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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"
Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.
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Eliot A. Cohen @eliotacohen.bsky.social Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former Counselor of the Department of State, writer at the Atlantic. New book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. (Basic Books). Book in progress: The Strategist's Catechism.
Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social Financial Opinion Editor at the FT. I have views. A spotter of things in markets, companies, world affairs. Also interested in food and climbing. 
Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social Financial Times columnist and writer.
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Chief political commentator and executive
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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social Global Editor, Reuters Breakingviews. Usual disclaimers apply. My free weekly newsletter: https://www.reuters.com/newsletters/the-week-in-breakingviews/
Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social Do investigations for the FT, into dubious accounting and dodgy characters mainly. Wrote a book called Money Men about a spectacular fraud
Janka Oertel @jankaoertel.bsky.social ECFR Asia Director. Personal views only. 
Tobias Gehrke @tobiasgehrke.bsky.social Geoeconomics and economic security at European Council on Foreign Relations | PhD
Jana Puglierin @jpuglierin.bsky.social Foreign policy nerd, especially interested in European security & transatlantic relations. Head of @ecfrberlin.bsky.social. FirstGen. Author of „Wer verteidigt Europa“ published with Rowohlt in January 2026. DB Ruhebereich Ultra and deltidsvärmlänning.
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Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social Europe observer.
Brussels correspondent/columnist for NRC, Foreign Policy, De Standaard, EUobserver. www.carolinedegruyter.eu
Book: with peace no longer a given, how will Europeans - children of fortune - deal with war and violence?
Georgina Wright (on leave) @georginaewright.bsky.social Britain, France & Brussels thinking at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Philippe Marlière @phmarliere.bsky.social Professor of French and European Politics at University College London (UK) |
I am writing a book on the mainstreaming of the far right in France |
Sociology of football | Films and plays |
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book. 
Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social Prof of Totalitarian Studies @ Pilecki Institute, Warsaw/Fellow @ Centre for International and Defence Policy, Ontario | FrHistS | Author of "Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth” - get it @ http://linktr.ee/igarner | 🇨🇦
Tony Connelly @tconnellyrte.bsky.social Europe Editor RTE, Ireland’s public broadcaster
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Zsuzsanna Vegh @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social Political analyst | Hungary | Radical right + intl affairs & democracy | Working with GMF, ECFR | Views are my own
Constanze Stelzenmüller @constelz.bsky.social Director CUSE, Germany explainer etc. @ Brookings; FT contributing columnist; Wizards Fan (I know). When the going gets tough, the tough go blonde. Pic: Marc Darchinger. Views my own, people.
Ros Atkins @rosatkins.bsky.social BBC News Analysis Editor, The Media Show, 'The Art of Explanation', 'Communicating...' podcast, squash enthusiast, DJ. Agent:
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social Opticore CFO / Energy things with ANU
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Joshua Eisenman / 马佳士 @joshuaeisenman.bsky.social Professor of Politics @NotreDame.bsky.social; Senior China Fellow @AFPC Au: #ChinasRelationsWithAfrica & Red China’s Green Revolution @cup.columbia.edu; 中国与非洲 @CUHKPress 练咏春 #lgm
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John Paul Rathbone @jprathbone.bsky.social FT Turkey bureau chief
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; President, American Society of International Law; Executive Editor at Just Security; former Special Counsel at U.S. Department of Defense. Website: oonahathaway.com.
Rosa Balfour @rosabalfour.bsky.social Director of Carnegie Europe, interested in Europe in the World.
Oxbridge Labeller @posho.zone Does what it says on the tin, labels people (mostly UK media/politics) who went to Oxford or Cambridge. Also Sandhurst. You might also enjoy @daddys.cash and @parents.blue
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com Brussels Bureau Chief, Financial Times.
Past lives in Moscow, Warsaw, London, Delhi and Mumbai.
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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social Political editor of The Observer. Email: Rachel.sylvester@observer.co.uk
Douglas Wong @douglaswong.bsky.social Asia Watcher. Bloomberg editor. Culturally incoherent citizen of everywhere. Holder of personal opinions
Evan A. Laksmana @elaksmana.bsky.social Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Southeast Asian Security and Defence • Editor, Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment • International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
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David Sheppard @oilsheppard.bsky.social Financial Times Acting Whitehall Editor. Former FT Energy Editor, but still dabbles in what makes the world go round. Ex-Reuters.
Luke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Journalist @Guardian, #1 New York Times best-selling author, foreign correspondent. Latest book: "Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival", shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and Peterson Literary Prize. Agent: Susanna Lea
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Haid Haid @haidhaid22.bsky.social Senior Fellow: Arab Reform Intiative, Chatham House, and ME Council on Global Affairs. | PhD from @warstudies | a Syrian who writes about Syria among other things. RT ≠ endorsements.
Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيّم @emile-hokayem.bsky.social Geopolitics and Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Aaron Connelly @connellyal.bsky.social Asia diplomatic editor and senior Asia correspondent at the Economist. Former think tanker. Author, with Shona Loong, of New Answers to Old Questions, on Myanmar.
Shawn Donnan @sdonnan.bsky.social Senior Writer for Economics, Bloomberg News. Ex FT. Aussie. Red Sox nation. Opinions mine alone. Reposts not endorsements. sdonnan@bloomberg.net
Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-home
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
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.
Katie Murphy @manymanyplies.bsky.social Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Out in summer 2027: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
Tasmanian Inquirer @tasinquirer.bsky.social Independent open-access reader-funded journalism about Lutruwita/Tasmania.
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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/
Giorgos Katsambekis @gkatsambekis.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics | Research on populism, democracy, authoritarianism, radical left politics, social movements | Opinions my own
Pepper Culpepper @pculpepper.bsky.social Professor of Government & Public Policy, Oxford; Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How It Could Save Democracy (on FT's What to Read in 2026; https://linktr.ee/billionairebacklash); www.pepperculpepper.net
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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social Professor of Politics, Research Community Lead (School of Social Sciences) @UniOfSurrey. #populism, #EuropeanPolitics, #partyorganisation. Posts=my views. 
Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
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Melissa S. Williams @melissa1008.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social Writer, journalist, filmmaker, professor. Pro-democracy advocate: Not capitulating. Author of Lee Harvey Oswald book, The Gunman & His Mother. Writing/publishing America, America on politics and society: America.substack.com
spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social Interests in ML and social aspects of tech.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social 👉🏽 https://linktr.ee/ronnisalt
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Kingsley Edney @kingsleyedney.bsky.social Associate Professor in International Relations of China, University of Leeds. Propaganda, ideology, media, culture, public opinion. Editor, British Journal of Politics and International Relations https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/76/dr-kingsley-edney
Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Carnegie China. For speaking engagements, please write to chinfinpettis@yahoo.com
Nathan Attrill @nathanattrill.bsky.social Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute | Editor of ASPI’s ‘State of the Strait’ - https://stateofthestrait.substack.com
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Evan Hill @evanhill.bsky.social Washington Post investigations reporter
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Executive Council, Washington-Baltimore News Guild
ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social Online magazine from Asia Society
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Anna Della Subin @annadella.bsky.social Author of ACCIDENTAL GODS: ON MEN UNWITTINGLY TURNED DIVINE (Metropolitan/ Granta). Essays in the LRB, NYRB, TLS, The Nation & elsewhere. Senior editor at Bidoun.
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Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social Writer. Historian. Books:
The Siege of Loyalty House
God’s Traitors
Henry VIII’s Last Victim
Reviews for the Times and LRB
jessiechilds.co.uk
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Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
Jon Parry @jonparryhis.bsky.social Retired university History teacher. Modern British politics. Short history of British Liberalism published by Agenda April 2025. Occasional LRB reviewer. Part-time resident and unofficial chronicler of Sark.
Alice Hunt @alicehunt.bsky.social Professor at the University of Southampton. Author of Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade (Faber, 2024). Co-I on 'The Visible Crown: Elizabeth II and the Caribbean'. Represented by Felicity Bryan Associates. Reviews for the LRB and The Times.
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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
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erin maglaque @erinmaglaque.bsky.social historian at durham / writer and critic, mostly for the lrb and nyrb. i’m writing a history of the female body, out in june!
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Rupert Beale @bealelab.bsky.social Group Leader, Cell Biology of Infection Lab @thecrick; Nephrologist @Royal Free Hospital. Own views etc. 
Jean McNicol @jeanmcnicol.bsky.social Co-editor of the London Review of Books
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 ...
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Malcolm Gaskill @malcolmgaskill.bsky.social Historian of witches and other things, mostly war and memory. Literary agent @NatFairweather at @rcwlitagency. Film agent: Rebecca Watson @VH_Associates.
MG Zimeta @mgzimeta.bsky.social Ethio-Brit literary journalist | Geopolitics & society | Former refugee | Recovering philosopher | website mgzimeta.com | For tech policy I'm @TechMilly.bsky.social | I can't view my DMs here because I haven't verified that I'm not a child.
Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social Philosopher of gender, race, borders, science | Essays in LRB, Guardian, Independent | Author of Arguing for a Better World https://tinyurl.com/2mn3zw8k
Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social editing @lrb (again), after years as Guardian non-fic editor. Writing book for Penguin/Norton on sandals, sunbaths, muesli, 'bearded fruit-juice drinkers' etc. Campaigner for Martha's Rule in NHS.
Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social Expurgated, accelerated, improved and reduced | mainly on the Northern Line
DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social Lawyer, historian, disease-ridden leftist. Books include The Story of Jenny Greenteeth, Revolutionary Forgiveness and The Anti-Fascist Novel in Britain 1923–2023. Write for LRB, Guardian, rs21.
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