Labour for Trans Rights @labour4transrights.bsky.social Fighting for the trans community in and out of The Labour Party 🏳️⚧️💪
https://www.labourfortransrights.co.uk
Join us today: https://ko-fi.com/labourfortransrights
Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com Substack: mjrobbins.com
Podcast: abundancepod.com
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social Comedian'n'writer'n'podcaster. TED Speaker. Take my coffee like I take my power.
SophieChapmanTalent / SueTerryVoices
👉🏾 https://linktr.ee/athenakugblenu
📕 Buy History's Most Epic FIBS & FAILS!
🎧 Bust or Trust or PROcrastinate
📺 youtube.com/@innitfactory
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Robin Hawkes @robhawkes.bsky.social 🐙 DataViz at @octopus.energy
⚡️ Obsessed with maps and energy
✨ Creator of ViziCities
👨💻 Previously Wood Mackenzie & devrel at Mozilla
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobama.com
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social 25 | ✝️ 🏳️🌈
Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social Centre-left politics. Fan of AS Roma and the New York Mets, for my sins. Nerd stuff
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social 🌹✊ 📸 | academic researcher | average photographer | all views my own etc.
William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social Research, technology and politics.
Newsletter https://bit.ly/3AELZDu
Foundations of AI https://bit.ly/3WiYJab
Law https://bit.ly/40YL1fU
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
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
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
*ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG
📍 CLT
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
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics/statistics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply.
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
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
Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. UK regional journalist of the year 2025. 4 x Specialist Regional Journalist of the Year winner. Orwell Prize and Paul Foot nominee. Proud dad who loves overpriced craft ale.
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
Subscribe on Substack: Arguably.uk
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
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
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
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
Buy my book👇
https://tr.ee/ElementalBookshopOrg
https://tr.ee/ElementalAmazon
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If you don't want to buy my book, you could buy me a coffee👇
https://ko-fi.com/snellarthur
John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social Economist and occasional politics dabbler. Working on a project to improve labour markets. Associate fellow, Centre for European Reform. Visiting fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Bath University.
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social Columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times, specialising in Scottish affairs. Also, co-host of The Ponsonby & Massie podcast, available on all pod-platforms.
Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social Professor of Politics.
Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social Lib Dem Life Peer. Party President 2020-5. Author, "Polling UnPacked" / http://www.theweekinpolls.co.uk / https://libdemnewswire.substack.com / imprint + privacy http://markpack.org.uk/legal-privacy / he/him
Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social Professor of economics at UWE Bristol. Chair of Post-Keynesian Economics Society. Progressive Economy Forum council member. Interested in macro, finance, banking, climate change, inequality, demographics.
https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/JoMichell
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/
Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social 📈Journalist 📖 Writer 🎥 Film-maker 🤷🏻♂️ Public Speaker 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier 📖 https://t.co/BjHB4lzjMG
Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.
I conduct investigative journalism and help people better understand Wales/Cymru.
You sign up to my newsletter here: willhaywardwales.substack.com
Columnist at The Guardian.
Emma Burnell @emmaburnell.bsky.social Editor of LabourList. Playwright. Cool aunt.
Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Interested in all things parliament, government, and constitution at the Institute for Government. PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org King’s Counsel. Serious about Law, but only about Law.
General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook.
Trustee of FRU
Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board
Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.
Dom White @domw.bsky.social Chief economist at Absolute Strategy Research in London. But all of the nonsense I spout on here is mine and mine alone. RTs are not endorsements unless they are.
Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social Managing Director, Bridges for Communities, supporting people to live well together
📍Bristol 🇬🇧
Posts on: Bristol, community cohesion & social inclusion, climate & nature, deliberative democracy, public engagement and positive news.
Views my own.
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).
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social Always ask yourself, what would Lord Diplock think?
https://spinninghugo.wordpress.com/
Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social Day job: climate change, heat pumps, energy at Nesta
Other stuff: low-fi economics on growth, cities & economic geography, general UK policy, occasional basic charts
Bristol, he/him, lots of parenting / caring.
Personal account.
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/
Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social Director of Research at ThinkLabour. Interested in politics and data. Interested in how people think about politics and data.
Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social 🗳️ Scottish politics & elections | 📊 Quant social & political science | 💼 Associate Advisory Director @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social |📜 Associate Member @ccc-research.bsky.social | 🖋️ in various publications
Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social I write the newsletter, Lines To Take, bringing you one big story of the day, every day.
Sign up for free: https://www.linestotake.com/
I like human rights and French cuisine.
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
Joe Sarling @joesarling.bsky.social Economist working in capital markets ▪ Big on placemaking, housing, regeneration, land policy ▪ Inspired by systems thinking and servant leadership ▪ FRSA
❤️ cycling & running in the Peak District & on Zwift 🚵🏻♂️🏃
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
JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social Communications Lead, Persuasion UK/ Co-editor, Renewal Journal/ Author, "No Second Chances: The Inside Story of the Campaign for a Second EU Referendum"
Squidge Rugby @squidgerugby.bsky.social Here on the condition people can be normal about Antoine Dupont
Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social Tax nerd, still atrocious at amusing profiles
Made my West End debut as a duck-billed platypus
Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social Current affairs, politics, education and miscellany. All views my own.
Substack at edrith.co.uk
BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social Equities, ETFs, Rates, FX trader. also 🎥, 📺, 🏏 and the 80's. imposters get blocked and reported, and I never DM re crypto (which is the ultimate moron 'asset').
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
Calum Weir @cwp-weir.bsky.social Research Manager at ThinkLabour 📈 - Opinions all my own - He/Him
Running: www.pollingpolis.co.uk
Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social I’m that guy that looks just like this that did that tweet that made you laugh that one time. UK based.
James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com Co-founder of @protect.earth, a registered charity (England & Wales) creating/restoring woodlands and other knackered ecosystems to sequester carbon and fight the biodiversity crisis. Electric van/boat life, bikepacking, and boycotting fossil fuels. he/him
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
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.”
Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social Nottingham-born West Londoner. Author of Flip Chart Fairy Tales blog. Patient #NFFC supporter.
https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/
Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social Sea-level and tidal scientist. Liverpool, UK.
Opinions own!
Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
Rob Shum @robshum.bsky.social Public policy ( #climate / energy policy, more specifically ) & IR prof (but also ex-🇨🇦 trade diplomat). PoliSciSky 🗺️, EnergySky 🔌💡, & GreenSky 🌱. Cf. same handle on also-ran microblog-sites.
Book in banner now available: link.springer.com/9783032245755
Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social politic_animal from the Musk shop.
Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2
Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social Politics, policy, public attitudes. Work in polling and comms. Director, Persuasion UK. ex- Shelter, civil service and various other things. 🏳️🌈
https://persuasionuk.org/about
https://strongmessagehere.substack.com/
Lizzi Collinge MP @lizzicollinge.bsky.social Labour MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, general interest nerd.
Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social Known for other things but mainly use this to talk about video games to be honest with you.
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. 🥑🇺🇦
Revan @revan.eurosky.social Chair of the Malachor V Institute on Posting Madness
The Dark Side of the Posts is a pathway to many replies some consider to be unnatural. This medicine can’t fix stab. Not a real doctor or Sith Lord
Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social Writes & Hosts the It Could Be Said substack & podcast; https://itcouldbesaid.substack.com/
Has contributed to a variety of outlets on politics, sport or pop culture
Contact email is w.cooling[at]gmail.com
All opinions his own & not of any employer
Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social Former Lib Dem London Mayoral candidate. Breaking Putin's censorship
@ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social
ʟɪɴᴇꜱ @lines.ink The survivors, brought to their senses by the disaster, gave chase to the woman: she, laughing in mockery, changed herself into a wren and flew away.
Anya Martin @anyamartin.bsky.social Housing affordability wonk & number cruncher. Policy Lead @ YIMBY Alliance. Former director of PricedOut.
Andrew R @excelpope.net Shortly to be replaced by Microsoft Co-pilot
Peter Taylor @ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social 40, he/him 🧙
Narrative Designer for Sports Interactive on Football Manager 26 ⚽
IWGB & Lib Dem member ✊🔶
Views solely mine, etc. 😉
https://ctrl-the-narrative.com ✍️
Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social Democracy Programme Lead / Senior Researcher - mySociety/TheyWorkForYou. Also for some reason Postman Pat reviews.
John @johnlk.bsky.social @johnlk_80 on twitter. Comics, history, politics and such.
Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social Millennial cliche with strong retired museum curator energy
Lives for the memes. *Mass transit enthusiast*
Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social Political correspondent for PA, former local journalist, amateur sportsman, ex-historian, other things
🥑🗽🏗🏘️ Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O @gaylussite.himbonomics.com 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴. Analytics engineer by day, ageist queer by night.
Long form posts on housing, urbanism and progress: www.himbonomics.com
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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Kill the boy, and let the woman be born.
If I detatched your quote, it’s because you annoyed me but I didn’t want you to be dogpiled
(29 | trans | British | left-liberal | disabled | she/her)
https://backloggd.com/u/Julianna/
Adam Becket @adambecket.bsky.social News editor online and in print for Cycling Weekly. Ex Procycling mag. Likely to be at a bike race, in the pub or looking at paintings. Bristol based.
Leftback @leftback.bsky.social Chelsea and very socially liberal politics, so basically you'll get angry at something.
JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social South West England via Spain and the Midlands - but made in NW5.
Trying hard not to give in to despair