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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social Author of Electric Wizards and Off The Ground.
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Lauren Kreisler @laurenkreisler.bsky.social Director of Brand @ Official Charts, fan of a mid-tempo banger, proud northerner.
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Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social Journalist, including property for the FT. Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. heawood.substack.com
Stephen Kearse @kearse.bsky.social Journalist, critic, and author of novels Post, Liquid Snakes, and In the Heat of the Light.
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
Kate Hutchinson @katehutchinson.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, pod-maker (she/her) | Creator of The Last Bohemians podcast | www.thelastbohemians.substack.com | www.katehutchinson.co.uk
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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social Aw, here it goes…
Patrick Harris @patrickmharris.bsky.social A Boston-based pop culture encyclopedia living in the center of a “Broadway-Bravo-Britney/Beyonce-Disney-Hollywood” Venn Diagram.
Tom @tomph84.bsky.social 
Iain Macintosh @iainmacintosh.bsky.social Doing a bit of radio @wearetrackradio
Attitude Magazine @attitudemag.bsky.social UK & Europe’s best-selling LGBTQ magazine
Stuart Heritage @heritage.bsky.social I write books for children and bald men
Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social Media Editor for @theguardian.com. Likes ≠ endorsements, obv. Story? 👇👇👇
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