Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social The tweeter formerly known as @jxb101 at the previous place
Brexit is shite
🇨🇦🇬🇧🇿🇦🇨🇿☸️🔸
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social Archaeologist of borders, working on the Anglo-Cymric borderland and its folklore, digital humanist. Trustee, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops very much my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
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
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk Labour MP for Sittingbourne & Sheppey and former nurse. For help & support please email kevin.mckenna.mp@parliament.uk with your name and address.
Promoted by Lee Griffiths on behalf of Kevin McKenna, both at 29 Park Rd, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 1DR.
Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social 20th century art, surrealism; Georgian antiques, porcelain and silver; cats; Europe; Woke; pro Palestine & two states; taxing wealth not work; climate change action; reentering CU & SM then EU; pro multiculturalism & immigration. Anti fascist, anti racism
dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social Doctor/Strategic Innovator
⚕️XLII® Medicine/Psychol🧠ParaOncology®
BSc MBBS PhD MSc MBA CMgr
Genomics Immuno Microbiol Path Psych
Med Director Kids Cancer Charity, Person
Medicine/This Alarming Mess/Human Stuff
Rebuild from X
(anti-data-grab freq post cull)
Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley
Joe Ruffell @joeruffell.bsky.social https://profiles.open.ac.uk/joe-ruffell
Interests: Social Systems Theory, Albania, Films
Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
https://ecfr.eu/
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
@themisterfoster.bsky.social @themisterfoster.bsky.social Politics and IR student. Warships and sci-fi nerd. Hiking enjoyer
alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social EM doc. Politics nerd 🇷🇴🇬🇧🇫🇷
European at core
Into military stuff nowadays, out of necessity
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social Volcanologist, climate scientist, writer, broadcaster, activist, socialist, best-selling author of HOTHOUSE EARTH: AN INHABITANT'S GUIDE. Born @ 313
Home town, Llanelli (South Wales) - lives in the wonderful Peak District
Website: billmcguire.co.uk
Iain Dale @iaindale.bsky.social LBC Radio presenter
Gob on a Stick
Serial book editor
Co-host of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast
Omer F. Orsun @omerorsun.bsky.social Political Scientist at NYU Abu Dhabi | Interested in international security and machine learning
Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social A playwright without a theatre is just a poet with a split personality. For permissions etc, Brennan Artists. https://www.brennanartists.com/
Daniel Fiott @danielfiott.bsky.social Professor and Head, Defence, Investment and Innovation, CSDS - VUB; and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Real Instituto Elcano.
More on me: https://linktr.ee/danielfiott
Rebecca McKee @rebeccamckee.bsky.social Associate Director at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk working in our Ministers team with special interest in parliament, ministerial leadership, private office and (sometimes) public inquiries.
Former academic and citizens' assembly organiser 🫶
Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social Proud Milton Keynesian and Labour MP for MK North. Can't spell, views my own.
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Jonathan @norfolkgin.bsky.social Aspiring Idler. The I love playing records and still make Norfolk Gin. Sometimes at the same time. Can be found drinking gin too. Hoping for peace and cooperation across the world.
Leslie Mabon @ljmabon.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Environmental Systems, Faculty of STEM, Open University, UK. Sustainability science for resilient and just coastal places. Scotland - Japan - Taiwan. Future Earth Coasts Fellow. Big Raith Rovers fan.
resilientcoastal.zone
Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️
Host of the FT’s award-winning ‘Political Fix’ podcast🎙️Author 📚
B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social University of Reading (UK) PhD student studying naval strategy and amphibious warfare. Author of books On Tactics and On Operations. Occasional blogger: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social English and loving living in North Wales.
💚 Mountains, valleys, rivers and seas, even with more rain!
Lavenham Teacher @robknapp.bsky.social Primary School Assistant Head Teacher, politics obsessive, Oxford United fan, wildlife enthusiast and lover of science fiction.
Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social If it's dark and twisted, send it my way. Joy is important even in the bleakest of times - small joys too. Bad at rules. Grumpy old lady, but not old. Self-medicating with books.
José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press). Tech Policy Press contributor
https://josemarichal.github.io/
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
Geno Teofilo @genoteofilo.bsky.social NGO Aid Watch Founder and NGO Communications Professional. Former Oxfam, Norwegian Refugee Council & others. Coffee please!
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
Alex Bennett @abennett034.bsky.social Proud Husband, father, son and brother
Professor of Political Science
Volunteer Firefighter
My views are my own/
Likes/reposts/follows ≠ endorsements
Cass Phoenix 🇦🇺🔥🥳🎓⛵🔥 @maven501.bsky.social Epistemologist.
Context curator.
Bricoleur of memes.
On Yalukit-willam land Victoria Australia
Michael S Goodman @msg77.bsky.social Professor and Director of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
James Prentice @jamespren.bsky.social Researcher, likes data, graphs, infographics and telling stories with data. PhD in political analysis from Sussex uni - like all social science subjects. Mainly post about political analysis and my research within the Hastings & Rye area. Fabian member.
Sybren Bakker @sybrenbakker.bsky.social Msc. Crisis and Security Management & War and Peace Studies @ Leiden University
Lucy Bailey @labailey.bsky.social Producer on BBC World Service radio's Newshour. Background / interest in science, politics & law esp. international / human rights. NUJ (union) rep. Jazz / garden / nature / food enthusiast now living in Tunbridge Wells. lucy.bailey@bbc.co.uk
Kate Bowie @katebowieaz.bsky.social Political junkie, reader of books, living in Carefree AZ.
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Hustler's Convent @hustlersconvent.bsky.social Probably should have thought of a better name this time.
🇪🇺🇺🇦
European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social Publishing original and substantial contributions to the study of comparative European politics.
A journal from @ecpr.bsky.social and @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social Paintings conservator, heritage scientist, and philosopher. A/prof UiO. Local pub bore. Londoner at heart, though currently in exile.
🇪🇺 🇵🇱&🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦
Views mine alone, unless they are yours too. Then we can be friends.
Vannevar Bush stan account.
(He/him) ↙️↙️↙️
Lotje Boswinkel @lotjeboswinkel.bsky.social Deterrence & US alliances in Europe & IP | PhD researcher @CSDS | Morgenthau fellow @ND_ISC | prev. @HCSSnl | @SciencesPo alumna
@colonelblimp.bsky.social @colonelblimp.bsky.social 
Jack Pannell @jackpannell.bsky.social Senior Researcher at the British Foreign Policy Group.
Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social Ex-🇬🇧diplomat. Now an 🇺🇸. Resigned over Brexit lies. Frmr Ambassdr to 🇬🇪 . Writer Byline Times. Patron, European Movement. Advisor Eurasia Foundation. Member, Commission on Political Power looking at how to strengthen UK democracy. Frazzled mom. Owner of 2 🐕🦺
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Brigid Fowler @brigidfowler.bsky.social Policy Analyst, House of Lords European Affairs Committee - so, here mainly to post on the Committee's work @lordseuroaffairs.parliament.uk & see what others are doing/saying/publishing, re: mainly UK, EU, UK-EU politics, economics, policy, IR, nat sec
Filip Ejdus @filipejdus.bsky.social Professor of security studies at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade. Spare time democracy activist. www.filipejdus.com
Heine Paus @heinepaus.bsky.social Laws of war, human rights ++. Ex-broadcast journalist (NRK).
He/him. 🇳🇴+🇪🇺 citizen.
Derrick Wyatt's Law and Policy Blog @blogwyatt.bsky.social Derrick Wyatt KC, retired Oxford professor and lawyer
Law and Politics
Geopolitics and how to cope with Trump and Putin
Blog at http://derrickwyatt.substack.com
Nicola J. Smith @drnickismith.bsky.social Associate Prof in Political Science @BhamPolsis (she/her)
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
Martin Neujahr @martinneu.eurosky.social Defence Industry Executive, Ex General Staff Officer.
Mark M. Turner @markturner25.bsky.social Retired soldier, historical researcher, and college educator. All views and opinions here are my own. Democracy is never finished.
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
Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House |Author of "Deep Connections: the hidden battles to control undersea cables" (Polity, Sep 26) | Europe, geoeconomics of tech, tech sovereignty | Amsterdammer in London 🇪🇺
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
Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing for the social sciences. Find out more about publishing with us at https://press.lse.ac.uk.
Jonas Olsson @jonasolsson.bsky.social Defence Correspondent BreakingDefense.com | Nordic/Baltic security & breaking stories | Former SVT journalist (Sweden’s public broadcaster, 30+ years) 🌍 linktr.ee/jonasolsson
@aglayasnetkov.bsky.social @aglayasnetkov.bsky.social 
Dr Daniel Dunleavy @drdunleavydan.bsky.social 
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social Research & teach on authoritarian states and human rights. Head of @ucdpolitics.bsky.social (opinions my own, obvs.)
Publications: https://tinyurl.com/bdfcnf8u
Academic Freedom Officer @psaireland.bsky.social & editorial board @cpcs.bsky.social
Centre for Governance and Democracy (CGD) at Queen Mary @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social This is the Bluesky Account of the Centre for Governance and Democracy (CGD) within the School of Society and Environment (SSE) at Queen Mary University. Follow us for updates, events and other news related to our research.
Dr Natalie Jester @nataliejester.bsky.social Lover of food, sci fi and dogs 🥨 🖖🐕 Feminist. Lecturer @ Uni of Gloucestershire: militaries, arms manufacturers, gender, digital things. Co-convenor @cawpbisa.bsky.social [she/her]
Web: nataliejester.com
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines" (2027) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social Researching militarism, coloniality, state violence, abolition, gender, race, class. Lecturer at University of Manchester. She/her. ♿️
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah-wright
Tony Potter @tony-potter.bsky.social Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP funded PhD student at the Open University | Researching Sensory Experience in Caeretan Funerary Assemblages | #NewMaterialism | #AssemblageTheory | #MaterialReligion | #Archaeology | #Etruscology | #Neurodivergent | #JACTDurham
Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social Vice Dean and Professor at the IE School of Economics, Politics and Global Affairs at IE University, Madrid (she/her)
www.catherinedevries.eu
Respect the Marble Substack: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social The Viz one
AKA Evie
Council worker and writer
Both jobs death related
Ashes to Admin and Get Ahead of Being Dead out now
Locate International ambassador
https://linktr.ee/eviekingwrites
Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism, 'Contractor'.
Mujdat E., PhD @mujdat-2025.bsky.social PhD in Politics & International Studies @UniofWarwick
Interested in politics, intelligence and security studies, Northern Ireland 'Troubles', archival research, research support
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Eliot Wilson @eliotwilson.bsky.social Writer, essayist, adviser | cofounder Pivot Point CulturAll | City AM i Paper Telegraph The Hill CapX Worth Spears | former House of Commons clerk
Martin Farr @martinfarr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History at Newcastle University
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/martinfarr.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-farr-3746b39/?originalSubdomain=uk
https://newcastle.academia.edu/MartinFarr
Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
🌍️ www.graduateinstitute.ch
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social Iraq War vet. Former secret 🐿️ on Russia, counterterrorism issues.
MI —> MT —> WA. Still wanting to Occupy Wall Street.
Opinions, quirks mine.
Words: LA Times, Foreign Policy, Newsweek. Face: MSNBC, Al Jazeera
♥️🔒♾️: @jokar.bsky.social
Justin Bronk @justin-br0nk.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow for Airpower and Military Technology at RUSI, London. Associate Professor II at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy. Pilot. Views are my own.
RUSI biography and publications: https://t.co/wgeOUvRQdO
Cecilia Cavero @ccaveros.bsky.social 📚 Ph.D Candidate (ABD) in Political Science and Social Data Analytics at Penn State | La Caixa Foundation Fellow | Project Manager @ripilab.bsky.social | Organizing @jqconworkshop.bsky.social | Peacebuilding | ccaveros.github.io
Joe Spearing @joespearing.bsky.social He/him. Labour/health economist.
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/joespearing/home?authuser=0
Torbjørn Kveberg @tkveberg.bsky.social Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at NTNU. Cyber and influence. These are my own not very thought through views.
Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social Columbia Sociology & Sustainable Development…
Fan of math, science, evidence based practice & nuance…
Pragmatic realist & autodidact…
R/ts are NOT endorsements, all standard disclaimers apply.
Josh Wilkes @joshuamwilkes.bsky.social Reporter at Domino Theory .
Geopolitics, innit .
Lover of nature and science .
Reader of books .
Follows sports to keep up appearances .
Peter Nedergaard @peternedergaard.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Research interests: European and Nordic Politics, Political Economy. Collector of modern ceramics, Faroese paintings and Christine Swane paintings. Lifelong fan of Bob Dylan and modernist poetry.
Beverley Loke @beverleyloke.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Australian National University | Co-Convenor of the ANU China Seminar Series | Great power politics, Hierarchies and Hegemony, Global Order, Global IR, China’s foreign policy, US-China, Indo-Pacific.
Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social CEO of the Institute for Government