Tobias Jones @tobiasjones.bsky.social Italy-based journalist & award-winnning writer: Ultra, The Po, Blood on the Altar, A Place of Refuge, The Dark Heart of Italy, Utopian Dreams etc. Carpenter, listener, teacher - always co-building communities (Windsor Hill Wood, Common Home etc.) NSNO
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
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 🐕🦺
Quakers in Britain Peace Team @peace-campaigns.quaker.org.uk We support #Quakers to live out their deep commitment to #Peace.
RTs not an endorsement.
Quakers in Britain, Friends House, NW1 2BJ
Matthew Mckeague @memckeague.bsky.social CEO @archhfund.bsky.social | communities, built environment & social infrastructure | interested in all kinds of places | music and running most of the rest of the time
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social Reading, writing, & thinking about cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, modernism – & Una Marson, Nancy Cunard, Edith Wharton, & other people & things like that. Leverhulme ECF in English at University of Edinburgh.
Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social London author. Latest novel Phantom at the Feast out now on No Exit Press. Tony White is an RLF Fellow. CWA member. Views my own. No DMs. Mailing list etc.👇🏼
https://linktr.ee/author_tonywhite
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social Politically homeless now Keir Starmer has resigned. Only saving grace would be Darren Jones. No bio no follow. Based in Essex. Horoscope Leo/Monkey
Tony Harcup @writerlytone.bsky.social Tony Harcup writes about journalism - mostly in books and articles, sometimes here and at @rememberlop.bsky.social
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/journalism/people/academic/tony-harcup
ChrisGibsonWildlife @chrismothman.bsky.social Naturalist, photographer, speaker, author, conservationist. GREEN party member. Wildlife Advocate at Beth Chatto Gardens.
#BridgesNotBorders #IamEUropean
www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk
New book for @princetonupress.bsky.social...see my website frontpage.
Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social New & vintage stationery from around the world, since 2009. Our shop is at 12 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL. https://www.presentandcorrect.com
Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social Author, nonfiction writing tutor, editor, proofreader. Out now in paperback, Endless Flight: the Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth (Granta). Agent: @thehamiltonagency.bsky.social 
Michael Wood @michaeldwood74.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Researcher - Sport Management @ Northumbria University, #PhD student - #Sport #Culture, #Places, #Spaces, #People. Future #Lidos co-founder. Frequently #Swimming or #Cycling. Views my own.
Rosa Schling @rosaschling.bsky.social Oral historian researching the history of childcare activism https://childcarehistory.org.uk/ Co-founder of On the Record. Trainer with Oral History Society. Doctoral student at Institute of Education, UCL.
Future Lidos @future-lidos.bsky.social Lido project leaders pooling resources to bring the joy of outdoor pool swimming to more communities across the UK & Ireland | DM to join.
www.futurelidos.org
DJ Taylor @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social Writer. Orwell: The New Life now in pb. The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J.R.R. Tolkien imminent.. Avid Norwich City fan.
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).
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social Writer commentator academic. Books Editor, Bella Caledonia; Co-founder Kirkcudbright Fringe Festival; Co-editor, 'Britain Needs Change: The Politics of Hope & Labour's Challenge', pub. Nov. 28 2024.
Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social art, architecture, environment & politics | former UKHE worker | GPEW (but here as a civilian) | chief distractions: novels, poetry, botany, buildings | he/him | Green Light (2006)
Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
Agnes C. Poirier @agnescpoirier.bsky.social Journalist, writer & broadcaster.
📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury)
📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld)
✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, Belvedere, coming soon.
https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Paul Cheney @halfmanhalfbook.bsky.social Reader | Non-Fiction Reviewer | Blogger | Book Collector | Dad | Development Engineer | Geek | Beer Lover | All views mine
http://halfmanhalfbook.co.uk/
@eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social The art of the East London Group. Also on Instagram:- http://instagram.com/eastlondongroup/ & Facebook http://facebook.com/EastLondonGroup. All images: copyrighted. Find out more about the Group here:- https://www.eastlondongroup.co.uk/ 
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Vron Ware @vronsta.bsky.social Writer and taker of pictures. Books like Beyond the Pale: white women, racism and history (1992), Return of a Native: learning from the Land (2022) and England's Military Heartland: preparing for war on Salisbury Plain (with 3 m8s). http://vronware.org
Sahil Dutta @sahildutta.bsky.social Political Economist at City Uni
Hana Loftus @hanaloftus.bsky.social Planner, designer, co-director at HAT Projects, chair of Creative Colchester. Also food and fungi and music. www.hatprojects.com, some of my journalism at https://muckrack.com/hana-loftus/articles, more writing and podcasting scattered around the internet.
Ian Christie @ianpchristie.bsky.social Emeritus Assoc.Prof, Centre for Environment & Sustainability, University of Surrey. Environment, policy, ethics. Anglican. 25% Scot. Germanophile. ACCESS, CUSP, CECAN research networks; & Perspectiva, GreenAlliance, Theos, WWF. Views here personal
Mark M. Weston @markmweston.bsky.social The author of "The Art of Wellbeing." Devoted to the healing powers of nature and arts.
Tom Stanger @tomasstanger.bsky.social Editor of The Gothic Revival magazine, paranormal investigator, autistic researcher on 19th century Gothic Literature & religion, lover of old horror films, also write some book reviews, take bad photos & other bits & bobs
https://linktr.ee/tomstanger
Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
Richard Baker @bakerpictures.bsky.social Photography projects from south London https://www.bakerpictures.com/about
AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social Still growing stuff, running and generally interested. Probably library chat will happen. 
Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social Knowledge Transfer Facilitator @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk. Bridging research & policy on place-based policy, social infrastructure, regional growth, & devolution. #PolicySky #AcademicSky
Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk
Latest publication: Five Different Stories About One Thing (Confingo). https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/five-different-stories-about-one-thing-by-elizabeth-baines
Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social The man who never was but sometimes looked as though he might be. Cultural commentator for hire. Will work for food.
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social writer, editor at plough magazine, personalist, catholic.
awaiting the cossacks and the holy spirit
John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social BBC lifer since 1966, international affairs editor since 1982. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on BBC Two, BBC World & World Service. Two daughters, one son, six grandchildren, a loving wife, lots of books, and an Irish terrier. Defender of the Oxford comma.
New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social Free thinking in an age of extremes. Follow for independent journalism on ideas, culture, politics and science. Published since 1885.
www.newhumanist.org.uk
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
INDIGNITY pre-orders: https://linktr.ee/leaypi
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
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Erica Wagner @ericawgnr.bsky.social Writer, reader, cook, friend, lover. Contributing Editor, Observer. Contributing Writer for the New Statesman, Consulting Lit Ed for Harper's Bazaar. Podcaster, various. www.ericawagner.co.uk
Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
Aeon Magazine @aeon.co Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
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
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. at the European Institute, LSE. Research and teach the political economy of the state; green transition; regenerative economics. Optimist. Alarmed by people who lack self-doubt...
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
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.
Patrick Maguire @patrickmaguire.bsky.social Chief political commentator, The Times
David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social Broadcaster, author, journalist, dad, grandpa, heroic Substacker to be found at davidaaronovitch.substack.com. Recovering tweeter
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social Paris-based writer of European allsorts at the Guardian
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk
We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
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
Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Henry Porter @henrycporter.bsky.social Writer, activist, fundraiser, and occasional painter. Latest book The Enigma Girl. 'SURPRISING, ENGROSSING, WITH A BLAZING MORAL ENERGY' Rory Stewart. Buy here: https://tinyurl.com/5t2tafyk Latest charity project: tents for Gaza (event coming early 2025)
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social Philosopher, writer, podcaster. Co-founder of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Author of A Little History of Philosophy and many other books. Weekly column Everyday Philosophy in The New World magazine. Consultant editor Aeon.co and Five Books.
Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Politics & Public Policy, London School of Economics & Political Science.
Interests - digital era governance, democratic audit & renewal, theories of the state, elections & party competition.
And in open social science, universities.
Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social EX Editor, the Guardian/ prospect magazine. The New World. ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Geoff Andrew @geoff-andrew.bsky.social Film critic, lecturer, programmer. Mainly about music, movies, art, politics. Views my own. Writes at greater length at geoffandrew.com
Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social Foreign correspondent, columnist, campaigner, co-founder Africa Express, citizen of the world and a bit more besides…
Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social and Finders, Keepers from @saltpublishing.com
Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
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.
Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Chief political commentator and executive
editor, Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/robert-shrimsley
https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/robert-shrimsley/
Andrew Brown @seatrout.bsky.social Writer, journalist, — attempting simultaneous disillusionment and wonder. ex Guardian, ex Independent. Orwell Prize winner. Interested in trout, Christianity, tech, literature, journalism, Sweden, history. Less and less interested in politics of any sort. 
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/
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
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Andrew Kelly @andrewkelly.bsky.social Writer, festival director, interviewer. Projects: Future City Film Festival, John Boorman, John Berger, William Gray Walter, revisiting J B Priestley, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel book. Writing/ interviewing/ editing: https://festivalofideas.substack.com
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social Bourgeois interests, proletarian instincts.
Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social Endotic traveller. Recent books: Blood Feather 2023; Ghost Stations 2025. FRSL. Prof French & Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
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