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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
Jason Billenness-Clarke @jason-b-c.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University | Former Prison Officer, Interventions Facilitator, and Police Officer (firearms) | Gay 🏳️🌈 Autistic ♾️ | Penology, prison reform, social justice, public criminology | Views are my own.
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
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
@davidgauke @davidgauke.bsky.social Recovering politician, writes columns, editor of The Case For The Centre Right.
Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social Head of Noether Group "Varieties of Egalitarianism" @Uni Konstanz | Interim prof @HU Berlin for Comparative Analysis of Political Systems | inequality, parties, policy change, welfare state, ideology, political text | https://voe-project.org
Martin Rosenbaum @mrosenbaum.bsky.social Freedom of information expert & consultant. Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College politics dept. Author, 'Freedom of Information: A practical guidebook', http://amzn.to/3L2tuKi. ExBBC political journalist & radio producer. https://rosenbaum.org.uk/
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
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
Tom McTague @tommctague.bsky.social Editor in Chief of the New Statesman
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social Professor of Politics. 
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
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
James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement.
https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
Keiran Pedley @keiranpedley.bsky.social Pollster at Ipsos. Genuine poll Boffin. Expect Spurs polling and politics!!
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social Prof Public Policy & Director, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath. Trustee at Foundations and HEPI. Chair, Living Wage Commission.
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
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 
Martha Gill @marthagill.bsky.social Observer columnist 
Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player. 
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social Director of the Hansard Society, working to make Parliament more effective.
🎧 Co-host of the Parliament Matters podcast | https://hansardsociety.start.page/
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Tim Shipman @shippersunbound.bsky.social Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social Borders | ontosec | migration | citizenship
Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com
Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com
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.
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge. Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Blog: www.publiclawforeveryone.com. Website: www.markelliott.org
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social Pen name of Andrew Scott.
Fake History, Fake Heroes and Notorious.
Represented by Pew Literary
Links:
https://linktr.ee/OttoEnglish
Claire Bolderson @clairebolderson.bsky.social Former BBC correspondent, presenter (Newshour, World Tonight) and documentary maker. Now teaching academics how to share their research with media, policy makers and public. https://www.engagingcommunications.org/
John Kampfner @johnkampfner.bsky.social Author, journalist
website: www.jkampfner.net
newsletter: https://johnkampfner.substack.com/
Berlin, London
Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social Programme Director at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk working on public services 
Andrew Phillips @andrewphillips.bsky.social Policy & Research Manager at the Standard Life Centre for the Future of Retirement. Previously a researcher at Demos and the Institute for Government. Views my own.
https://www.standardlife.co.uk/centre-for-the-future-of-retirement
Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social EX Editor, the Guardian/ prospect magazine. The New World. ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
Catherine Barnard @cbarnard.bsky.social Professor of EU law and Employment law, Trinity College Cambridge, senior fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Knows a little bit about EU and Brexit things. 
Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social Lib Dem Life Peer. Party President 2020-5. Author, "Polling UnPacked" / http://www.theweekinpolls.co.uk / https://libdemnewswire.substack.com / imprint + privacy http://markpack.org.uk/legal-privacy / he/him
Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social I teach politics at a university in the UK. I'm interested in electoral systems, public opinion, and the politics of non-majoritarian institutions like courts and regulators.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8932-9405
Marc Geddes @marcgeddes.uk Political scientist mostly based at the University of Edinburgh and sometimes found at the Institute for Parliamentary Research in Berlin.
Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social Features journalist. Book: 'Something: The Women Who Made the Beatles' - May 2027.
https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
Joni Lovenduski @jonilo.bsky.social Feminist, retired professor of political science, politics obsessed,cat lover, Bridge player, Italy, food.Quite annoyed about quite a few things.
@faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social 
Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social Chief Executive of Total Politics Group. Writer, broadcaster, media CEO. Publisher of PoliticsHome, The House magazine, Holyrood magazine, The Parliament magazine, Civil Service World, ConservativeHome and more. Columnist for the i paper. Never a dull day.
Tom Whipple @whippletom.bsky.social Science at The Times
My book, about the radio war: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787634132?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_NPXKFD6KQ3B2P603N1ZN
Fiona Millar @fionamillar.bsky.social Journalist, education campaigner, school governor, feminist, passionate open air swimmer. Sorry that sounds a bit worthy!! Also mother of comedian Grace Campbell, who really is a laugh 😊
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Journalist. Speaker. Writer. Commentator.
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Society. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture. The personal. The structural.
Editor in Chief, Byline Times.
hardeep@bylinetimes.com / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social ‘Notes on Now’ every month in Byline Times, Co-founder openDemocracy Led Charter 88 from 1988-2005. Iron Britannia; The Lure of Greatness; Taking Control! Etc Online articles in Authory.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Simon Fletcher @fletchersimon.bsky.social Former adviser to Labour leaders, former chief of staff to the Mayor of London. Director of winning Labour leadership campaigns. Socialist.
Political campaigns II writing and analysis II consultancy
https://linktr.ee/simonfletcher
Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social Guardian senior political correspondent. New book, Stress tested, out now: https://tinyurl.com/mhn82a7m
Email: peter.walker@theguardian.com Secure email if needed: peter.walker.guardian@protonmail.com
Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social I’m not always having a go at wrong’uns…sometimes I’m sleeping | Political Commentator & Co-Host of The Trawl Podcast https://linktr.ee/thetrawlpodcast | @TimesRadio | @jeremyvineon5
Eleanor Langford @eleanormia.bsky.social 📰 Political Reporter at The i Paper
📝 Author of the multi-award-winning 'Politics Unwrapped' newsletter
📧 Tips/coffees: eleanor.langford@theipaper.com
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
Dr Nigel Fletcher @nigelfletcher.bsky.social Wanderer in the fourth dimension. British political and constitutional historian. Co-founder, Centre for Opposition Studies.
Distracted by cats and camp classic telly. Will run for cake.
🖊️ 📖 🇬🇧 🏰 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈 📺 🍰🏃🏻♂️
www.nigelfletcher.org
Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org Shining a light on the UK's role in corruption at home and abroad
https://linktr.ee/endcorruptionuk
Caitlin Doherty @caitlindoherty.bsky.social Doing digital things at BBC News
Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum.
heather.stewart@theguardian.com
Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social Media Editor for @theguardian.com. Likes ≠ endorsements, obv. Story? 👇👇👇
Michael.savage@theguardian.com
Need a secure way to contact me? Signal username: word_builder.20
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 👍🏼
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social Writes twice-weekly On London Extra newsletter, available from https://davehillonlondon.substack.com/. Publishes and edits https://www.onlondon.co.uk/. Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/@DaveHillOnLondon/videos. Busy.
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
Subscribe for exclusive content in the Byline Times monthly print edition: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
Visit our website: bylinetimes.com
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
Subscribe on Substack: Arguably.uk
Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social Writer, editor, bereaved single Dad, Quaker, allotmenteer and very amateur musician.
Lover of strangers.
James Fitzgerald @jamesfitzjourno.bsky.social Senior UK Financial Services Reporter @POLITICO.eu
Australian journo in London, originally from Adelaide/Tarndanya.
- views & rants my own -
- jfitzgerald@politico.co.uk
Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, trade unionist and socialist
https://inews.co.uk/author/andrew-fisher
Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social I write the Guardian’s Politics Live blog 
Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now 
David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social Broadcaster, author, journalist, dad, grandpa, heroic Substacker to be found at davidaaronovitch.substack.com. Recovering tweeter
Henry Zeffman @hzeffman.bsky.social BBC Chief Political Correspondent
Instagram: @hzeffmanbbc
Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social Labour client journalist and member of the right-wing MSM, apparently. Also political editor of HuffPost UK.
Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I cover democracy, campaigning, and Britain's media.
Followers can reply to posts (ask to DM me). Open to news tips.
'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson.
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Currently on maternity leave
Patrick Maguire @patrickmaguire.bsky.social Chief political commentator, The Times
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net