Joshua Ehrlich @drjehrlich.bsky.social Historian of knowledge, books, political thought, British Empire, South Asia, Indian Ocean World | Assoc Prof @ UMacau | Assoc Scholar @ Harvard | Book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009367967 | Webpage: fah.um.edu.mo/joshua-ehrlich/
UCL Policy Lab @uclpolicylab.bsky.social Bringing extraordinary ideas and everyday experience together to tackle the challenges facing us all.
The Future Governance Forum (FGF) @futuregovforum.bsky.social Transforming the state to renew the nation.
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Maria-Magdalena Pruss @parhaku.bsky.social Islam in South Asia, modern Islamic thought, history of Pakistan and its religious minorities. Princeton PhD. Huge fan of Star Trek and George Eliot. Book: https://www.mqup.ca/Books/R/Rethinking-Islamic-Modernism
Rohit De @itihaasnaama.bsky.social Between Clio and Themis| Lawyer, Historian @Yale | Author of 'A People's Constitution (Princeton, 2018) | Politics. Pop Culture. South Asia
Taylor C Sherman @taylorcsherman.bsky.social Professor of South Asian History. Researching histories of environmental regeneration, 1940s-present. Nehru and all that, too. Working from Bidjigal land at UNSW Sydney
Privately seeking research on ADHD, ASD, OCD, ALD & ABI
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
Shruti Kapila @shrutikapila.bsky.social Politics/ India/ History/Ideas
Working at the University of Cambridge
Words in Financial Times, BBC, AL Jazeera, New Statesman. Columnist: ThePrint India
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-shruti-kapila
Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Swansea West
Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org IPPR is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social Economist
Miatta Fahnbulleh @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Peckham
Minister for Devolution, Faith & Communities
Miatta.fahnbulleh.mp@parliament.uk
Luke Raikes @lukeraikes.bsky.social Deputy General Secretary at the Fabian Society | regional economies, devolution, productivity, industrial strategy, employment rights, employment support, transport, politics | Views are my own | 🏴
https://fabians.org.uk/about-us/meet-our-experts/
ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social Prof of Political & Social Theory @ UEA: regularly a political theorist, often a political analyst, always a rhetorician. Sometimes I teach people how to make political speeches; usually they are happy about it. Mostly I study Reactionary Digital Politics.
Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social Sitting on the sidelines is for Waldorf and Statler. Promoted by Tim Dexter on behalf of Labour both at 23 Orford Rd E17 9NL.
Alison McGovern @allymcgovern.bsky.social Labour MP for Birkenhead, Minister of State.
Progressive.
www.alisonmcgovern.org.uk
Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social dad of four · professor of political philosophy at the university of york · london-irish turned northerner · arsenal fan · trustee at the democracy collaborative · writing about the theory and practice of social and economic justice
Andrew Pakes MP @andrewpakes.bsky.social Labour & Co-operative MP for Peterborough
Nathan Yeowell @yeowell.bsky.social Exec Director of futuregovernanceforum.co.uk
Welsh Labour cllr for Panteg, torfaen.gov.uk
Chair of gwentpensionfund.co.uk
Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social Senior researcher in Political Science Department, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Technopolitics, Geopolitics, Political Parties and Public Opinion.
Marc Stears @mds49.bsky.social Political theorist, author, speechwriter, campaigner. Director UCL Policy Lab.
Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social Chief Executive, Nuffield Foundation
Previous lives:
Chief Executive & Exec. Chair, Resolution Foundation
Founding Chair, Living Wage Commission
John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social Professor | Former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister | Director, Centre for English Identity and Politics | Writing about how ideas of nation and nationhood shape politics today at nationstateandpolitics.substack.com ✍️
Neil Warner @neilwarner.bsky.social ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at @lse-ei.bsky.social. Interested in history, sociology & political economy of socialist parties and labour movements, economic policy ideas including socialisation of investment & economic democracy.
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
George Dibb @georgedibb.bsky.social Assoc Director & Head of Centre for Economic Justice IPPR. Previously IIPP at UCL. Innovation is political. All things policy, politics & running. Views own. 🌈
Adnan (Dann) Naseemullah @dnaseemullah.bsky.social Professor of Comparative & South Asian Politics, Fellow at Wolfson, University of Oxford | www.naseemullah.com | Author: Development after Statism (Cambridge UP 2017); Patchwork States (Cambridge UP 2022); co-author, Righteous Demagogues (Oxford UP 2024).
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Tom Whipple @whippletom.bsky.social Science at The Times
My book, about the radio war: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787634132?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_NPXKFD6KQ3B2P603N1ZN
Will Humphries @willhumphries.bsky.social Southwest and Countryside Correspondent for The Times.
will.humphries@the-times.co.uk
Ben Jackson @benjackson.com The wordst.
Tim Shipman @shippersunbound.bsky.social Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)
Will Lloyd @willoyd.bsky.social Senior Writer, FT Weekend
Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social Data Editor, @thetimes.com
🇬🇧 How is Britain doing? 👉 thetimes.com/data
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
History Today @historytoday.com 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆. Try 3 issues for £5 at http://historytoday.com/subscribe
Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social Labour MP for Tipton, Wednesbury and Coseley. Member of the Business and Trade select committee. Proudly repping British industry and the Black Country. Trade unionist, mama, runner, reader
QTs closed, replies open
Pratinav Anil @pratinavanil.bsky.social historian, feuilletonist, clubland habitué, judgemental judge
Saqib Bhatti MP @saqibbhattimp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Meriden and Solihull East
Shadow Minister for Education
Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social Co host @thenewsagents .
Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
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
Simon Fletcher @fletchersimon.bsky.social Former adviser to Labour leaders, former chief of staff to the Mayor of London. Director of winning Labour leadership campaigns. Socialist.
Political campaigns II writing and analysis II consultancy
https://linktr.ee/simonfletcher
Bobby Duffy @bobbyduffy.bsky.social Director, Policy Institute at King's College London and Chair of the Campaign for Social Science
Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum.
heather.stewart@theguardian.com
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
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Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social Writes twice-weekly On London Extra newsletter, available from https://davehillonlondon.substack.com/. Publishes and edits https://www.onlondon.co.uk/. Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/@DaveHillOnLondon/videos. Busy.
Emma Burnell @emmaburnell.bsky.social Editor of LabourList. Playwright. Cool aunt.
Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social Labour client journalist and member of the right-wing MSM, apparently. Also political editor of HuffPost UK.
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
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social EX Editor, the Guardian/ prospect magazine. The New World. ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
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/
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
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
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.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
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.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social I write, act, sing, broadcast and cook. Occasionally, even for money. One third of the @quietriotpod.bsky.social with @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
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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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).
University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social Celebrating what makes Leeds special ❤️🏳️🌈🌍
Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Political History. The Labour Party and other currently lost causes.
“'Tis a muddle, and that's aw.”
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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Laura Beers @fieryparticle.bsky.social Historian. Occasional podcaster. Author of Your Britain; Red Ellen; and Orwell’s Ghosts. Runner. 🤓📚🏃♀️
Agent: David Higham, https://rb.gy/t8twa
https://linktr.ee/lbeers
Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian.
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
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.
Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social I teach politics at a university in the UK. I'm interested in electoral systems, public opinion, and the politics of non-majoritarian institutions like courts and regulators.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8932-9405
Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
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
Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
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/
Niladri Chatterjee @niladri4u.bsky.social Historian । Researcher, Linnaeus University, Sweden. Affiliated Researcher, University of Oslo, Norway.
Interested in Global Health, Nordic-Polycolonialism, Disaster Politics and South Asian History, Politics, Culture, and Development. PhD in History @SOAS
Abigail Woods @abi3.bsky.social Historian of animal health, farming and the veterinary profession. Vet in a former life. Now in university senior leadership. Owned by English Setters
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
Paul Cotterill @bickerrecord.bsky.social Nurse by training. Vagabond by nature. Imposter by syndrome.
A Habermas-influenced English pluralist, if that's a thing. An organiser of things, which are definitely things.
He/him/ally
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Historian of imperialism, mass violence and atrocity photography.
Current book-project on the My Lai Massacre of 1968 - the final instalment in my massacre trilogy that also includes Amritsar 1919 and Bud Dajo 1906.
Rep by Wylie Agency
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/
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
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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)
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social Political theorist of 💵 ⌛️ ⚖️ 🌱 at Georgetown; Author of THE CURRENCY OF POLITICS (PUP 2022) / DIE WÄHRUNG DER POLITIK (Hamburger Edition, Herbst 2023)
https://stefaneich.com/