Ruth Weissmann @ruthbetold.bsky.social features editor in search of rant stabilization @heistberlin
Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social Journalist at the Financial Times, ex London Centric. Not the former chancellor. Email me on rachel.rees@ft.com
Manchester Histories @mcrhistories.bsky.social Manchester Histories is an award-winning charity that works collaboratively to reveal, share and celebrate Greater Manchester’s diverse histories and heritage.
https://linktr.ee/manchesterhistories
Ameobi’s Hokey Cokey @toonarmy2112.bsky.social I'm a #NUFC fan. My liver hates me, my bank account fears me, and my heart belongs to Shola Ameobi.
Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
@crunchcrunchcrunch.bsky.social @crunchcrunchcrunch.bsky.social
Steve Williams @iloatheskies.bsky.social I'm @i_loathe_tweets at the other place.
Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social My new album LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) out NOW!
Get LIAR: http://tt.bio.to/LIAR
All things Tanita: https://linktr.ee/tanitamusic
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Substack: substack.com/@dmitryopines
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social Just a journalist, actor, broadcaster, singer, dreamer (in no particular order)… rep Red Talent Management. AuDHer 🧠 Views my own 💭 ✨
Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social Historian|20th Century Britain|London
Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology at University of Sheffield. Research on autism & distraction
Julia Mitchell @jmitchsk.bsky.social
Alan Woke 2 @mrpostsgood.bsky.social Auuuuuuugh
Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social Writer, Educator, DEI Practitioner. Starting fall 2026 Asst Prof at CSU Long Beach. Author of Reproductive Citizens & A Just Future w/Cornell University Press. Co-President of Coordinating Council for Women in History. Rogue scholar. Rage writer.
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot 🏳️🌈 author and activist in 🏴
Software engineer, TTRPG GM, and author of dark fantasy books
(he/they)
💜💗💙
https://tgraywrites.carrd.co/
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
molly @pastachips.bsky.social co-wrote REVOLTING PROSTITUTES https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/548-revolting-prostitutes
أنا عم بدرس عربي 🇵🇸
Yiannis @yiannisbab.bsky.social Campaigns on nature, climate finance and human rights.
Writing on European politics and the far right.
Insights, reporting and the occasional opinion.
Greek bearing GIFs.
yiannisbaboulias.substack.com
@jaramachtsachen.bsky.social @jaramachtsachen.bsky.social Worte verschiedener Art - Theaterautorin, Journalistin, Essayistin, Poetin.
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social Associate director in public services @Instituteforgov. Passionate about crime.- B Ben @benbeach.bsky.social left politics, football, literature, film. all views my own.
DietsKw @dietskw.bsky.social 50% migration background; until Brexit in UK now back to Germany; lover of theology and theory, for practical reasons; PhD on power analytics of Christian ministry; failed jazz pianist.
Reposts are worthy of one's reconsideration, no more than that.
Emma Payne @fedbybirds.bsky.social Screenwriting, poetry, comedy, printmaking, painting, eels, beetles, general detritus
Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social Professeur de droit public / Professor of Public Law (Université Toulouse Capitole)
Droit, philosophie, philosophie du droit
Law, philosophy, philosophy of law
Christian Burset @cburset.bsky.social Law professor and legal historian at the University of Pennsylvania
Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.
Repository of articles, presentations & videos: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social Towards a big, efficient public sector that serves the least of us. Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School. United Campus Workers of Georgia. Father of 3. Chicago southsider. Proud 〽️ichigan alum. 🏀 nut.
Nate O @nateo.bsky.social An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social Cohost at http://conspirituality.net.
DM for Signal. Antifascist Dad forthcoming from North Atlantic: Spring 2026: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807656/antifascist-dad-by-matthew-remski/
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social Comedian'n'writer'n'podcaster. TED Speaker. Take my coffee like I take my power.
SophieChapmanTalent / SueTerryVoices
👉🏾 https://linktr.ee/athenakugblenu
📕 Buy History's Most Epic FIBS & FAILS!
🎧 Bust or Trust or PROcrastinate
📺 youtube.com/@innitfactory
Dan Stapleton @danstapleton89.bsky.social It's hard enough to remember my opinions without remembering my reasons for 'em (he/him)
Kate Birkbeck @katebirkbeck.bsky.social Writing about militia, federal finance, the international arms trade. | Postdoc @Brown | Ernest May Fellow @Harvard
punkacademic @punkacademic.bsky.social Anarchist | historian | political culture and education policy | disabled | MS | he/him | Evertonian
Debating Anarchism
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/debating-anarchism-9781350118102/
punkacademic.org
@tobyharnden.bsky.social @tobyharnden.bsky.social
Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social Editor of The Progress Playbook: https://theprogressplaybook.com
We focus on proven climate and sustainable development solutions.
Email me for collaboration opportunities: nick.hedley@theprogressplaybook.com
Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social Host of The Dig podcast, author of All-American Nativism.
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. All views my own and not of those my employer.
Claire Hanna MP @clairehanna.bsky.social MP for South Belfast & a social democratic, anti-sectarian, new Ireland. Leader of @sdlp.Bluesky Like arts, sustainability, Europe. Mum of 3 great girls Claire.Hanna.MP@parliament.uk.
Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social Professor of Law & Democracy @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Constitutional Law | Human Rights | Brexit | Devolution | Political Violence | Colonialism | Other Assorted Dourness
He/Him
Call me Bill @williamshuttoh.bsky.social "I support Man City. Like drinking, like a laugh, chat, you know - bit of a debate, argument, scrap, fight, punch up, break some bloke's nose. I like life!"
Dr Kate Maltby @katemaltby.bsky.social weekly at the i newspaper (news column)
monthly at Prospect & at The Stage (on theatre)
often at FT & Observer (books, culture)
also Deputy Chair, Index on Censorship; Co-Chair, Critics' Circle (Drama); Senior Research Associate, Jesus College, Cambridge
Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social Immigration lawyer & cat dad
Facts care about my feelings.
Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social Scrappy podcast about radical environmental & #anticapitalist politics. Hosted by @sparki1969.bsky.social & @bobbuzzanco.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast
mcfc_lw @liamctid.bsky.social Respected Parrotsman
Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Senior Reporter in Beirut, Al Jazeera English
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy '25-'26
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut '25
Tom Fisher @tomfisher23.bsky.social Teacher; Prison Education; NE London; he/him
Jaimie Kaffash @jkaffash.bsky.social Editor in chief of Pulse magazine during working hours. Full time Arsenal fan
Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social 🍏 Green MP for North Herefordshire and leader of the Green Party MP group in Parliament. Mum, activist, optimist!
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
Alex Wilson @adjwilson.bsky.social London agency strategy person. Bearded non-league football hipster. Previously 上海 &北京.
@michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social Violinist, Prof at Barenboim-Said Akademie, concertmaster of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. In the spotlight mainly for speaking out about Gaza since early 2024. Involved in artistic and academic projects amplifying Palestinian voices.
All views my own
Andrew Kersley @andrewkersley.bsky.social Investigative journalist at @londonermag.bsky.social - andrew@the-londoner.co.uk
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Previously freelance at Observer, Sunday Times, Mirror, Private Eye etc
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.
Dave Merritt @butwhatifitsall.bsky.social Gen Xer (1965), benefitted from the golden age of the UK welfare state and social mobility. Career in social housing (remember that?) now retired. Father of Jack Merritt, killed in the 2019 Fishmongers’ Hall attack. Writing a book. Food. Music. Politics.
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
less_ink @lessink.bsky.social Zur Kritik der Kulturkritik. Prodesse et delectare. Literaturwissenschaft. More matter, less ink.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social
Founding Director, End Climate Silence
Author, *The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It*
genevieveguenther.com
Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture, UCL. Proudly Cornish and quasi-Italian. Interested in the 1930s (1848-1950). Biographer of Celia Fremlin.
Mira Hammad @mirahammad.bsky.social Barrister at Garden Court North, Views own
Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social Green Party, Greens Organise Steering Committee, Democratic eco-socialist, Internationalist, intersectional class politics, NHS, Unison, Villa. Views my own. he/him.
Max Liu @maxjliu.bsky.social Freelance writer
TheParisAngel @theparisangel.bsky.social “Have you got any Gauhaus? Have you got any Gauhaus?”
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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@nyguild.bsky.social member
huseyinkishi.bsky.social @huseyinkishi.bsky.social Orwell fan. Interested in tech, the arts and music.
@katharinaschuster.bsky.social @katharinaschuster.bsky.social Taking the liberty to think ahead. Menschenrechtsstabil, machtmissbrauchsensibel. Smash patriarchy
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social Professor of Economics @UniFAU | development economics, economic history, political economy, causal inference, Middle East | All opinions personal. sites.google.com/site/cbinzel/
Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social A progressive set of civil liberties & human rights barristers committed to publicly funded work.
📍Manchester
🏆Top Tier Set - The Legal 500 (2026)
Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social Lecturer in Environment and Development at @GlobalDevInst
(Pre) Asso. Prof. of Human Geography, @NTNU.
Tigrayan,
I write about #TigrayGenocide and more.
lewisryder.bsky.social @lewisryder.bsky.social Historian of collecting, museums and colonialism. Currently a Leverhulme ECF researching emotional politics of British colonial loot c.1750-1914.
Jonathan Shainin @shainin.bsky.social
onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social goose was not valued, eggs do not lay eggs
Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social Historian of C19th politics, Chartism, socialism, Radicalism. Currently working on working-class Radical ideas about chattel slavery and wages-slavery. Bye-Fellow at Homerton College Cambridge.
Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk Barrister & mediator.
Things I like: legal history & legal oddities; music & musical instruments; Mesopotamian history; & Portuguese wine and Port.
My professional website is: http://www.giffordhead.co.uk
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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/494-hegemony-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqJNrqKZ8ydc63_O5y4SrzNyv9lpYrFBw3P-Bs4O0Y-tEdJft1u
www.jeremygilbert.org
Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America https://www.aribermanauthor.com/
Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social Cork-Donegal migrant blend. Knows some law.
Coman Hamilton @coman.bsky.social Newswire editor at German Press Agency dpa. Tech reporter. Irishman in Berlin
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social Professor of the Political Economy of Europe at LSE. Interested in democratic representation and inequality, worried about the survival of democracy. Author of Anti-System Politics (OUP, 2020). Also random thoughts on football, cycling, the weather etc
Niema Movassat @niemamovassat.bsky.social Dr. iur | Volljurist | Bundestagsabgeordneter 2009-2021
Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social Sociology prof @ Florida International University, senior research associate @ University of Johannesburg, author of Delivery as Dispossession (Oxford UP, 2022), editor of Spectre, deputy editor of City & Community
émile @marxvolta.bsky.social "We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine / And the machine is bleeding to death"
Lowerclassjane @lowerclassjane.bsky.social Während die Meinungsfreiheit allgemein ist, wird die Kunstfreiheit als eine spezielle Form der Meinungsäußerung verstanden, die durch das Recht auf künstlerisches Gestalten und die Verbreitung von Kunstwerken geschützt wird.
Pauline Jäckels @paulinejaeckels.bsky.social Redakteurin in der Meinungsredaktion der taz
Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk A wanderer in space and time
Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk Displaced Devonian in Yorkshire, ageing goth who yawns a lot (2 sleep disorders and chronic fatigue). Never been a "real man" so a little bit NB, here for the SF, history, science and friends
Icon from Doomtown, best card game ever made
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
JT @jazztee.bsky.social
Raul Zelik @raulzelik.bsky.social Pensar para cambiar
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Cllr Sam Easterby-Smith @samsterby.com Green Party councillor for Old Moat, Manchester. Active travel troublemaker. Wizened software engineer. Own views. He/Him
Promoted by Sean Duggan on behalf of Sam Easterby-Smith (Green Party), at 36 Manchester Road, Manchester. M21 9PH