Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social New novel THE BREAKUP
Others include Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, You Can’t Spell America Without Me, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century.
Co-created CommandZseries.com, ran Studio 360, New York, SPY
https://www.kurtandersen.com
Nacho Torreblanca @jitorreblanca.eurosky.social Distinguished Policy Fellow. Geoeconomics and Tech Programme. ECFR. https://ecfr.eu/profile/jose_ignacio_torreblanca/
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk London's history, architecture, public transport -- and offbeat events to enjoy.
Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social Proud Milton Keynesian and Labour MP for MK North. Can't spell, views my own.
Martin Jacques @martinjacques.bsky.social Author, 'When China Rules the World', columnist, broadcaster, speaker. Chair of Harinder Veriah Trust
Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social FT Alphaville reporter. Ex-“veteran” fund manager. Resolution Foundation Assoc. Baring Foundation Trustee.
Samanth Subramanian @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social Words in the Guardian, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and others. Books on fish, Sri Lanka, and JBS Haldane. Newsletter: http://samanth.substack.com
Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social Japanese politics analyst; author of The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan; Chicago-born Cubs fan now living in DC; marathoner.
Substack: Observingjapan.substack.com.
Business: www.japanforesight.com
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social Lib Dem Life Peer. Party President 2020-5. Author, "Polling UnPacked" / http://www.theweekinpolls.co.uk / https://libdemnewswire.substack.com / imprint + privacy http://markpack.org.uk/legal-privacy / he/him
Alice Hancock @alicemhancock.bsky.social Financial Times global shipping and industry correspondent covering ships, steel, chemicals and the like.
London-based. Views my own. Tips and thoughts: alice.hancock@ft.com
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
ECFR Asia @ecfrasia.bsky.social ECFR ideas and analysis of #EU #foreignpolicy towards #Asia with a focus on #China #India #Japan and the #IndoPacific
https://ecfr.eu/privacy/#social-media-profiles
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
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
Dr Shona Loong @shonaloong.bsky.social Conflict, aid politics, #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar | SNSF Ambizione Fellow @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social | Prev University of Zurich and @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
https://www.shonaloong.com
Rory Medcalf @rorymedcalf.bsky.social Professor Rory Medcalf AM | Head of the National Security College at the Australian National University, Canberra | Indo-Pacific strategy | An independent Australian worldview 
Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy at University of Manchester. Soon to be Birmingham.
Nicolas Bouchet @nickbouchet.bsky.social German Marshall Fund Senior Visiting Fellow.
US foreign policy, democratization, democracy promotion, civil society. Throw in some Eastern Europe and Russia and we're mostly good to go.
David MacSweeney @macsdavid.bsky.social Founder: @9dashline.com
Angela Stanzel @angelastz.bsky.social Senior Associate @Stiftung Wissenschaft & Politik (SWP), Asia Division. Views are mine.
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
Nigel Gould-Davies @nigelgould-davies.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies. Contributing editor, Survival. Fmr Ambassador to Belarus. Victims' rights advocate. Views mine.
Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
https://ecfr.eu/
Patrick Cronin @patrickmcronin.bsky.social Asia-Pacific Security Chair, Hudson Institute &
Scholar in Residence, Carnegie Mellon University
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil @mlafontrapnouil.bsky.social 🇱🇻🇫🇷 Ambassadeur en Lettonie @francediplo / Vēstnieks Latvijā @francijalatvija / Ambassador to Latvia.
Ex-@ECFRParis & @CSIS
Personal account, usual caveats
Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social at @uisweden.bsky.social | Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow | Council Member @ecfr.eu 📸 Stas Kartashov
🎙️ co-host Mildly Alarmed
✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander
Alec Ash @alecash.net Writing about China. Editor, ChinaBooksReview.com. Senior fellow, Asia Society. Author, ‘Wish Lanterns’ and ‘The Mountains Are High’. alecash.net
@mscheuermaier.bsky.social @mscheuermaier.bsky.social 
Michael Kovrig @kovrig.bsky.social Senior Adviser, Asia @crisisgroup.org | Strategic narratives on China, Indo-Pacific, geopolitics, geoeconomics, philosophy and values. Ex-diplomat. Don't start none, won't be none. 实事求是。己所不欲,勿施於人 https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelkovrig
Asia Society @asiasociety.org Asia-focused nonprofit with 16 locations around the world, building bridges through policy, culture, arts, and more.
Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, China, geo-politics, climate; Founder of ChinaDialogue; contributing editor Prospect Magazine. Chair of Centre for Investigative Journalism; NED E3G; visiting professor Lau Institute, KCL, co-chair Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Steve Richards @steverichards.bsky.social Political writer, broadcaster, podcaster and host of Rock N Roll Politics live shows. Latest book-Turning Points in Modern Britain
Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb
Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social Current affairs, politics, education and miscellany. All views my own.
Substack at edrith.co.uk 
stephen fisher @stephen-fisher.bsky.social Here for the good time not the long time
Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social Columnist & broadcaster. Presenting for BBC Radio 4, news reviews for This Morning & Sky News. Highly commended/shortlisted Society of Editors' Commentator of the Year 2023 & 2024.
soniasodha.com
Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President of the European Commission
Ed Owen @ed-owen.bsky.social Political strategist for @labourtogether.bsky.social. Fellow of @ThirdWay.bsky.social & @AtlanticCouncil.bsky.social. Ex-UK government adviser, always Man City 🩵 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Jon Hillman @hillmanje.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. Former advisor to Secretaries of Commerce, State, and USTR. Author, THE DIGITAL SILK ROAD: http://bit.ly/ChinaDSR
Chhengpor Aun @aunchhengpor.bsky.social Policy Researcher & Program Manager at The Future Forum (Cambodia) | MA Alumnus: @HertieSchool.bsky.social | Ex-Fellow: The International Institute for Strategic Studies | Posting about: Digitalisation, IR & Emerging Techs, Indo-Pacific, Cambodia & Vietnam
Sophia Gaston @sophgaston.bsky.social UK Foreign Policy Lead at ASPI and Visiting Fellow at King's College London
Research: Euro-Atlantic & Indo-Pacific security, UK's alliances, China, Russia, AUKUS
mail@sophiagaston.com
Oli Henman @olihenman.bsky.social Taking action for people and planet, environmental campaigner, Councillor in Bath & N E Somerset
Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org @asiasociety.org's think tank. Tackling key policy challenges confronting the Asia-Pacific. 
William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social Trustee at Indigo Trust. Formerly CarnegieUK, Good Things Foundation, TPW, UK Civil Service (No10, Cabinet Office, DtI, DCMS). Defence, tech, online safety, rural, tractors, cats etc.
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
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.
Trisha Craig @trishacraig.bsky.social Executive Director at Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. I love travel, cooking, dogs, and talking and writing about geopolitics. After 12 years in Singapore, have landed back in the US in New Jersey.
Emily Kasriel @ekasriel.bsky.social Deep Listener. My book: Deep Listening: Transform your Relationships with family, friends & foes publishing May/June 2025 HarperCollins UK + US. Exec Coach, Mediator, Journalist formerly @BBC EmilyKasriel.com
Philip Shetler-Jones @shelter-jones.bsky.social RUSI Senior Research Fellow, Indo-Pacific 
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Simon Roberts. @ideasbazaar.bsky.social Business anthropologist | Partner at Stripe Partners
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Mark Fitzpatrick @marktfitz.bsky.social Grandpa. Ex-expat in UK. Former State Dept.
Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social Prof Public Policy & Director, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath. Trustee at Foundations and HEPI. Chair, Living Wage Commission.
Blake Herzinger @bdherzinger.bsky.social I like big navies and I cannot lie. Navy Reservist | CIMSEC | Asian Security | ex-Citi, AEI, USSC, Twitter, Pacific Forum, US Pacific Fleet | Proud Idahoan | Opinions mine, but you're welcome to adopt them
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social Senior correspondent for WSJ covering collisions of geopolitics, tech, and power. 15+ yrs in Asia, mostly China. Co-author of SURVEILLANCE STATE: https://www.josh-chin.com/books
Signal: joshchin.86. Also: josh.l.chin@protonmail.com
Charlie @supbrow.bsky.social Fighting Sea-blindness for over 20 years.
Relax. It's just BlueSky, and my own opinions.
Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social Washington Post National Security Reporter. Past features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Signal: zsd.19
Joseph Dempsey @josephhdempsey.bsky.social Research Associate for Defence & Military Analysis,
The International Institute for Strategic Studies
Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com 🇸🇬 Writer and activist. Author of 'The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope'. Editor-in-Chief of @mekongreview.com. Everything Elf at https://wethecitizens.net.
Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl China Team Brussels Office Head & China Projects Analyst @amo.cz @chinaobservers.eu. Studies China, Singapore, and Taiwan; party-state & international relations. | 何森璱
https://sensehofstede.nl/
Ambassador Kirk Wagar (ret.) @ambwagar.bsky.social Former US Ambassador to Singapore, proud immigrant, Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council Asia Security Initiative. Massive Canes and Lions fan!
Fergus Ryan @fergus.bsky.social Wordcel, aspiring prompt engineer & China analyst.
📨 Tips & anon feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/fergus-ryan
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Dewey Sim @deweysim.bsky.social China Correspondent at the South China Morning Post. Previously covered Singapore and Southeast Asia, now watching Chinese foreign policy in Beijing.
dewey.sim@scmp.com
scmp.com/author/dewey-sim
Susannah Patton @susannahpatton.bsky.social Director of the Southeast Asia Program and Project Lead, Asia Power Index at the Lowy Institute
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
Bill Bishop @billbishop.bsky.social Writes Sinocism, @niubi on Twitter, https://sinocism.com 
Graham Webster @gwbstr.com Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford
Newsletter: herecomes.transpacifica.net
Basics: gwbstr.com
Also: #filmphotography
Zichen Wang @zichen.bsky.social Mid-career MPP '25 candidate @PrincetonSPIA. Newsletter
Pekingnology www.pekingnology.com on Substack & part of NON-GOVT Center for China and Globalization (CCG). @xhnews alum. What else is there to say?
Mathieu Duchâtel @mtdtl.bsky.social Following mostly economic security issues in East Asia and Europe, from Taipei and Paris. An eye for all things maritime. Director of International Studies at Institut Montaigne. 
Hunter Marston @hmarston.bsky.social Director for Southeast Asia & Asia Power Index Lead @lowyinstitute.bsky.social. Nonresident @instglobalaffairs.bsky.social. Adjunct Fellow @seasia.csis.org. Associate @9Dashline.com. Ultra runner. Dad.
Stephen Dziedzic @stephendziedzic.bsky.social Foreign Affairs (Asia Pacific) reporter, ABC. Canberra-based. Personal account. Pron: JED-jets
Hannah Beech @hkbeech.bsky.social Asia reporter at The New York Times. Noodles, pickles, spice. 
Aries Arugay @ariesarugay.bsky.social Professor & Chair, Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines Diliman | Visiting Senior Fellow, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute | Editor-in-Chief, Asian Politics & Policy
Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social Writing for The Economist—mostly on the US economy, with occasional forays elsewhere. Recreational Britain-watcher. Previous lives in macro investing and polling.
Substack at: https://notes.archie-hall.com/
Natasha Loder @natashaloder.bsky.social Health Editor, The Economist.
free words: overmatter.substack.com/subscribe
Tom Standage @tomstandage.bsky.social Author, deputy editor at The Economist, maker of pizzas, drummer, gamer, history nerd 
@joshkurlantzick.bsky.social @joshkurlantzick.bsky.social 
Anna Fifield @annafifield.bsky.social Independent New Zealand journalist and foreign affairs analyst.
Joshua Spencer @joshuajspencer.bsky.social Asia news editor at The Economist. Based in Singapore, previously London.
Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social Wall Street Journal reporter in Hong Kong covering China and the world.
email: austin.ramzy@wsj.com signal: austinramzy.99
Chong Ja Ian @chongjaian.bsky.social Political scientist from 🇸🇬. Works on security & foreign policy in NE & SE, major power competition. AcademiaSG co-editor. Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie China. Currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. Comments mine alone.
Elaine Pearson @elainepearson.bsky.social Asia Director, Human Rights Watch
Author of Chasing Wrongs and Rights
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social 
Robert Ward @robertalanward.bsky.social Director of Geo-economics, Japan Chair ジャパン・チェア・プログラム Senior Fellow for Japanese Security Studies at The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robert-ward-44286611
John Bradford @marsecbradford.bsky.social CFR Int'l Affairs Fellow in Indonesia. Executive Director, YCAPS. Life tastes better with a little salt. http://ycaps.org
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Sam Baron @samuelgbaron.bsky.social Asia policy wonk and wearer of many 🎩. past: 🇺🇳 @BizHRAsia_UNDP & @TheAsiaGroup. Personal account. RT ≠ Endorsement. (www.samuelgbaron.com)
Gordon Flake @lgflake.bsky.social Refugee from Arizona/ DC. Perspectives from Australia's Indian Ocean Capital of Perth