EggPod Express @eggpod.bsky.social Once a Beatles podcast. Now a jaunty stroll through 1960s music magazines with a pot pourri of delicious guests. (But probably mostly a Beatles podcast to be honest)
Hosted by @chrisshaweditor.bsky.social
iamtheeggpod.com
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Mark Lewisohn @marklewisohn.bsky.social Writer of the Beatles biographical history trilogy All These Years. The first volume, Tune In, is out. Volume 2 is taking an age but still progressing steadily. www.marklewisohn.net
Sallystardust1 @sallystardust1.bsky.social All the music,books, art,science, nature, gardening,shapes and feelings created in the Welsh mountains MD ant
Clare Wadd @clarewadd.bsky.social Formerly half of Sarah Records. Currently Ramblers / walking London volunteer, Parkrunner, mediocre swimmer, amateur paddleboarder, reader and very occasional writer. Grew up in Yorkshire, live in London, still miss Bristol & often found at the seaside.
wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social DJ, producer and professor of musical information.
Contact: wrongtom@gmail.com
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Swansea West
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social Music of substance.
mojo4music.com
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
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
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
Paul Stokes @stokesie.bsky.social Filling in time between serious news items…
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
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 
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
Esther Addley @estheraddley.bsky.social Guardian senior news writer, Derry Girl. Likes old stones and potatoes. 
Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social Policy Editor at the Guardian. Previously with the FT in London, Delhi, Washington.
Henry Zeffman @hzeffman.bsky.social BBC Chief Political Correspondent
Instagram: @hzeffmanbbc
Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social I write the Guardian’s Politics Live blog 
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
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
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
Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social North of England editor, the Guardian. Dad. Paul Foot Award winner 2025.
Beatles Books Podcast @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social A podcast chatting to the very best Beatle authors and writers - available on all Podcast Apps. Also posting Daily Beatle Content! https://podtail.com/en/podcast/beatles-books/ https://buymeacoffee.com/beatlesbooks
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 
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
Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum.
heather.stewart@theguardian.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/
Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social Guardian correspondent covering international trade from European perspective, also post Brexit affairs and Ireland Former Brussels corr, Brexit corr + former media corr. Find me at lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com
Philip Oltermann @philipoltermann.bsky.social Culture editor for Europe, The Guardian. Ex-Berlin bureau chief. My book The Stasi Poetry Circle (Faber & Faber) is out now
Jane Martinson @janemartinson.bsky.social Writes, speaks, teaches for a living. Journalist, City U Prof Financial Journalism, Author - You May Never See Us Again. The Barclay Dynasty: A story of survival, secrecy and succession out 19 October: https://amzn.eu/d/669hZna
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social Author, archivist, professor
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
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
Dave Haslam @davehaslam.bsky.social Hacienda DJ, journalist (Guardian, LRB, etc), writer (recent books about Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, Picasso). “An exceptional writer” - Olivia Laing.
Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️
Host of the FT’s award-winning ‘Political Fix’ podcast🎙️Author 📚
Keith Cameron @keithcameron2.bsky.social Contributing Editor, MOJO magazine.
168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers out now. keithcameron.co.uk
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
Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker.bsky.social 
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
Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
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
Robin Turner @robinturner.bsky.social Wrote books about The Chemical Brothers and Heavenly Recordings, does PR for some of rock and / or roll's finest, part owns The Social. Now writing weekly newsletters about life with and after a brain tumour: https://acloudablossom.substack.com/
Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social Small Language Model. Discontent Provider. Group Editor of @PodmastersUK, home of Oh God What Now?, Bunker and more podcasts. Inventor of landfill indie. Social media binfluencer.
Andy Dawson @andydawson.bsky.social Participant in @AthleticoMince.bsky.social @TFTimeMachine.bsky.social and @unseriousdarts.bsky.social. My life is well within its usual frame.
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Tracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, writer
Iain McDermott @poprambler.bsky.social Back to NOW! podcast, celebrating the variously compiled world of pop. Popmaster alumni. On the TV and radio from time to time.
https://linktr.ee/poprambler
John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social Editor, MOJO. Ex-Editor, Uncut/Ex-Deputy Editor, NME. Jams etc. http://mojo4music.com
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
Help support independent cultural journalism & get perks by becoming a tQ subscriber here: https://steadyhq.com/thequietus
Liz Buckley @lizbuckley.bsky.social Head of A&R at Ace Records. Resident music guest for Standard Issue podcast. Also a cat owner, so it’s mainly records and cats here, to be fair.
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/
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
Johnny Kalifornia @jkalifornia.bsky.social Producer #SoundsOfThe80s for @BBCRadio2 | dogs and music, mainly, let’s be honest 🐶🎶
Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social Biographer of The Cure & Manic Street Preachers
Music critic, ex-Independent/Melody Maker.
Podcaster with Chart Music
History Of Pop lecturer.
DJ at Spellbound
He/Him.
Welsh.
https://linktr.ee/simonprice
Needle Mythology @needlemythology.bsky.social It's a label which exists to give albums the release they deserve. Some classic, some brand new. It's also an occasional podcast about great records.
Nine Eight Books @nineeightbooks.bsky.social Pop / Culture
An imprint of Bonnier Books UK
Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social Writer, sub-editor, pizza-maker. The Guardian, MOJO, Loose Lips Sink Ships. Books. The good shit. steviechick.com
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social
A safe, fun space for pop enthusiasts to celebrate anniversaries of fucking records.
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…
Pete Fowler @petefowlerart.bsky.social Painter, illustrator, printmaker & sculptor. Open every other Tuesday on Soho Radio.
Sign up to my patreon, visit my shop, listen to radio shows and more down there.
https://linktr.ee/petefowler
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social Writer. Mr Agreeable in a previous life. Author of, among others, Fear Of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen (Zero) and Different Times: A History Of British Comedy (Faber)
Lauren Laverne @laurenlaverne.bsky.social Broadcaster. Slow eater, fast reader.
John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social Co-founder/Editor of theQuietus
Co-founder of Acid Horse
Writer/Editor
Anti-Fascist
Listen to Nurse With Wound
https://linktr.ee/jahduran
Official Charts @officialcharts.bsky.social The UK's only Official Charts, as heard on BBC Radio 1 every Friday at 4pm 🎶 | Newsletter: https://t.co/JpOhwPxv8v 📨
Rob Fitzpatrick @robfitzp.bsky.social I make podcasts - States of Independence is out now! - and music as Ronnie & Clyde. I write things about music and podcasts. A varied diet then. Say hello - soipodBB@gmail.com
Nick Heyward @nickheyward.com Singer songwriter musician. Haircut 100. Thankful
Popjustice @popjustice.bsky.social Where the skies are blue, this is what we’re gonna do.
Sharon Hanley @sharonhanley.bsky.social PR Head @bbcradio2 @bbc6music Pop Music TV. Was @spicegirls @bbceastenders PR. The 80s. POP POP POP MUSIC Insta- sharonlhanley @prweekuknews Power Book 2019-2024
Frankie Goes To Hollywood @fgthofficial.bsky.social Blue Sky account for 80s pop sensation Frankie Goes To Hollywood
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
Will Hodgkinson @willhodgkinson.bsky.social Author of Street Level Superstar, A Year With Lawrence; In Perfect Harmony, Singalong Pop In 70s Britain; The House Is Full Of Yogis; Guitar Man; Song Man; The Ballad of Britain
Chief rock and pop critic, The Times
Lauren Kreisler @laurenkreisler.bsky.social Director of Brand @ Official Charts, fan of a mid-tempo banger, proud northerner.
Rob Gillett @robgillett.bsky.social Content Director @thisisqueerly.com. Queerly Radio. LGBTQ+ books. Social for film & TV. GALECA member. Clever girl 🦖
Simon Raymonde @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social Musician with a label. Cocteau Twins/Lost Horizons. Producer, mixer. Some non-Cocteaus gig highlights? Playing bass with Midlake, on “The Rat” live with The Walkmen, and playing guitar on tour with Mercury Rev ❤️ Memoir “In One Ear” on Nine Eight Books now.
Grace Dent @gracedent.bsky.social * BBC Masterchef UK 🇬🇧
*Comfort Eating- Ep 1 Russell T Davies
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/comfort-eating-with-grace-dent/id1571446706?i=1000525534334
* Restaurant Critic for The Guardian 🇬🇧
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/gracedent
Pet Shop Boys @handle.invalid Since 1984. "Dreamworld" concert film out now on Blu-ray & 2CD. “Volume” & “Annually“ books available now. “It’s a sin” dance show dates announced.
https://linktr.ee/petshopboys
Mike Atkinson @whichdecadetops.bsky.social Podcasts: Which Decade Is Tops For Pops?, Record Mirror Disco Charts
Books: James Hamilton's Disco Pages, 1975-1982 / Dance Pages 1983-1989
https://linktr.ee/mikeatkinson1
Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social Writer / DJ / silly sausage
crisps / hullabaloo and custard / pop music is important
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer out now
Bob Stanley @rockingbob.bsky.social The Bee Gees: Children of the World. Penderyn Prize winner 2023. Let's Do It. Yeah Yeah Yeah. Excavate. Ace Records. Saint Etienne. Non league, soft rock. Also in the Record Room at patreon.com/bobstanley
James Brown @jamesjamesbrown.bsky.social Unlikely to complete course. Likes reading, travel, football, water.
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
Subscribe: http://subsonline.co.uk
Julien Laurens @julienlaurens.bsky.social Frenchman in England talking all things football on ESPN, TNT Sport, RMC Sport, the Totally Football Show and 5Live http://instagram.com/julien_laurens
Football365 @football365.bsky.social Football analysis with attitude since 1997.
Charlotte Harpur @charpur.bsky.social Football writer @theathleticfc.bsky.social
Commentator @bbc5live.bsky.social
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James Pearce @jamespearcelfc.bsky.social Liverpool FC reporter for The Athletic.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/james-pearce/ http://Facebook.com/JamesPearceLFC Instagram: jamespearcelfc
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.
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
The Wake @letthemeatwake.bsky.social A new group from the past. Let them eat Wake!