The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writer about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
About lore and culture at The Busy Town.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
(Account sometimes deactivated when not in use.)
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
Richard Partington @rjpartington.bsky.social Guardian Senior Economics Correspondent
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
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
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social Them: You're the father of the xbox!
Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent.
theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
Bit Famous @bitfamous.bsky.social Penny Haslam and Steve Blears. We are Bit Famous, driving growth and engagement through confident communication. Your partner in empowering people to be more visible, influential and impactful.
https://bitfamous.co.uk/
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. Co-host of the Starship Alexandria podcast. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: yimbypod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
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.
Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social Writerer of things, Leg Spinner, Tool. "He's a relentless gag machine" - Al Murray.
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
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
Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
@mcknut.bsky.social @mcknut.bsky.social 
Denica Yotova @denica.bsky.social denicayotova.com
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Etobias-musiced @etobias-musiced.bsky.social Assoc Prof Music Learning & Teaching @ ASU Innovation & Transformation in #MusicEd https://evantobias.net/
I do not consent to anyone or any entity using the content I share to train AI.
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Youichi Hophop @youichihophop.bsky.social HPC boffin, motorsport fan. Cambridge UK.
Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com systems | cybernetics | complexity
public | service | transformation
business evolutionary | avid learner
#wordrotator #poastrationalist
https://chosen-path.org
connect at antlerboy.com
redquadrant.com
publicservicetransformation.org
skeeting personally
Simon Ritchie @weirdyweirdtwit.bsky.social Radio Audio Music Humour Books Politics Empathy Despair MD ANT 🏅
Rob May @robmay70.bsky.social ⭕ Cybersecurity Ambassador | 💡#AI Thought Leader | ⚙ Founder @ramsac_ltd | 🎙️ TEDx & Keynote Speaker | 📚 Author | 🚀 Insights on #HarnessingAI & #Infosec
groovegenerator @groovegenerator.co.uk I teach people how to shizzle on teh internetz. Author. MMU Lecturer. Coach. Digital Marketing. E-Commerce. AI. Digital Literacy. AI Literacy. DigiBiz https://amzn.to/3WZe1SG
Rights of Women @rightsofwomen.bsky.social Women’s legal rights charity supporting women facing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in England & Wales since 1975. Campaigns for equality, justice & safety in the law for all women.
rightsofwomen.org.uk
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social #SaveOurChildrensRights Parent-led special educational needs and disability #SEND website. UK-based, strategic advocacy, resources, and information to help improve the lives of children & young people with disabilities and their families. Volunteers.
John Dickens @johndickenssw.bsky.social Former Schools Week editor
Samantha Booth @samanthajbooth.bsky.social Deputy editor at Schools Week • mainly investigating SEND and inclusion • Sam is fine • Press Awards specialist journalist of 2025 • @schoolsweek.bsky.social
Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social Education journo (Head of News at Tes Magazine)/data nerd/school governor/mum of girls
https://www.tes.com/magazine/news
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Freddie Whittaker @fcdwhittaker.bsky.social Editor of national education newspaper Schools Week
www.schoolsweek.co.uk
Daniel Hewitt @danielhewittitv.bsky.social Investigations Editor: ITV News. Author: Left to Rot (2026) out now.
Presenter: The Trapped (podcast). Make documentaries, including Surviving Squalor (ITV). West Brom fan.
Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social Health Editor at The Sunday Times. Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety
📰 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/shaun-lintern
📝 DMs open
📨 shaun.lintern@sundaytimes.co.uk
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social Deputy ed at Inside Housing
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
Tom Wall @tomwall.bsky.social Journalist. News and investigations for the Guardian, BBC and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
✉️ t.wall@outlook.com
@martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social Local authority foster carer, journalist. Sharing news and views about the care system, children and young people. Subscribe to my weekly bulletin via weekincare@gmail.com
Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social In-depth reporting on issues affecting disabled people in the UK since 2009. www.disabilitynewsservice.com
Isabella McRae @isabellamcrae.bsky.social Senior reporter at the Big Issue | Get in touch with me at isabella.mcrae@bigissue.com
ryan john butcher @ryanjohnbutcher.bsky.social journalist | oat dad | 🏳️🌈 | he/him
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
Liam Geraghty @lgeraghty23.bsky.social @bigissue.com journalist. Writes about housing, homelessness and a bit of everything else. Story tips to liam[dot]geraghty[at]bigissue[dot]com. Personal posts will be about video games.
Tristan Kirk @kirkkorner.bsky.social Courts Editor for the Press Association
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
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.
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://peteapps.substack.com
Jules Birch @julesbirch.bsky.social Journalist interested in anything connected with housing. Which means just about everything. Doctorate in housing since the financial crisis 
Will Coldwell @willcoldwell.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Words in The Guardian, GQ, FT Mag, Wired, 1843 Magazine, Prospect, The Observer and beyond
Get in touch: w.coldwell@gmail.com
willcoldwell.com
Rosa Furneaux @rosafurneaux.bsky.social Investigative Reporter
Shane Chowen @ukshane.bsky.social Editor at FE Week - reporting on further education, skills and apprenticeships. Story tips: shane.chowen@feweek.co.uk
David Shipley @shipleywrites.bsky.social Did corporate finance, produced a film, committed a fraud. Served my time. Horrified by the prison system. I write and talk and try to change it.
Words in Inside Time, The Spectator, the i, amongst others.
david@david-shipley.com
Danny Shaw @dannyshaw.bsky.social Journalist, specialising in policing, crime, justice, prisons, security & immigration. Ex-BBC home affairs correspondent & former adviser to Yvette Cooper MP. These are all my views! 
Diane Taylor @diane-writer10.bsky.social journalist @Guardian
Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social Writer, talker, author of ANYWHERE BUT HERE: Stories of the Search for Belonging in Modern Britain.
https://linktr.ee/nicolakellywrites
Joel Budd @joelbudd.bsky.social Journalist at the Economist, writing about life in Britain. Author of "Underdogs".
Georgia Banjo @georgiabanjo.bsky.social Writing mostly about health, innovation and people. Britain correspondent at The Economist.
Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social South Asia bureau chief at The Economist
Greg Barradale @gregbarradale.bsky.social Senior reporter for @bigissue.com - covering untold stories from housing and asylum to drugs and politics
Mithran Samuel @mithransamuel.bsky.social Editor, communitycare.co.uk (social work/social care news and stuff)
Paul Morgan-Bentley @paulmorganbentley.bsky.social Head of Investigations at The Times in London and author. Occasional undercover reporter. 2X winner of the Cudlipp Award for investigative reporting. Dad (with husband, Robin) to two very jumpy boys (one poodle, one human) 🏳️🌈
AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering the health service - southeast & ambulance services for HSJ. Not fond of authority whoever's in power. DMs open Alison.Moore@hsj.co.uk Also trustee, Cyclox, so may tweet about Oxford and cycling.
Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com Editor, Health @theguardian.com
Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social Journalist mostly covering inequalities for Guardian, Observer, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC & more.
Author of Make Bosses Pay. 2x Orwell Prize nominee. She/her.
📧 evelivingstonjournalist@gmail.com
🔗 everebeccalivingston.com
📸 eve__rebecca
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social 📻 Broadcaster
🖊️ Reporter at PoliticsHome
🎭 Actor, represented by RED Talent Mgmt
✍️ Send me stories🕵🏽 #BCFC 💙 ASOIAF & LOTR enthusiast ✨
Singer-songwriter 🎵 Views my own 💭
James Tapper @jamestapper.bsky.social Journalist at The Observer / observer.co.uk
I write about science, health and other things.
Shanti Das @shantidas.bsky.social Senior investigations reporter, The Times. Previously: The Observer / The Sunday Times. Orwell prize for exposing Britain’s social evils 2023
📝 shanti.das@thetimes.co.uk / @shantidas.01 (Signal)
Jon Ungoed-Thomas @jonungoedthomas.bsky.social Reporter. The Observer
Jon.Ungoed-Thomas@Observer.co.uk
https://observer.co.uk/contributor/jon-ungoed-thomas
Matt Lee @mattleejourno.bsky.social Award-winning journalist for EssexLive | Asker of "funny questions" - press officer | Views my own | Got a story? DMs open
Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social Journalist at @tbij.bsky.social. I cover inequality, precarious work and migration.
You can contact me on emilianomellino@tbij.com
https://linktr.ee/emiliano.mellino
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/profile/emilianomellino
Saba Salman @sabasalman.com Journalist|editor|author
📚NEW BOOK Double Discrimination 2026
📚Made Possible 2020
👩🏽💻 https://sabasalman.com
✍🏽Private Eye|Guardian|Byline Times|Ed. Community Living
💜Chair @sibs.org.uk|Ambassador @ndtihello.bsky.social
🏛️FRSA @thersaorg.bsky.social
Sophia Alexandra Hall @sophiassocials.bsky.social Senior journalist at BBC News. Author of the Media Toolkit for Journalists and Care Experienced People. TEDx speaker: What Makes a Life Newsworthy?
Lottie Elton @lottieelton.bsky.social Big Issue reporter
✉️ lottie.elton@bigissue.com
Rob Hastings @robhastings.bsky.social 📰 Special Projects Editor at @TheiPaper.com, based in London
✍️ I write long reads, investigations and interviews
🏆 Legal Reporting Award winner
⚽️ Spurs fan
💻 https://robhastings.co.uk
💻 https://inews.co.uk/author/rob-hastings
The Lead @theleaduk.bsky.social The Lead is a lean, mean mag on politics, culture and everything in between.
Lauren Crosby Medlicott @laurenmedlicott.bsky.social Freelance Journalist 
Sam Gelder @samgelder.bsky.social Investigations editor at Liberty Investigates. Previously of Dialogue Earth, openDemocracy, Big Issue, HuffPost, Hackney Gazette. London via Wolverhampton
Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social FactCheck and Data News Editor at Channel 4 News. I cover UK and US politics, economics, the NHS, crime and justice, the environment, immigration, Israel Gaza, Ukraine Russia, and misinformation.
Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
Ros Wynne-Jones @roswynnejones.bsky.social Writer of Daily Mirror social justice column #RealBritain + special projects #Yr9No10 #PeopleMove #BritainTalks #WiganPierProject. Books include 'The Journey' with Abdul Musa Adam. Novellas, bread & border terrier enthusiast. @realbritainros over there. 
James Riding @jamesriding.bsky.social Living Markets Editor at Inside Housing | Book reviews in The Times | Press Awards 30 Under 30 2024 | james.riding@oceanmedia.co.uk
Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social Dad of two. Founder/writer of the website Education Uncovered. Investigating and reporting on education policy since 1997. Please support my work via a subscription to educationuncovered.co.uk Views personal.
Anna Fazackerley @annafazack.bsky.social Education journalist, write for The Observer & The Guardian, keen on walking, wine, kindness, the aptly used expletive. Totally over misogyny and hoping this place is better. 
Ellen Peirson-Hagger @ellencph.bsky.social Deputy books and arts editor, the Observer
ellencph.co.uk
Jane Haynes @janerockhouse.bsky.social Journalist, Birmingham. Politics, social affairs, campaigns. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/authors/jane-haynes/ Also Substack https://insidebirmingham.substack.com/ 07471025568 jane.haynes@reachplc.com
Louise Tickle @louisetickle.bsky.social Loves puffins. Dreams of Skomer. Writing novel 2. First slowly. Then faster.
Hannah Summers @hansummers.bsky.social Investigative journalist/ family courts for @tbij.bsky.social |Best specialist journalist 2023 - Freelance Journalism Awards |Media Freedom Awards winner 2025
Kirsty Weakley @kirstyweakley.bsky.social Journalist for Local Government Chronicle
John Roberts @johngroberts.bsky.social SEND and inclusion editor at Tes. Dad of 2. SEND parent. john.roberts@tes.com
Jasmine Norden @jasminenorden.bsky.social Senior writer at Tes. Get in touch at jasmine.norden@tes.com
Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social News reporter at Tes. Covering Ofsted, curriculum, teacher training, AI and more.
✍🏻 The Times, Big Issue, Metro
(Pronounced like the Welsh singer, not the colour)
https://www.tes.com/magazine/author/cerys-turner
Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.
I conduct investigative journalism and help people better understand Wales/Cymru.
You sign up to my newsletter here: willhaywardwales.substack.com
Columnist at The Guardian.
Michael Goodier @michaelgoodier.bsky.social Journalist on the Guardian Data Projects team
London and Brighton
Ignore my silly posts