Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Sport England @sport-england-se.bsky.social We use our insight, expertise, campaigns and The National Lottery & DCMS funds to ensure that everyone feels able to take part in sport and physical activity.
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social Whitehall Editor for the Observer & chief investigative reporter for BBC R4's The Naked Week. Politics, investigations and taramasalata
Martin Jacques @martinjacques.bsky.social Author, 'When China Rules the World', columnist, broadcaster, speaker. Chair of Harinder Veriah Trust
roterote @roterote.bsky.social I post about politics 🏛️🌹 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇫🇰
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social Managing Director, Europe and co-head of London office, Eurasia Group. Formerly HM Treasury and European Commission. Senior Research Fellow, LSE European Institute. ECFR Council Member. My views. Seeking analytical truth
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
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FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com (also available in German: https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts) - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
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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/
Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism | Regulated by Impress
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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social Middle aged anti-fascist and left libertarian in South London. In to: dub, country and western, critical theory, Yiddish, black history, internationalism, trade unions, salt beef. Fan of: Omar Aziz, Bayard Rustin, Hannah Arendt, Cesaria Evora.
Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social Professor of Int’l & EU Law, Diplomatic Academy Vienna. Past: Prof., founding Director CIGAD at King's College London, specialist adviser House of Lords EU Select Committee, Référendaire CJEU 
Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics, EUI. President of @epssnet.bsky.social. FBA, FRSA. Democracy, parties, elections, electoral systems etc. Live music. COYI
Philip Oltermann @philipoltermann.bsky.social Culture editor for Europe, The Guardian. Ex-Berlin bureau chief. My book The Stasi Poetry Circle (Faber & Faber) is out now
Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Swansea West
poqu @poqu.bsky.social smallfry artist & casual desk gamer • she/her
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Mike Hamlin @mhamlin1.bsky.social Writer, reader, music, arts & film fan. Rooted in education - lifelong teacher now a trustee but interested in most things.
Own views here, + also to be found:
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Steve Hart @stevehart.bsky.social Political activist for change, for Labour, equality, democracy, anti-fascism and a greener world. VC Hornsey& FB CLP Labour. Retired TU officer (Unite). I have a dream - but today we need to build a winning majority - and win. Also a walker.
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
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
Ian McKay @ayemckay.bsky.social 
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
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Heather Rolfe @heather-rolfe.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @britishfuture.bsky.social
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
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Brian Cox @coxb.bsky.social Birding, Nature, Travel. Presently 3 yrs into an extended sabbatical 😀.
Steve Bloomfield @stevebloomfield.bsky.social Journalist
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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social ‘Notes on Now’ every month in Byline Times, Co-founder openDemocracy Led Charter 88 from 1988-2005. Iron Britannia; The Lure of Greatness; Taking Control! Etc Online articles in Authory.
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Paul Webster @paulfwebster.bsky.social Ex Observer editor
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social Professor @unibirmingham.bsky.social UK, FAcSS
Director @irisbirmingham.bsky.social
Research: #migration, #asylum, #citizenship, #diversity
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Faisal Hussain @faisalhussain.bsky.social Journalist | Bureau Chief Karachi @ExpressNewsPK | Panelist @express_experts |
Stephen Passmore @stephenpassmore.bsky.social Artist artpassmore.art mountains, music, green, sustainable, resilient, healthy cities https://www.futureoflondon.org.uk/ volunteer https://nationalparkcity.london/
Paul Lawrence @edinpl.bsky.social Ch Exec City of Edinburgh Council.
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social Novelist: Winchelsea, In Love and War, This Bleeding City. Words in Observer, FT and Harper’s.
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Stewart Joseph @stewartjoseph.bsky.social An escapee from the drowning noise of X. I was an early user of Twitter, a place then to encounter interesting people.
My interests are broad & varied, incl current affairs & politics. Passionate about music & the Arsenal.
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social The campaign for Proportional Representation at UK general elections. Promoted by Make Votes Matter, 27 Old Gloucester Street, WC1N 3AX.
Howard Stevenson @howardstevenson.bsky.social Independent trade union research, education and consultancy. Professor Emeritus, School of Education, University of Nottingham.
Val Birchall @tamerandhawk.bsky.social Cultural policy thinker, maker and doer
Chair National Alliance for Cultural Services and Vice Chair CLOA #localgov #everyonecanlead
Andrew Watt @andrewwatteu.bsky.social General Director, European Trade Union Institute
@etui.bsky.social
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Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social Comparative political analyst. Populism, authoritarianism, social and political identities. Fellow @EUI_Schuman
Amelia Gentleman @ameliagentleman.bsky.social Reporter at the Guardian
Jane Haynes @janerockhouse.bsky.social Journalist, Birmingham. Politics, social affairs, campaigns. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/authors/jane-haynes/ Also Substack https://insidebirmingham.substack.com/ 07471025568 jane.haynes@reachplc.com
Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social CEO of @taso.org.uk, Chair of Trust for London, Executive Committee of Political Studies Association. The usual disclaimers.
Clare Edwards @clareedwards.bsky.social Director of Learning & Events, @YVConcerts. Award winning producer specialising in singing, music and events. Conductor & Musical Director of @notoriouschoir.
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.
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Leon Leuser @leonleuser.bsky.social Dad of two
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Michael H @michaelh14.bsky.social Left Politics
Solidarité ✊️🌹🍉 🍀 #ForTheMany
UK & 🇫🇷 citoyen
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Chris Kirk @chriskirk51.bsky.social Ex Lab Cllr, Parliamentary Agent & more. Fought S African Apartheid in 60s,70s & Israeli Apartheid now. Palestine will be free 🇵🇸🍉. Also retired Med.Biochem. Prof & 3rd sector CEO. We must have hope. Corbyn tried to give it to us. No financial appeals pls.
Mike Press @mikepress.bsky.social Writer - about music, about London, often both together. Sometimes about design. Edinburgh based.
One half of the Walk on the Wild Side project.
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Chris Blythe @innercitygarden.bsky.social Passionate about communities, green spaces, urban food growing.
Views my own
Birmingham/Oxford
Labour Left Podcast @brynhgriffiths.bsky.social Labour Left Podcast | Colchester Labour | Posts personal capacity | Fighting for Green Socialism | Vice Chair Momentum | CLPD Executive | He/Him | Podcast links 👉 https://linktr.ee/brynhgriffiths
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Helen Miller @helenmiller.bsky.social Economist. Deputy Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, theifs.bsky.social
Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social Tan Smith.
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Liz McShane @lizmcshane.bsky.social Irish-born Hispanophile now living on the lovely Kent coast after many years in Tottenham. Labour councillor for Folkestone Central.
Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social The political home for everyone who wants to be part of a much more equal, democratic and sustainable future. Powered by members.
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British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social The conversations we need on integration and migration, identity and race.Contact: info@britishfuture.org
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Journalist. Speaker. Writer. Commentator.
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Society. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture. The personal. The structural.
Editor in Chief, Byline Times.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Husband, father and Mayor of the greatest city in the world. He/Him.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
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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
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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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
Claire Spencer @thedancingflea.bsky.social Devolutionary | Agathist | Lab and Co-op | Lvl. 10 Paladin | Speaking to connect, not on behalf of others | Just get the bus, FFS
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
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Tony Smith @smithtonyd.bsky.social #Networks with #government, #thinktanks etc for #Birmingham, one of the UK's great but dis-empowered #cities. I own my views but they are socially constructed.
Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social 📖 Writer 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier owner 📖 https://t.co/BjHB4lzjMG
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social Associate Professorial Research Fellow in International Relations (IR) at LSE IDEAS, managing LSE Ukraine programme. Book: Authoritarian Contagion. Find me on SubStack:
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
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Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social Journalist @guardian - defence and security editor. Based in London, travel to Ukraine and anywhere else when I can.... signal: londoncalling.77
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social Pen name of Andrew Scott.
Fake History, Fake Heroes and Notorious.
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
John Kampfner @johnkampfner.bsky.social Author, journalist
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