UK Prime Minister Updates @downingstreet.bsky.social Reporting the latest updates from Downing Street and Prime Minister @andy-burnham.bsky.social. Here until Downing Street setup an official account.
Ian Musgrave @ianmusgrave.bsky.social Cheshire-based mediocre tennis, pickleball and ukulele player
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. Parliamentary candidate for the Clacton By-Election, 2026. Sane.
Promoted by Count Binface, at PO Box 818, Tonbridge, TN9 9YF
Rich @rich-bryant.uk token evil teammate
Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social Political economy & place‑based policy
Fellow of things at Teesside University
That's not Teesside in the banner photo
https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/nicholas-gray
Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social Philosophical Psychology is a journal by Taylor and Francis aimed at developing and strengthening the links between philosophy and the psychological sciences.
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/
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP @drrosena.bsky.social 🌹 Labour MP for Tooting
👩⚕️ A&E Doctor
🏡 Born and raised in Tooting
📧 rosena@drrosena.co.uk "Rosena" rhymes with "tenner" (she/her)
Promoted by Tooting Labour Party, at 89 Bickersteth Road, SW17 9SH
Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. "Woke scientist" (Daily Mail). Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴. Charity trustee x2. @locastproject.bsky.social My views
World Record-breaking cyclist drianwalker.com
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social UK Editor & Presenter, ITV News. Host of ITV’s flagship Tonight programme, Good Morning Britain, LBC. 6 x Royal Television Society Award winner. *Author, Fight to the Death, out Oct ‘26.* https://geni.us/FighttotheDeath
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social Chief Executive of Total Politics Group. Writer, broadcaster, media CEO. Publisher of PoliticsHome, The House magazine, Holyrood magazine, The Parliament magazine, Civil Service World, ConservativeHome and more. Columnist for the i paper. Never a dull day.
Thomas Aubrey @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social Credit risk, infrastructure, productivity, liberalism. @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (CSEP) @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk Author & founder @ http://creditcapitaladvisory.com 歐 睿
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Early modern literature professor, University of Cambridge; climate activist. Coordinator of http://royalsocietyletter.uk and https://gmcletter.wordpress.com/ , now promoting https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- free the press!
Jess Asato MP @jessasatomp.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Lowestoft
jess.asato.mp@parliament.uk
Prosper UK @prosperuk.bsky.social A new political movement focused on growth, opportunity, and listening to people and business.
Join us: www.prosperuk.com
Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social Current affairs, politics, education and miscellany. All views my own.
Substack at edrith.co.uk
Peter York @peteryork.bsky.social NEW BOOK: 'Dead Cat on Your Table'
"Witty, alarming and persuasive, this is the handbook that progressives need. Martin Rowson’s cartoons are a treat, too." - Lindsay Mackie, Prospect Magazine
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social Recovering showbiz hack. Now in pictures/video. Up for LaserQuest with Andy C.
tash @tashldn.bsky.social Socialist, antiracist and antifascist. We came here on boats. Don’t follow if you’re transphobic. Views my own and not employers’ etc #RefugeesWelcome #BlackLivesMatter #COYS
https://dreamdeferred.org.uk
Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
➡ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities
https://linktr.ee/instituteforgov
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
Britain Elects @britainelects.com Britain's leading aggregator for polling, forecasts and election results. Run by @bwalker.uk. Est. 2013 with the late, great, Lily Jayne Summers.
Lizzi Collinge MP @lizzicollinge.bsky.social Labour MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, general interest nerd.
Neil Webster @propertycyclist.bsky.social Real estate person at my core but also migrating active travel from an interest to a purpose. Author BCO The Market Cycles. Member London Cycling Campaign, Trustee Sutton Nursing. Father to 3; husband to 1
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
Dr Alice Carvalho @dralicecarvalho.bsky.social Reimagining education so every young person can belong, be themselves, and help create the world they want to live in 🌍 | Founder, Ripple Grove Education | Mummy to a Square Peg 🕳 | Community and Educational Psychologist 🧠 | Tech Geek 🤓 | Powered by ☕️
C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
www.c20society.org.uk
Kelly Singleton @kellynell89.bsky.social Portsmouth 📍
Town Planner
News on Teesside @newsonteesside.bsky.social News on Teesside
LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social 🔓 Social sciences publisher. Equitable open access. Based at @lselibrary.bsky.social | press.lse.ac.uk
Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social A better tax system that benefits everyone in the UK. Sister organisation of @taxjusticenet.bsky.social
https://taxjustice.uk/
Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP @jeevunsandher.bsky.social 🌹 Economist MP who loves the pub
Department for Business and Trade PPS
jeevunsandher.substack.com
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
Nick Lowles @nicklowles.bsky.social Antifascist with @hopenothate. Will post about politics, cricket, travel and food
Liam Byrne MP @liambyrnemp.bsky.social 🌹MP Hodge Hill & Solihull North | Chair, Business & Trade Committee | New book! Why Populists Are Winning & How To Beat Them: https://m.cmpgn.page/wpbppt
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
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.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social 'Rage, rage against the dying of the light.'
Own views; Adult language
Rugby columnist, author & therapist
Trustee of charity Women in Sport.
Current affairs, culture, sport, & sarcasm
Pre-order The Second Half https://linktr.ee/TheSecondHalfBrianMoore
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com Economics Commentator, Financial Times; Honorary Professor of Practice, UCL Policy Lab
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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/
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
Subscribe for exclusive content in the Byline Times monthly print edition: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
Visit our website: bylinetimes.com
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
Buy my book👇
https://tr.ee/ElementalBookshopOrg
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If you don't want to buy my book, you could buy me a coffee👇
https://ko-fi.com/snellarthur
@kamilakingstone.bsky.social @kamilakingstone.bsky.social Programme lead for Defending Democracy at Spotlight on Corruption
https://linktr.ee/endcorruptionuk
Duncan Hames @duncanhames.bsky.social Director of Policy @TransparencyUK.bsky.social, governor at Westminster Foundation for Democracy, JRRT director, and former MP (2010-15). Husband to @joswinson.bsky.social, Dad to 3 boys, and recent King’s war studies MA. All views here are my own etc.
Rachel Blake MP @rachelblakemp.bsky.social Cities of London & Westminster MP, Labour and Co-operative. Email rachel.blake.mp@parliament.uk
Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social Political editor of The Observer. Email: Rachel.sylvester@observer.co.uk
@yaseminulusahin.bsky.social @yaseminulusahin.bsky.social FNRS postdoc at ULB (CeSCuP), exploring how social identities and social representations shape sense making, with a focus on conspiracy theories, populism & intergroup dynamics.
BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social Official BlueSky feed for the BPS Social Psychology Section
Follow #spsconf for conf updates & #SocialSecComt to meet the Committee
Jazmin Kane @jaz-kane.bsky.social PhD Researcher interested in social class and reducing inequalities based at the Uni of Sussex | Interested in Widening Access and Participation | Alumna of Uni of St Andrews & Canterbury Christ Church
Sara Vestergren @swedishprotests.bsky.social PhD, social psychologist at University of Reading, UK, specialising in the Psychology of crowds, collective action, and climate action. Views my own. Born at 338.7ppm
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
Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social We need to stop setting fire to the planet. Please don't DM me, I'll just block you
@teawithflorence.bsky.social @teawithflorence.bsky.social
The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk Editor of Bearly Politics. Commentator. Former NHS strategist.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social • political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6
📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social Former Lib Dem London Mayoral candidate. Breaking Putin's censorship
Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social Leading with joy. Fighting for YOU. MA Attorney General, wife and mama to Alexander & Aiden. Beyonce fan. For official updates follow @massago.bsky.social
Evan Edinger @evanedinger.bsky.social American British YouTuber
Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Investigations, writing, broadcast, newsreading, BBC Radio Newcastle etc
Editor, The Teesside Lead
🔗 https://theteessidelead.substack.com
Moby-Dick podcast:
🐳 @thewhale1851.bsky.social
Teesworks expert. Oh, and once I saw a blimp.
BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social Life's a big banana sandwich
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2188080/episodes/19192392
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com Independent news website. Only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. No paywall, no ads. All Creative Commons licensed.
Sign-up now for our free newsletter: https://theconversation.com/uk/newsletters/
This account is mostly automated.
Ant Brown @brownest-ant.bsky.social Probably easiest to start with:
Centrist Dad, then head to
Car Nerd (or Bore, if he's left to it) and finally
Posts about my industry (although I'd rather keep my specific profession out of things)
Mainly skeets/ bleets about politics and cars though.
50 Shades of Planning @50shadesofplanning.bsky.social Town and country planning is very much not a black and white endeavour.
https://pod.co/50-shades-of-planning
https://chat.whatsapp.com/FnD2Bs0ET4i4X9luVsXVMN?s=sh&p=i&mlu=0&amv=1
Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Verity Harding @verityharding.bsky.social Director, AI & Geopolitics, Uni of Cambridge | Founder, Formation Advisory | TIME100 AI | Former DeepMind, Google, UK govt | King’s Trust | Author of “AI Needs You: how we can change AI’s future and save our own” https://tinyurl.com/y4v26spa
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.
Iain Dale @iaindale.bsky.social LBC Radio presenter
Gob on a Stick
Serial book editor
Co-host of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast
Nicky Morgan @nickymorgan.bsky.social Baroness Morgan of Cotes, House of Lords & Portfolio Career in private, public & charity sectors
Tim Lord @timlord.bsky.social Energy and climate stuff, mainly. Head of Climate Change @HSBC_UK. Previously @institutegc, @beisgovuk. Views my own.
Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
JSquires @squiresjl8.bsky.social He/Him. Art. Architecture. Science. Geology. History. Always learning.
Ioan Marc Jones @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social Writer in The Guardian, The BBC, The Times, The FT, The Independent, The Spectator, the i Paper, McSweeney's, New England Review, etc.
Commissions: ioanmarcjones@proton.me
@jacktshaw.bsky.social @jacktshaw.bsky.social Director of Groundwork Research and Policy Fellow, The Productivity Institute. 'Veteran local government advisor'.
Read my Notes on Local Government Substack: https://substack.com/@notesonlocalgovernment
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Julian Jessop @julianhjessop.bsky.social Independent economist. Likes charts. IEA Economics Fellow. Schools speaker. Diploma in Law. FRSA. COYG. Views here mine only. More on website at www.julianhjessop.com. Also on substack at https://substack.com/@julianhjessop
DouglasBaldwin @douglasbaldwin.bsky.social God called me.
It was an assdial.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
Psych with Satire @simply-put-psych.bsky.social Psychology with teeth: unpacking everything from gaming quirks and cultural absurdities to authoritarian power plays and the psychology of resistance.
🎓 Empowering students with psychology tools.
🌍 Empowering people with psychological insights.
Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social Professor of psychology. Study culture and societal change, wisdom, good judgment (and lack thereof), forecasting, and new methods. Forecasting Collaborative founder | 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦 Psych Inquiry Editor. igorgrossmann.com OnWisdompodcast.com
Béatrice Sternberg, PhD @beatricesternberg.bsky.social Maîtresse de conférences en Psychologie Sociale, Associate Professor in #socialpsychology
University of Paris 8
Intergroup Relations; Stereotyping; Multiple Identities; Self and Identity
Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com Senior Markets Correspondent at the Financial Times. Previously insurance, finance, stocks, pensions, you get the idea. This is my real account: I never promote crypto or any other investment
Stories: https://www.ft.com/ian-smith
Contact: ian.smith@ft.com
Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social Housing, Rugby, Gym.
Chris / Kit @chrislochery.bsky.social "He seemed a little embarrassed to be taken so seriously."
Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social Writer and mumbler. Haunted Generation, Fortean Times, Electronic Sound, Doctor Who Magazine, Shindig, Mulgrave Audio, Wiffle Lever To Full, Scarred For Life and Summer Winos. Summat to do innit
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
Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social Bourgeois interests, proletarian instincts.