John Lappin @johnlappin.bsky.social Journalist, financial, mostly I have opinions on many things.
Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social Director of the Electrification Alliance. Representing the major actors in delivering European energy to European homes and industry. 🇨🇦 🇮🇪
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Ed Pemberton @epemberton.bsky.social Senior Policy Researcher, Citizens Advice. Currently researching health inequalities and their relationship to work, housing and debt. Recovering political economist. Views my own.
Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social Iceland-obsessed Landscape Photographer. UK-based.
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HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
TrumpReposter @trumpreposter.bsky.social Donald J. Trump's unaltered word from Truth Social. Immediately, 24/7.
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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social Brit living in Toronto. Politics, books, jazz, Doctor Who and many more 
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I like human rights and French cuisine.
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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org Design, music, art + computation. Professor at fba.up.pt; also active at @cronicaelectronica.org, http://at-c.org and @xCoAx.org. Author of Art and Computation (V2_) and Artificial Aesthetics (U.Porto). carvalhais.org
Alex Barker @alexebarker.bsky.social World News Editor at Financial Times, ex Brussels bureau chief and media writer. Podcast: Hot Money. Sometimes dreams in Turkish. alex.barker@ft.com
Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social Day job: climate change, heat pumps, energy at Nesta
Other stuff: low-fi economics on growth, cities & economic geography, general UK policy, occasional basic charts
Bristol, he/him, lots of parenting / caring.
Personal account.
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
John C @badsocialism.bsky.social PGR at QMUL 2025-29 researching Political Identity,Decolonisation, "Caribbean-ness" and the World Crisis 1935-1960
Poetry in Motion, Like a Pathe Newsreel" -@tomblack.uk 🏳️🌈//🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇪🇹🇹
Will sometimes write things of consequence here:
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Georgia Banjo @georgiabanjo.bsky.social Writing mostly about health, innovation and people. Britain correspondent at The Economist.
Moyeen Islam @moyeen.bsky.social Rates and bikes. Wholly unable to deal with Thibaut Pinot’s retirement. “Gilt guru” and “ethereal bond vigilante” by day, elite level idiot with Bengali Dad energy at all other times. Baked goods and fried chicken enthusiast.
Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social Professor of Energy & Climate Policy at University of Oxford
Energy Programme Leader at ECI, University of Oxford
Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford
Senior Associate Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
Jamie Muir @jamiembrixton.bsky.social The world viewed from Brockwell Park in South London.
Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social Founder & Principal, Crosscurrent Capital. Queasy metropolitan liberal. “Economist” -
@t0nyyates. Starting something new. tomas.hirst[at]crosscurrentcapitallimited.com
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James Fransham @fransham.bsky.social Data journalist @ The Economist Newspaper.
Covering everything under the sun, but now with a British focus. 
@maxmoran.bsky.social @maxmoran.bsky.social Photography. Wildlife. Walking. Rewilding. Permaculture. Standing Stones. Wales. Occasional haiku. Absolutely no AI. That kind of thing, like that.
Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social Writing about the money behind Silicon Valley at IFR
Author of OPUS, published by Simon & Schuster
“Vividly told and excellently researched" - Financial Times
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.
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Columnist at The Guardian.
Philip Coggan @philipcoggan.bsky.social journalist and writer
Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social Historical dilettante 
Oxford Martin School @oxmartinschool.bsky.social The Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford is a centre of pioneering research that aims to find solutions to the world's most urgent challenges.
https://linktr.ee/oxmartinschool
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Max Cairnduff @maxcairnduff.bsky.social Repairer of Reputations.
Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
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
Rich @rich-bryant.uk token evil teammate
Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.net Peripatetic American in Europe. PhD candidate at Cambridge writing on empathy, democracy, and liberation. Experientia supra decreta.
Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social Pre-order TRADE WORLD! https://lnk.to/TradeWorldBook
Mike Ratcliffe @mike-rat.bsky.social Student and university administrator
https://moremeansbetter.wordpress.com
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Ben Moores @benmoores2.bsky.social Advisor to the Defence Secretary 
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.
Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social Ass-Prof of Public Policy at Warwick. Work mostly on wellbeing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Interested in *everything*. Run ePODstemology: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/episodes 
Bryce Tetraeder @brycetetraeder.bsky.social Global Tetrahedron CEO, chairman, media proprietor, entrepreneur, human trafficker, thought leader, and venture capitalist.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - New Yorker)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1035903857
POWER FAILURE (Future Governance Forum)
Last on Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002styf
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social Saarf-Londoner. Cat Dad. Assoc Prof at the Swedish Defence University. PhD from KCL. Associate, IWM Institute. Senior fellow at Global & National Security Institute, Uni of South Florida. ex-West Point fellow. FRHistS. Series editor @Hurst Publishers
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 ✍️
Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue Just a vibe, you know?
From the UK, jetzt in Deutschland.
Used to wrangle code, coders, and customers for a living. Now just for fun.
Interested in complex systems and how they fail us. Oh, and jokes.
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social Prof Cyber Security and Head of School Computer Science and Informatics at De Montfort University. Own views. He/him.
Formal methods (last ever books on Z or refinement). Cyber security. Privacy. Data politics. Not all hypes. DM:eerke.boiten@dmu.ac.uk.
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
Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social Journalist. Presenter of R4's #MoneyBox Live (Weds, 3pm). Also found on #WakeUpToMoney, #R4Today, BBC 5 Live, #GreenMoneyShow. Enthusiast. Humanist.
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social Policy & Strategy Analytics academic at Loughborough University; Member, Independent SAGE; Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Zoe Kleinman @zsk.bsky.social BBC Technology Editor 🤖
Matthew Parker @matthewparker70.bsky.social Historian and writer. www.matthewparker.co.uk. Fellow of Royal Historical Society. Lover of books, gardens, Japanese food. Lives in London with family and annoying dog. Only just got here
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
HelloCelloFitz @hellocellofitz.bsky.social All things cello from David Fitzgerald, cellist in internationally acclaimed French music trio, Lesboum.com
More info at hellocello.co.uk
Nicolas Veron @veron.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Bruegel and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy, University of Manchester. Science & innovation policy, regional economic growth, polymer physics.
www.softmachines.org
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Dan Corry @danrcorry.bsky.social Public policy and economics. Special adviser for last Labour government including HMT and No 10. Former boss NPC, a charity think tank and consultancy. Chair of Carers Trust charity. Author of 'Tales of the Unelected' - https://www.dancorrywriter.com/
Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social Emergence, Networks & Complexity | Collective Behavior(s) from Cells to Societies 🧬🦠🧠🌇
Prof. @UniPadova, Galileo's University | Lab: @comunelab.bsky.social | Web: https://linktr.ee/manlius
Thoughts at manlius.substack.com
Kinship Works @kinship.works We help organisations to be more human. Kinship Works is a network supporting more human ways of improving our lives together.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Growth and Reform Network @growthandreform.bsky.social A network of leaders & practitioners across UK government, bridging the gap between national policy & local delivery. Partners
@MetroDynamics @FutureGovForum
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social South Asia bureau chief at The Economist
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.
James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social New name, same pastry face, emigrating from The Bad Place
Pierre Landry Kabore enjoyer 🇧🇫🏴🇱🇻
Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
Also made the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie.
Paul W. @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social Speaking in songs 🎵 and talking books 📚
🎧 vibe25radio.com presenter
Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science person, more... I run http://bennett.ox.ac.uk making tools+papers from data http://OpenSAFELY.org http://OpenPrescribing.net
Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com A markets and finance blog that's outside the FT paywall. All we ask is that you register to read: https://www.ft.com/content/b6cdf8d1-7435-460b-9a68-df456a143ce5
Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social Economics Editor, The Observer
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social Head of data journalism at The Economist
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor at The Spectator
Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social International crouton etc.
Gareth Potter @garethpotter.com I mostly write code. Occasional photographer.
void * const @voidstarconst.bsky.social Controlling the means of production of capital returns (London, UK)
Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social Heterodox economist working on race in the history of economic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him.
Formerly Seattle, now retired and living in London.
https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home
Photo by Stephanie Seguino
Mark Kermode @kermodemovie.bsky.social LAST aisle seat on the left.
Emphasis on the FIRST syllable.
Ellen E Jones @ellenejones.bsky.social Journalist and broadcaster (Guardian, Observer, Empire, Esquire, Elle etc) Author of 'SCREEN DEEP: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world'(Faber, 2024, linktr.ee/Screen_Deep); Co-host of SCREENSHOT on BBC Radio 4 and wherever you get your pods
Ole Peters @opeters.bsky.social Physicist, Ergodicity Economics
http://ergodicityeconomics.com
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
Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social Associate Professor in Economics, IIPP-UCL. 🇵🇸 💔
Book: Labour, Value and Capitalism: A study of the Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx, 2024. Editora Dialética
Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/91802-carolina-alves/about
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info 🚇 Was Strategy & Innovation Director Transport for London
🖊️ Freewheeling Blog / Podcast www.freewheeling.info/blog
SUBSTACK: Freewheeling Bitesize: https://freewheelingbitesize.substack.com/ & History of Europe in 75 Railway Journeys http://bit.ly/3EQNOPA
Ben Davis @bendavisauthor.bsky.social Author of the Carnegie nominated THE SOUP MOVEMENT and the LENNY LEMMON series. And other stuff. Remember to breathe.
https://linktr.ee/bendavisauthor
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
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.- J jpmort.bsky.social @jpmort.bsky.social Reinventing work to be human. Transforming using systems thinking.