtoncleanairparents.co.uk
Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer.
www.melbrooks.com
@vpallemans.bsky.social @vpallemans.bsky.social 
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Emma Burnell @emmaburnell.bsky.social Editor of LabourList. Playwright. Cool aunt.
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Jessica Studdert @jesstud.bsky.social Always searching for good coffee.
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.
Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social Research, analysis & grey-skies thinking on labour markets, social security, public finance & equality. Usual disclaimer. Cheap foreign labour 🇮🇪. Profile pic is Takashi Shimura with Toshiro Mifune in Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, 1949).
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social Legal Translator and University Lecturer based in Messina. Sicily, mafia, Italian justice system.
Mafia Chronicles: nicholaswhithorn.substack.com
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705 
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Substack: substack.com/@dmitryopines
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social Former economist and civil servant. Former (age related) national cycling champion. Still a music fan. Sewn up member of the Zipper Club.
Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social London Assembly Member since 2016, Green Group Leader and Chair Transport Committee. Highbury Cllr 2014-26. Green Party
https://cityhallgreens.com/
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of Caroline Russell, Green Party, c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Robert Harris @robertharrishome.bsky.social Author of 16 novels — Conclave, Fatherland, Enigma, Act of Oblivion, The Ghost, Pompeii. Precipice, An Officer and a Spy, The Cicero Trilogy, Archangel, Munich, V2, The Second Sleep, The Fear Index.
Dr Joe Hoover @drjoehoover.bsky.social Professional philosopher, amateur musician.
Author of Living Just Enough for the City: Experiments in Urban Political Theory, https://tinyurl.com/yc842k69
Also: https://anothermotelvoice.substack.com/ and https://joseph-hoover.org/.
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
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
PSA Political Thought Specialist Group @psapolthought.bsky.social Political Thought specialist group of the UK Political Studies Association. Convenors: Simon Choat & Michael Keary. Become a member: https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/political-thought
Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social Working in data viz and generative design. Data Visualisation & Information Design Lead, City Intelligence Unit, London City Hall. Also @mikebrondbjerg@vis.social
Marta Wojciechowska @mwojciechowska.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics @King’s College London
Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social A celebration of all the Shit Stuff imposed on our environment. Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental ne’er do wells.
Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary.
Posting in a personal capacity.
Texts mostly in LRB, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Architectural Review.
Representation: Wylie.
Archon Fung @politicsprof.bsky.social Director @harvardash@bsky.social. Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School. I study participatory democracy. All views expressed here are my own.
General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social LSE journalism professor
I run the LSE Polis Journalism and AI project
Hammer
Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social Freelance food and wine journalist. Co-author of Rooted in Change: The Stories Behind Sustainable Wine. Check out my blog: https://aviewfrommytable.substack.com/ and my podcast with Telegraph wine critic Victoria Moore https://bit.ly/3XweQ4m
Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social Chair, Generation Rent. Play England. Paddington, South Kilburn and OPDC. Former MP for Westminster North. Labour. Housing, Sondheim, Springsteen and other passions. Views entirely personal..
Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
https://linktr.ee/garysecon
Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things" • dylan.difford@yougov.com
Henry Tufnell MP @tufnellhenry.bsky.social Welsh Labour MP for Mid & South Pembrokeshire 🌹
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb
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
Kino Zhao @kinozhao.bsky.social Philosopher of science: measurement, statistics, and methodology in psychology. Simon Fraser University. https://kinozhao.com/
James Hickson @jmchickson.bsky.social Political theorist and policy researcher at the Heseltine Institute, University of Liverpool.
Magda Maaoui, PhD @magdamaaoui.bsky.social housing + environmental health.
Asst. Professor of urban planning @gsd.harvard.edu
Co-lead healthy places design lab
Formerly OECD, Paris planning, Ad’A
www.magdamaaoui.com
currently working on hospitals x housing, any lead/personal story welcome
jd @johnnydobbo.com aka Hutton Mulgrave https://johnpdobson.com/hutton-mulgrave/
Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social History postdoc in Gotha (FZG) and Turin (THP), soon Halle (IZEA).
Working on race, politics, and education in the German Enlightenment (and beyond). Interested in all things early modern. Enjoys hiking, hummus, horror films, and heavy metal. Jewish.
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
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social Exec Director, Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights
War, justice, #civilianrights
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Stuart White @stuartgwhite.bsky.social I am an academic interested in political theory, anti-oligarchic political economy, and democracy. I post in a personal capacity and reposting does not necessarily mean agreement. He/him.
Neil O'Brien @neildotobrien.bsky.social Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby & Wigston.
Local news:
http://facebook.com/neil4harborough
Blog:
https://neilobrien.co.uk
Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social Philosopher, writer, podcaster. Co-founder of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Author of A Little History of Philosophy and many other books. Weekly column Everyday Philosophy in The New World magazine. Consultant editor Aeon.co and Five Books.
@harrietgugenheim.bsky.social @harrietgugenheim.bsky.social 
Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy |The Health Foundation | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
Michael Kenny @michaelkenny.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy, Inaugural Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge, Author
LSE US Politics and Policy blog - USAPP @lseusablog.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary blog covering all aspects of USA governance, economics, politics, culture and society. Also covers Canada and Mexico. Part of the LSE Phelan United States Centre.
Read all our articles at https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social Living in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Contributing to Ukrainian voices online | support me : PayPal: kate.boguslavskaya@gmail.com | http://buymeacoffee.com/kateinkharkiv
LSE European Politics @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary blog covering European politics, economics, culture and society. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/3zm5rUV
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Dr Balki Begum Bayhan @bbbayh.bsky.social Researching authoritarian politics| Freelance writer| Focus on Turkey and post-Soviet countries | Previously PhD at Coventry| Views my own.
Michael Eades @drmichaeleades.bsky.social Head of Civic Engagement at Goldsmiths, University of London. Cities, engagement, art, nature, surrealism. Research as practice. Writer and walker www.michaeleades.net
Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.* 
Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social Architecture critic, The Observer
New edition of Property out in January 
Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6
Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social UCL Bartlett Professor of Cities and Regions at CASA: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Academician, urban planner, geographer, scientist, film historian, futurist, pro-rail. Believe in creating inclusive future places for all
Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Politics & Public Policy, London School of Economics & Political Science.
Interests - digital era governance, democratic audit & renewal, theories of the state, elections & party competition.
And in open social science, universities.
Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social Writer, historian, Contrib Ed, FT, Robert Bosch Fellow, Berlin, author These Divided Isles, and Britain Alone (both Faber), British, Irish and European. philipstephens.substack.com, philipstephens.net
Catherine Needham @catherineneedham.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy and Public Management, Uni of Bham. Interested in social care, the public service workforce and crosswords, https://21stcenturypublicservant.wordpress.com/
Mark Zwolinski @markzwolinski.bsky.social Professor of Electronic Engineering. AI sceptic. Fan of unusual music. Birdwatcher. Connossieur of good beer and wine. And much more.
Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social Commentator on Middle East, international politics & Director of @Caabu Council for Arab-British Understanding. (Views mine alone)
Rick Muir @rickmuirbskysocial.bsky.social Policing Advisor at the UK Home Office. Previously Director of the Police Foundation and Associate Director at IPPR. Dad. From Teesside #UTB.
Philip Glanville @philipglanville.bsky.social VMO: Campaigner, politico, proud ♥️ Hackney & London - likes urbanism, community, culture, cooking, #ParkRun, F45, travel, housing, architecture, theatre, climate action, public transport & fmr Mayor.
John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social Professor | Former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister | Director, Centre for English Identity and Politics | Writing about how ideas of nation and nationhood shape politics today at nationstateandpolitics.substack.com ✍️
Bill Browder @billbrowder.bsky.social Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and author of Red Notice and Freezing Order
UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua The initiative of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy
The main platform for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine
u24.gov.ua
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social Economics writer at The New Yorker. Author of “Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI" and other beach reads.
LSE European Institute @lse-ei.bsky.social Welcome to the official account of the LSE European Institute, one of the largest centres for the study of Europe in the world. Follow for news, public events & more. http://lse.ac.uk/ei
Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com Political theorist @lsepoltheory.bsky.social. Author of Citizen Marx. www.brunoleipold.com
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social Ancienne Maire de Paris
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman.bsky.social FT columnist. Also have podcast. Author of three and a half books. Four kids. Two cats. One wife. Numerous friends. Fulham fan.
Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory
Former Head of Department of Government and PVC Education
London School of Economics
Author Against Post-liberalism: Why Faith, Family and Flag is a Dead End for the Left, Polity Press 2025
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social My book RICARDO’S DREAM - a 'simply brilliant' critique of mainstream economics - came out in Nov '24. Fellow of Schumacher Institute. Formerly with Global Witness & PEP. www.natdyer.com
@jenmtreadwell.bsky.social @jenmtreadwell.bsky.social 
Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social Philosopher at CEU Vienna. Director of Research, FWF Cluster of Excellence, 'Knowledge in Crisis'. Author of The Mechanical Mind, Elements of Mind, The Objects of Thought, Aspects of Psychologism, The Meaning of Belief www.timcrane.com
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social News from the LSE political theory group https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/research/research-groups/political-theory