Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Chief political commentator and executive
editor, Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/robert-shrimsley
https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/robert-shrimsley/
Evan Davis @evanhd.bsky.social The bloke who presents the BBC Radio 4 PM programme as well as the Bottom Line. And Dragons Den on BBC1. I try to be reasonable, but it is sometimes a struggle.
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
Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com Weekend News Editor, the Financial Times @financialtimes.com.
I did write the headline.
Sheffield Events @sheff.events What's on in Sheffield: gigs, markets, theatre, festivals, family days and the odd unicycle meetup. Community-run listings, a proper map, free to add your event. https://sheff.events
Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net Retired professor of mathematics and computer science, casino consultant, author of 4 books: 3 on casino games & 1 poetry book. Now I volunteer, walk a lot & feed local critters.
Climate blog: climatecasino.net
Casino blog: advancedadvantageplay.com
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
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
The Star, Sheffield @thestar.co.uk Trusted journalism in the great city of Sheffield since 1887 - now on BlueSky in 2025!
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jerry simcock @jerrysimcock.bsky.social Painting , writing, gardening, nature loving, wilding, zen. East Lothian, Scotland. #MDANT
Novel, Giselle and Mr Memphis available from www.vagabondvoices.co.uk
www.jerrysimcock.com for art, writing etc
Persuasion UK @persuasionuk.bsky.social Researching what is shaping UK public opinion on the issues that define our politics @ persuasionuk.org.
Director: @steveakehurst.bsky.social
Anthony ♾️🌏💡❤️🏳️🌈 @anthonymagee.com Neurodivergent AuDHD ♾️ (he/him, “Anth-o-knee”) | Data + tech for good 💡 | Heart-first ❤️ | System-aware 🌍 | Inclusion advocate 🏳️🌈 | Quiet joys, bold ideas.
Here for the big questions, quiet joys, and real connection.
The Tiny Angry Witch @tinyangrywitch.bsky.social A series of stop-motion animations about the Tiny Angry Witch who lives in our home! All made with models, puppets, and household objects.
The Tiny Angry Team
David | Lumi | Beth | Odinn | Witch
www.tinyangrywitch.com | https://linktr.ee/tinyangrywitch
UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social UK in a Changing Europe is an academic think tank providing impartial, research-based analysis of the critical issues facing the UK.
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/
Jeff Overs @jeffovers.bsky.social Stills photographer @BBCNews, on duty and off
Money and Mental Health @moneyandmentalhealth.org Independent research & campaigning charity 📣 Our mission? To break the link between financial difficulty & mental health problems 💜
Founded by @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com in 2016. Led by @helenundy.bsky.social.
🔗 www.moneyandmentalhealth.org
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
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
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. 
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social Emeritus Prof of Organization Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, ex-Prof Warwick & Cambridge. FAcSS, FRHistS. Now mainly Brexit analysis including Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Author Brexit Unfolded (Biteback, 2021, 2023).
Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social Campaigner to support the BBC (not a BBC employee). It’s affected by savage UK govt cuts: c40% 2010-2024. BBC costs >49 pence/around 65 US cents a day per UK household. It’s a national public service broadcaster, respected worldwide for accurate reporting.
Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social Politics, policy, public attitudes. Work in polling and comms. Director, Persuasion UK. ex- Shelter, civil service and various other things. 🏳️🌈
https://persuasionuk.org/about
https://strongmessagehere.substack.com/
Arguably @arguablymag.bsky.social The new home of progressive ideas and debate.
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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
Pure @purewater.bsky.social Inspired by art & photography
Macc Sustainable Travel @fhvjhvgvb.bsky.social Sustainable travel is my thing. Pedestrians, cycling, public transport. Green Party Member. Cycling UK local rep. Chairs Cheshire Active Travel Syndicate. Trouble. In posts CEC=Cheshire East Council.
Richard Harris @beeblebrox.com Climate, complexity, data & cats
Climate & Ecosystem Data Intelligence. 315-432.34 ppm. Social tech innovator/entrepreneur, writer of fact & sci-fi, photographer, motorcyclist, cyclist, skier. Ex-CTO of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Owned by cats
Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social Military Historian. Author, ‘The Age of Mammon and Mars: Money and War in the Twentieth Century’ (OUP, March 2027). Economic Statecraft; Strategy; Money.
Author of 2 award-winning books on the First World War. Professor at University of Birmingham.
Ian @laughingcricket.bsky.social An old punk (54) disabled from degenerative disc disease, lifelong pacifist, liberal, and traditional artist. I work in oils, acrylics, pastels, watercolors, stoneware, and porcelain.
Joyfully married cat dad
https://www.saatchiart.com/ianlangham
Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels
Unbelievable Britain - YouTube 🎧
BBC Newsnight 🎥 📱
And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧
BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner
Ian Rotherham @ianthewildside.bsky.social Environmental researcher, writer, campaigner, and lecturer 
David K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com Writes lots of serious whimsy | Wooden Overcoats | Cry Havoc! | Doctor Who | The Tiny Angry Witch | He/Him | would really like a pastry
linktr.ee/davidkbarnes
Labour Climate and Environment Forum @lcefuk.bsky.social An independent organisation working to strengthen climate and environmental ambition across the labour movement.
Auswärtiges Amt @diplo.de Aktuelle Nachrichten aus dem Auswärtigen Amt
Impressum, Datenschutz & Netiquette: t1p.de/jkm1
German Foreign Office @germany.diplo.de News from the German Foreign Office - Follow us in German as well @diplo.de
Imprint and data privacy: diplo.de/2697714
Andy Cropper 🎨🏳️🌈 @andycropperart.bsky.social A painter of night-time cityscapes and landscapes with uncanny atmospheres of eerie uncertainty. Sheffield, UK
My 'link in bio' 👉 https://bio.site/andycropperart
Husband to Nigel 👬 https://bsky.app/profile/sheffcitynigel.bsky.social
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social #Safety and #wellbeing advocate and creator of the #PEEPSS Model.
Social Psychologist. #Methodologist. Sometime #AgonyAunt. Advice giving as praxis. Critical #MentalHealth. Lives by the sea.
Come for a #ResearchTip, maybe ask a question, stay for cat pics
Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social Prof at Oxford Martin School working on food, energy, and climate change. Book: The Best of Times The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science http://shorturl.at/lzCTZ
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction 
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
@sheffieldgarden.bsky.social @sheffieldgarden.bsky.social 
Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social Hadrianophile
"omnium curiositatum explorator"
#Hadrian1900
https://followinghadrian.com/
Francesca H. Dakin @francescadakin.bsky.social Senior Digital Health Researcher at Oxford University
DPhil from @OxPrimaryCare @NIHRSPCR
https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/francesca-dakin
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Duille @duille.com Life is the green leaf.
We're an independent design studio inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Tel: +44 (0)1604 312960
Shop here: duille.com
Tom Prestwich @prestwichtom.bsky.social Amateur photographer who'll mostly be posting pictures of stuff. May even repost someone else's opinion if I agree with it strongly enough.
Marta Miori @martamiori.bsky.social UK Politics Impact Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford
Voting, public opinion, longitudinal methods, nice graphs
Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social Green Party councillor, Wirral.
Co-leader of Green group of councillors.
1. Mainly chat about transport on this website.
2. You can ask me about other things!
3. Often wrong about stuff.
Climate // Transport, Health, Public Realm 🚴♂️🚊🌎
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga was a 20th (1908-1963) century Spanish surrealist painter. #artbots by
@nuwaves_future , @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
linktr.ee/varo_artbot
Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics at LSE. Posting mostly about energy/enviro research. https://stephenjarvis.github.io/
Jeanne Jesse @jeannejesse.bsky.social Mural and mixed medium artist currently living in Louisville Kentucky.
www.JeanneJesse.com
prints available:
www.artmajeur.com/jeanne-jesse
Loretta Robinson @lorettarobinson.bsky.social 🧳 Former Forensic Photographer
🚁 Drone Pilot #EastCoastKin member
📷 Olympus OMSystem Cams
🚔 Retired Law Enf. Oregon
⛔️ Not an Influencer/selling anything
AL Alhinai @al-hinai.bsky.social Academic, engineer, humanist, and a bit of a nerd from 🇴🇲
Tom Scotson @tomscotson.bsky.social Political Reporter for PoliticsHome
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
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
@annasophiegross.bsky.social @annasophiegross.bsky.social 
Moors for the Future Partnership @moorsforthefuture.bsky.social Moors for the Future Partnership protects and restores damaged blanket bog habitats across the Peak District and South Pennines.
https://www.moorsforthefuture.org.uk/
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Dr David Jeffery @drdavidjeffery.bsky.social Senior lecturer in British politics at the University of Liverpool. Expect academic work, parkrun/triathlon spam, and graphs. Views my own 🏳️🌈
Book: Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool? Free ebook (& other links)--> https://linktr.ee/david_jeffery
Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social Taking action to reverse the decline of Sheffield's swifts
Email. sheffieldswiftnetwork@gmail.com
Web. https://sheffieldswiftnetwork.org/
YouTube https://youtube.com/@sheffswifts
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1DFgFbXGmT/
Michael Shanks MP @michaelshanksmp.co.uk Proud to serve as Rutherglen's Labour Member of Parliament. UK Energy Minister. Charity trustee and volunteer. Occasional runner.
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Antonio S. Borge @asalgadoborge.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham|| Treasurer of the British Society for the History of Philosophy || Co-chair UK Spinoza Circle || 🇲🇽
Social Mobility Commission @smcommission.bsky.social Official feed of the Social Mobility Commission. We monitor progress towards improving social mobility in the UK & promote social mobility in England.
https://linktr.ee/socialmobilitycommission
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Shifty Kinect @shiftykinect.bsky.social Tibetan Buddhist, Dzogchen, Musician, Songwriter, Austinite, Baseball Fan,
Never Trumper, Retired Idealist, and Student of Art & Philosophy.
Truth Matters.
#Resist
Fred Thomas MP @fredthomasuk.bsky.social Labour MP for Plymouth Moor View
Member of the Defence Select Committee
Former Royal Marines Commando
Feryal Clark MP @feryalclark.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Enfield North
Minister for AI & Digital Government
FeryalClark.org.uk
David Pinto-Duschinsky MP @davidpintod.bsky.social Labour MP for Hendon. DWP Select Committee. Long career in gov’t and business. Lucky husband. Proud dad. Ever-hopeful Arsenal fan.
Gill Furniss MP @gillfurnissmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough. Sheffield born & raised. Proud trade unionist.
Pete Marsh @petemarshart.bsky.social Award winning painter and printmaker.
Yvette Cooper MP @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social Labour MP for Pontefract, Castleford, Knottingley & Altofts
Tracy Brabin @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social Mayor of West Yorkshire 
Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social MP for Birmingham Yardley
PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social Exclusive stories and insight from Westminster via PoliticsHome and The House magazine. Read our reporting at https://www.politicshome.com and subscribe to The Rundown podcast: http://bit.ly/3M8d963
Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament, Bristol North West
Dame Diana Johnson MP @damedianajohnson.bsky.social Labour MP Hull North and Cottingham. UK Minister of State at the DWP. ❤️Strong Yorkshire tea, cake, crime novels, cinema, black Labradors & a splash of red.
DWP Answers @dwp-answers.bsky.social Bot account posting whenever the Department for Work and Pensions answers or corrects an answer to a written parliamentary question. Monitored by librarians in the House of Commons Library 
Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Andy Nolan @ahnolan.bsky.social AD City Sustainability @ Sheffield City Council (UK) | @theeauc Fellow | Chair @hallamredmires
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.
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of St Andrews
https://axdouglas.com/
https://axdouglas.substack.com/
Latest book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203/against-identity-by-douglas-alexander/9780241648216
Photo by Lauren Douglas
janeillustration @janeillustration.bsky.social Artist/Illustrator; Sheffield and London
Buildings, Maps, Cityscapes, Sketchbooks, Linocuts
The Bare Alternative @barealternative.bsky.social 🌍 South Yorkshire’s Biggest Low-impact Lifestyle and Refill Store 🌊
🌳 332 Abbeydale Road, S7 1FN 🌱 barealternative.co.uk 🌻
Sam Tims @sam-tims.bsky.social Lead analyst at JRF for social security and economics. Previously NEF, policy in Practice
Steven Strang @alchemicalrat.bsky.social Artist, researcher. Anthropology, experimental archaeology, painting, sculpture, visual communication. Slowed but not entirely stopped by ME/CFS. Ottawa, Canada.
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
XYZ Artists @xyzartists.com Indie Curator of Contemporary Abstract & Conceptual Art
xyzartists.com
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman