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
Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social Digital policy strategist and creative technologist. Special interest, European digital sovereignty.
Also geopolitics, innovation, industrial policy.
Location: Den Haag 🇳🇱 From: 🇿🇦
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
Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social Co-leader of the @scottishgreens.org 🍉
West of Scotland MSP
'Windmill-worshipping eco-communist'
he/him ✝️🏳️🌈
Promoted by the Scottish Green Party, 19b Graham St, Edinburgh
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
MJ @msmindstrike.bsky.social Born complainer, channelled into political nerdism/activism. Disabled single parent.Recovering child Mensa member. Probably AuDD. Flower photographer, 90s grunge lover. My school report said “idiosyncratic/contradictory”, interpret that as you will.
Lawrence Carter @lawrencecarter.bsky.social Investigative reporter | Founder/Director of Verbatim Investigations and the Centre for Climate Reporting
https://bsky.app/profile/verbatim-media.bsky.social
Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social Econ person. VP of Policy and Research, @economicsecurityproject.org. Former NEC. #Rstats, Team Macro, dad, Chicago Guy. newsletter.mikekonczal.com
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.
You sign up to my newsletter here: willhaywardwales.substack.com
Columnist at The Guardian.
Dario Perkins @darioperkins.bsky.social MD Global Macro, macro themes/research/risks, central-bank specialist, started career at HM Treasury in late 90s, ex ABN AMRO, AC Milan fan
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
Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social Environment editor at The Guardian
Send info confidentially via Signal: dpcarrington.35
Or via this link👇
https://www.theguardian.com/tips
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Ian Moss @ian.allenmoss.co.uk Politics, policy, music and blah.
https://www.thestory-network.com/ ,ex Senior Civil Servant, ex Labour Advisor
From Stoke on Trent to the Sussex countryside.
Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social North Yorkshire Councillor for Aire Valley. Green Party. Columnist for Yorkshire Post. Write for Yorkshire bylines. Former Head of Young People's Learning for Yorkshire and the Humber
Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social Theatre, books & writing.
Bits of culture & history that I find interesting 📸
Personal opinions on this & that.
Glasgow/London 🎭
SAST. Theatre 118
www.kaymarquis.com
Sue Hawley @suehawley.bsky.social Exec Director at Spotlight on Corruption - working on fostering political integrity and ending the UK's role as a hub for kleptocratic assets
https://linktr.ee/endcorruptionuk
www.spotlightcorruption.org
@spotlightcorruption.org
Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social Neighbourhoods, community, social housing, poverty, art, film, humour, puns, photography, cycling, climate
James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info Earth systems prof & assistant director of @gsiexeter.bsky.social | Technosphere Earth newsletter https://www.technosphere.earth
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social Writer of books, most recently: No Questions Asked: How Football Joined the Crypto Con (amzn.to/42aKE0w). Investigative pieces at http://theuglygame.wordpress.com/
Signal: mcalladine.44
Jason Robinson Wiley @jasonrobinsonwiley.bsky.social Shrewsbury. Labour Member. NFFC supporter. Politics & IR graduate. Aston University. Ruskin College, Oxford. I collect CDs & vinyl. Also, I have dyspraxia&dyslexia,please forgive my grammar&spelling. He/him. Views are my own.
Tom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social Pro photographer in Edinburgh posting landscapes & other work. Regular free newsletter at https://tomduffin.substack.com/ I'd be delighted to be contacted at tom@tomduffin.com to ask about photography work.
Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social Former BBC foreign correspondent reporting from
Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, N-Ireland, Pakistan, India, South Africa.
Book: http://hughsykes.substack.com
Biog: https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08pnq3d
Archive: https://soundcloud.com/hughsykes
Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social Award-winning photographer and writer. Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2026.
Website is https://marcdavenant.com
Eliot Whittington @whittso.bsky.social Lead thought leadership as well as business convening and organising at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Daydreamer, geek, husband, father. 
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social Paris-based writer of European allsorts at the Guardian
Ben Wray @benwray1989.bsky.social Journalist & researcher: ben.wray@hotmail.co.uk | Co-author 'Scotland After Britain' (Verso, 2022) | co-ordinator of the Gig Economy Project newsletter https://thegigeconomyproject.substack.com/
Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be Scot, European citizen, economic policy aficionado, green tinged democratic socialist, social democrat, book lover, coffee addict and pedant.
In that order.
Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social Global Managing Partner Sustainable Business Practice, Brunswick Group / Advisor UNFCCC / Prior: Global COO Condé Nast / Guardian / Die Zeit
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolfgang-blau-68726244
Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social Museum exec, visiting prof at the Dunn School, Oxford, and UCL Chemistry. Ex MRC, Editor of New Scientist and Science Editor of the Telegraph. Co-author #VirtualYou and more books. Neutron bouncer
John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social writer / filmmaker / human rights / Wikipedia / Turkish stuff / he/him / PhD @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social / investigatinglambeth.substack.com
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
David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, LSE. CPE, central banks, BoE & quantitative tightening, monetary history, Keynes, Karl Polanyi, Soviet economic history, complaining about neoliberalism, etc. He/him. Views my own not employer's.
Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social Chief leader writer, The Guardian. @tianran at the other place
Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social Emmy-award-winning journalist
https://lukemcgee.substack.com/
luke@luke-mcgee.com
Woz Ahmed @wozahmed.bsky.social CxO, NED, advisor. Curious. Deep tech (most especially semiconductors) & China. https://chilliventures.substack.com/
Usual sensible disclaimers apply.
Ken Macdonald @kmkmacdonald.bsky.social Retired and living in Central Scotland. Hebridean connections. Hearts, Everton & Scotland. Indy supporter. Pro-Europe.
Current affairs. Photography.
Blue Tick @bluetickatbluesky.bsky.social My stated views / opinions are based on my life experiences & limited knowledge & should never ever be taken as the gospel truth or advice.
40+ yrs in energy regulation.
I’ve a Northerner’s tolerance for abuse, propaganda, idiots & liars.
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Amy Ringenbach Dawson @bleuz00m.bsky.social Software development Data Forensics | Advocacy PR, Opposition Research #environment #peace #justice #union #equality #PFLAG | Quaker | Be kind, first, and accurate.
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
Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social Journalism, constructive moaning, weird music, telly, LUFC, all the usual shit.
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴 @robertwoolley.bsky.social Cynical mid-50 something -Gen X'er. British/English/Irish 48er. Personal politics complex. Undiagnosed Aspergers. Transport person who became a software dev in late 40s.
Brent, London/Dublin/Kilkenny/ASEAN. (But mainly Brent).
Blocks arseholes.
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.
@ianbonnar3.bsky.social @ianbonnar3.bsky.social 
Bill Hall @artboy.bsky.social Artist, art teacher (semi-retired!) and, printmaker.
Interests: Art, design, architecture, music, gardening, Latin & ballroom dancing, and politics.
Beth Gardiner @bethgardiner.bsky.social Journalist, author of PLASTIC INC. Buy US http://bit.ly/4hTHGFh Buy UK http://bit.ly/3LTjHdi And CHOKED #airpollution book. Bylines in NYTimes, Guardian, NatGeo, Scientific American, & more. AP alum. bethgardiner.com
Andrew Downie @adowniebrazil.bsky.social Scottish foreign correspondent and author. Biographer of Sócrates. Currently writing a biography of Pelé. Português and Español. #GGTTH São Paulo/Madrid/Edinburgh
Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social Deep woke, hard centrist, bunny hugger, ❤️ girly swots, mountain biker, SF and Fantasy bookshop owner, anti fascist, EU citizen. I miss David Bowie a lot. 🇪🇺🇨🇦🏴🇬🇧🇺🇦
Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. African Politics; Authoritarianism. Maybe some cycle campaigning. "low waffle threshold". Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com Editor of FT Alphaville, co-host of The Story of Money and author of Trillions and A Fabulous Debt. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper, author - Beyond Brexit: A new deal for Britain, Ukraine and Europe.
(possibly a parody - who can even say)
Emily Mack @emmy-mack.bsky.social Fiftysomething lawyer in London - 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🏳️⚧️ - She/her
Michael Goodier @michaelgoodier.bsky.social Journalist on the Guardian Data Projects team
London and Brighton
Ignore my silly posts
Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com Nomad & Print Artist since 1998: Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling. Traveling along my German grandmother’s roots. Mover: Strong voice against Trumpism. Linktree: linktr.ee/Strandjunker
Kirsti M @heritage-meisie.bsky.social Scatterling of Africa. Conservation, architecture, feminist and bibliophile. Usually found either in an archive, on a scaffold, in a ballet class, on a bike or up a hill. 🇿🇦in 🏴
Eddie Mair @eddiemair.bsky.social Lack of Influencer
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 💭 ✨
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Paul Duggan @paulduggan.bsky.social Banking & Finance lawyer. Views my own. Why would they be anybody else’s?
Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social Advocate of proportional representation and progressive politics. Humanist. Anti Brexit! Anti Trump! @libdems.org.uk
Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social He/Him
Raconteur
Modern Studies teacher.
Good design preacher.
robfmac.com
❤️ @audproctor77.bsky.social ❤️
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Rouleur @rouler.bsky.social Bikes, Moto & Velo. Retired, Rejoiner. Learning Guitar. Rugby, Beer. Anti-Nazi
Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/
Richard Smith @smifff.bsky.social Dark Money and all that
Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social Charlemagne columnist & Brussels bureau chief, The Economist.
Past stints in Paris, Mumbai, London. Français. Personal feed.
Bio 👇. https://medium.com/@spignal/stanley-pignal-bio-2acd9b705ceb
Charlemagne@economist.com
Will Lloyd @willoyd.bsky.social Senior Writer, FT Weekend
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social Amnesty Media Award 2014. Cryptoparty. Anti-Robodebt campaigner. Digital rights. Mutant network node herder. Completing a Master of Social Work. Devouring entropy https://www.patreon.com/asherwolf
Andrew Richards @andrewwr235.bsky.social Energy, mathematics, forecasting, analysis. Wine, cooking, reading, music. Generally curious. Hopeful that my country, the UK, will one day come to its senses again
Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social Yorkshire artist. RNLI supporter. Nobody knows what I do, until I don't do it. Anti Tory with their sewage politics
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
CG in retirement @goldishcj4.bsky.social Scottish environmentalist, ex advisor, regulator, EU & rights advocate. b.315.98 Worked in: 🇮🇸, Antarctica, 🇳🇴, Oxford, Seattle, Alaska,🇨🇭, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Brussels, Glasgow, Shotts, Stirling, Adelaide, 🇮🇹, 🇵🇹, 🇲🇩, 🇳🇱.
James Walker @jameslwalker.bsky.social Political Reporter at The National | Other words and work with The Economist, France TV and Vice among others | Columbia Journalism alum
Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk Open is a Verb
Pride is a Riot
He/Him/They
There are many more of us than you
Glasgow, Topical Paradise
Jonathan Callaway @callahijo.bsky.social Just my opinions. And glad to have abandoned X.
Adrian Goldberg @goldbergradio.bsky.social "Where's The Money Gone? The Battle For The Soul of English Football" out now via Byline Books. Email: @goldbergradio@gmail.com
Michael Taylor @michaeltaylormcr.bsky.social Journalist at theBusinessDesk.com, sometime politico, professional northerner.
James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Politics UK @dailycorruption.bsky.social Daily Politics and News in the UK. Fact-check and comment. Previously: Daily Corruption on X on 14yrs of Tory.
#fbpe #news #politicsuk #politics
📍 LONDON 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Paul @xcivxciv.bsky.social Internetter since '94, sarcastic, IT, technology, photography, DIY/maker.
🇬🇧 London and Kent, England.
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Paddy Blewer @padsky.bsky.social British / Irish "liberal cosmopolitan" comms guy with a post soviet, MENA, energy, cap markets and geopolitics background. Like sport and food too. I’m not Claude Rains but I am a cynical idealist from South London. https://about.me/paddy.blewer
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
Ms Lesley Smith @mslesleysmith.bsky.social Ex Amazon and Revolut. Former councillor. Love London, Norfolk. Politics, walking, running slowly…🇺🇦
Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, trade unionist and socialist
https://inews.co.uk/author/andrew-fisher
Mark Hennessy @markhennessy.bsky.social Ireland and Britain Editor,
The Irish Times
Leading The Irish Times’ Common Ground project exploring relationships on the island of Ireland, and between Ireland and Great Britain
https://www.irishtimes.com/common-ground/
Dick Winchester.. @dickwinchester.bsky.social Teller of truths. Energy tech/bizdev/strategy consultant, adviser and columnist. Motorsport not football.