Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbtโฌ | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Trans ally ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Intersectional feminist โ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social Cosmopolitan, liberal | Catholic | ๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐น๐ถ | Mark 8:36 | he/him
The views I express here are mine alone and do not necessarily express the views of my employer (because I am not employed)
Matt @stradiwhovius.bsky.social Deranged but surprisingly insightful musings.
A goofy lil dude. A neurotic overthinker. A vicious little shit.
Gucci Bedpan @guccibedpan.bsky.social Do you have another opinion?
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social Policy and Public Affairs at The Housing Forum. Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Views are my own. Cambridge based. https://housingforum.org.uk/
Ava Santina @avasantina.bsky.social Editor and superloop fan @politicsjoe.bsky.social
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social Fighting for trans+ rights, together.
https://www.transsolidarityalliance.org.uk/
https://www.transsecretsanta.co.uk/
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Jane Zacharzewski @dzyrl.bsky.social Language learner, Europhile, cinema-goer, politics nerd. Day job at Bon, Brussels office of Agentschap Integratie en Inburgering.
English/French/Dutch/Spanish
Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com The worldโs most trusted flight tracker.
Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social I enjoy all the meats of our cultural stew.
London-based. Film, television, games, politics, Charlton Athletic Football Club.
He/him.
cones @coneshotline.bsky.social cones (elizabeth) | 33 | she/her | "a special kind of degenerate" - some guy on twitter
Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social South African in Scotland. Will probably post about politics/movies/tennis/rugby/gay nonsense.
https://letterboxd.com/JordanP/
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Jon Tonge @jontonge.bsky.social Professor of Politics
Zoรซ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ @zoesomelastname.eurosky.social ever so normal (she/her)
Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social A celebration of all the Shit Stuff imposed on our environment. Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental neโer do wells.
Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social
John C @badsocialism.bsky.social PGR at QMUL 2025-29 researching Political Identity,Decolonisation, "Caribbean-ness" and the World Crisis 1935-1960
Poetry in Motion, Like a Pathe Newsreel" -@tomblack.uk ๐ณ๏ธโ๐//๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐น๐น
Will sometimes write things of consequence here:
https://jconcagh.weebly.com
National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social Sharing information about archaeology at National Trust places across England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social Author of The Sunday Times' book of the week How To Kill A Language, all about language loss and linguicide. I have won and lost a bunch of journalism awards too but more importantly I won Xmas University Challenge twice and Rosalรญa follows me on TikTok
Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social
Joel @storywonker.bsky.social A serious person who does big things
Lynne Featherstone @lynnefeatherstone.bsky.social Former LibDem MP. Minister in Coalition. Originator and architect of the same sex marriage law. Peer. Book:Equal Ever After.
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries with Undercurrent on the people, events and movements reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britainโs new far right? Watch our first film ๐
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social Barrister | TV legal consultant (Mr Bates, Landscapers, Criminal UK, Defending the Guilty) | Legal blogger & media commentator |
Kalisher Trust Trustee
Blogs, lectures, podcasts, profiles here:
https://linktr.ee/MaxJLHardy
David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social Yorkshire based. Interested in politics. Labour member but not a cultist.
Ben Rathe @benrathe.bsky.social Recovering Press Secretary. Evertonian. Colts fan. Joyful cynicist, according to my own colleagues.
Jeremy Driver @jdriver89.bsky.social Head of Campaigns at Britain Remade
Gavin Shuker @gavinshuker.bsky.social The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for. We should be kind while there is still time. Master of carbs cookery.
Luke Holland @lukeoliverh.bsky.social Former child detective. Recovering political advisor. Current Strategic Comms head.
Unavoidably tattooed. Perennially underwhelming.
Melbourne / Naarm via Cardiff.
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Theo Bertram @theobertram.bsky.social Director of the Social Market Foundation
Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
Duncan Lamont @duncanlamont2.bsky.social I post cool charts about markets and investing. Scottish and into running. Head of Strategic Research @Schroders. Not investment advice
Leftback @leftback.bsky.social Chelsea and very socially liberal politics, so basically you'll get angry at something.
Anya Martin @anyamartin.bsky.social Housing affordability wonk & number cruncher. Policy Lead @ YIMBY Alliance. Former director of PricedOut.
Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social Director of Policy and Research at Centre for Cities, working on Housing, Planning, Devolution. Stuff on Ukraine + Eastern Europe and Japan + East Asia too. YIMBY. Views own etc. ๐ฅ๐บ๐ฆ
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social Independent military history author and researcher. If you find my writings interesting or useful, any tips are appreciated: http://ko-fi.com/chrisowiki
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Blueskyโs only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | ๐บ๐ธ via ๐จ๐ฆ. Not ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
*ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG
๐ CLT
Bob Melling @bobmelling.bsky.social Low Salience, Huddersfield
Proverbs 7:7
Ian Byrne MP @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social MP for Liverpool West Derby | Parliamentary lead on Right To Food & Hillsborough Law Now | Co-founder Fans Supporting Foodbanks | ian.byrne.mp@parliament.uk
Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social Research Director at cross-party think tank @smfthinktank.bsky.social, prev @suttontrust.bsky.social. Expert on educational inequality/social mobility.
Trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social. MH campaigner in memory of mum. Views own. linktr.ee/beckymontacute
Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social 25 | โ๏ธ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Tinfoil Matt @tinfoil-matt.bsky.social The brain worm infestation caused by living next to Telegraph opinions every day
cookbot ๐ค @cook.report beep beep boop boop. I am a robot who does automatic things that @chriscook.news forgets to do, like posting stories that he's worked on.
Martin Stanley @ukcivilservant.bsky.social I write about, and for, the UK civil service and regulators. Author 'How to be a Civil Servant' and 'How to Succeed in the Senior Civil Service'. Previously Business Department and CMA.
Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social Guardian First Edition writer
contact: libby.brooks@theguardian.com
insta: @libbyjbrooks
extracurricular: books, hills, standing stones, gingerbread, Labradors
The Post @liverpoolpost.bsky.social Liverpoolโs quality newspaper, delivering proper journalism to 34,000+ subscribers across Merseyside. https://www.livpost.co.uk/
@uncivil-s.bsky.social @uncivil-s.bsky.social Barrister, ex-public sector, semi-demi-retired, various legal part time jobs. Legal interests public law, housing and some property, crime, statutes, and most other things. Lives Birmingham and on Dartmoor, works London and South. Owns 26 suits. Has sons.
Neil Atkinson @knoxharrington.bsky.social Turns meetings into pints and pints into meetings. Host of The Anfield Wrap and occasional writer of things. Author of Transformer for the good people at Canongate.
Carl Cashman @carlcashman.bsky.social ๐ธ Leader, Liverpool Lib Dems
๐๏ธ proud councillor for Church Ward
๐ก mortgage broker โ๏ธ๐๐ผcarl.cashman@liverpool.gov.uk
Mounsey. @mounsey.bsky.social Assume it's Liverpool. Or on a bike. Or drinking beer.
Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Business, feminism, reproductive rights and lots besides. As seen in: Observer, BBC, Prospect, New Statesman, The Persistent.
Substack: https://bigfatnegative.substack.com/
๐ Coastal Kent
Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk Official UK Met Office account. Get the weather in your hand with our app: http://linktr.ee/MOContent
Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social Creative Director in audio. Ex telly.
Made things like KILL LIST, HARSH REALITY and THE GIRLFRIENDS happen (and many others!). Won Ambie, BPA, Aria, Signal, RTS, Grierson and Ed Murrow Awards.
Toy soldier enthusiast.
Peter Ruddick @peterruddick.bsky.social Business Reporter & Presenter for BBC News
Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social History podcaster/author. Revolutions + The History of Rome
Sarah Rainsford @sarahrainsfordbbc.bsky.social BBC Eastern Europe correspondent. Expelled from Moscow. Now in Warsaw. In Ukraine when I can. My book on all that & more is "Goodbye to Russia" (online & in good book shops). I may also be a little bit obsessed with a certain spaniel
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
James Chapman @jamesmchapman.bsky.social CEO of PR firm Soho Communications. Former director of comms at HM Treasury. Former political editor, occasional columnist for @cityam.bsky.social. Views my own. www.sohocommunications.co.uk
The Author, Sรฉamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social Journalist at the Financial Times, ex London Centric. Not the chancellor. Email me on rachel.rees@ft.com
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social "Former energy czar" - the Guardian. "Energy big brain" - Politico.
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Adam Pritchard @artvanderlay.bsky.social I used to be a SpAd but to be honest it was so long ago I donโt think it counts.
Recruitment bod @ www.door10.co.uk
I am trying so hard to be nice on here.
JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social South West England via Spain and the Midlands - but made in NW5.
Trying hard not to give in to despair
Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social Britain editor, New Statesman. Lead host, New Statesman Podcast (Publisher Podcast Award winner '21-24) & co-host Westminster Reimagined with Armando Iannucci.
Matt Belfield @mattbelfield.bsky.social Culture vulture. Weirdo magnet. Rhubarb enthusiast. Comms, marketing and PR. Charity bod.
Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social Democracy Programme Lead / Senior Researcher - mySociety/TheyWorkForYou. Also for some reason Postman Pat reviews.
London Reconnections @lonrec.bsky.social Transport analysis for London and occasionally beyond.
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
@annasophiegross.bsky.social @annasophiegross.bsky.social
Joe Twyman @joetwyman.bsky.social Co-founder and director of the public opinion consultancy Deltapoll. Former Head of Political at YouGov (2000-18). "Housewives' favourite pollster" - The Times.
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Jamie Greer @jamiemgreer.bsky.social Journalist @liverpoolecho.co.uk covering young people in the city region and their stories, along with general and breaking news. Email jamie.greer@reachplc.com | https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/authors/jamie-greer/
@andyteebaypics.bsky.social @andyteebaypics.bsky.social Liverpool Echo photographer
Arj Singh @arjsingh.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor, The i Paper
LUFC. arj.singh@inews.co.uk. Got a story, tip or just fancy a chat? DMs open.
Ben Quinn @benquinn75.bsky.social Guardian Political Correspondent
UK current affairs (with a fair bit on the Far Right, populism, disinfo)
Irish Londoner
Story? ben.quinn@theguardian.com
Something sensitive? Secure drop: https://www.theguardian.com/tips
Victoria McCloud ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐โโพ๏ธ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social Former UK Judge, now Litigation Strategist (W-Legal UK). Speaker & human rights fighter. Brought McCloud v Ministry of Justice, returning pensions to Public Sector workers. Largest State discrimination claim for all women ever.
BBC Push Notification Log @bbcpushlog.bsky.social A record of the push notifications sent out by the BBC News app, beginning from May 19th, 2025. Paused from July 10th, 2025
Not affiliated with the BBC
Philip Lee @drphiliplee1.bsky.social Elderly care physician in the NHS. STILL not a member of parliament
Damon Evans @damocrat.bsky.social Recovering rantoholic.
https://www.instagram.com/mrdamonnomad
Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com Correspondent for the Financial Times.
In Washington DC, with eyes on the ๐.
Previously in NYC, various cities in Germany, New Delhi and London. Ex BBC.
๐ฌ Signal @joemillerjr.48
Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social Assistant Political Editor at The Mirror. COYS enthusiast. You can get me at Alexander.brown@reachplc.com
Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social Still too middle class for punk, will this be the social platform that fills the screaming void?
Eurovision Song Contest @eurovision.tv โEurovisionโ is actually the name of the pan-European telecommunications network and not the monster
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.
@christogrozev.bsky.social @christogrozev.bsky.social
Dr Dion Georgiou ๐จ๐พโค๏ธ๐ฌ๐พ @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. ๐ดโช๏ธ
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Eddie Mair @eddiemair.bsky.social Lack of Influencer
Tony Vaughan KC MP @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social Proud to be the Labour MP for Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh.
Follow me on Instagram @tonyvaughanmp
Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social Nuffield College, Oxford
Co-Director, British Election Study
Director, Nuffield Politics Research Centre
President, British Polling Council
Voting, surveys, explanation, singing โฆ
Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social Freelance journalist living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine
BBC local radio freelance reporter, sometimes heard on LBC radio
Very biased: against fascist and authoritarian regimes; for democracy, rule of law, and human rights.
Louise Baldock @louisebaldock.bsky.social Stockton on Tees, England. Professional Genealogist at Finding Families. Retired politician.
HK @hkesvani.bsky.social Journalist who mostly does Dad Posting. talk from time to time on @trashfuture.bsky.social and @10kpostspodcast.bsky.social
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
Sarah Allen @pinkteapot3.bsky.social Walker, crafter, boardgamer, reader, wildlife lover and hedgehog rescuer.
George Parker @georgewparker.bsky.social Political Editor Financial Times, former FT bureau chief in Brussels. Presenter R4 Week in Westminster. Crystal Palace and Somerset CCC supporter