Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social Single malt geek
Agatha Christie head
Arsenal fan
Purveyor of general Englishness
King Rama VI reader
European federalism proponent
Pro Canada
Displaced Inselaffe
(In that order)
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Twonks @twonks.bsky.social Cartoons and comics by Steve Nelson.
Manager: michael.krell@sixteenth.com
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science at WashU • NASA Planetary Data System Geosciences Node Director • Explorers Club EC50 • eeps.washu.edu/people/paul-byrne • he/him
Ben Canham @bencanham.bsky.social Official Account for Ben Canham
| Online Activist | Featured on ITV News
and STV News I love raising awareness
for autism. I love all of my friends.
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
@dorsetbirder.bsky.social @dorsetbirder.bsky.social BoPH Osprey Project Volunteer
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Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social The myths of Ancient Greece still echo and shape the modern world. This is their story.
APPLE https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=657111fc0e544740
Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social Lover of nature; fungi,native wildflower meadows, native woodlands, and all that depends on them.
Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social You will find me around the middle of the room. Outward looking because if you are not you get isolated and stop learning
NHS for many years before retiring. Read a lot, listen a lot.
Dovestones Reservoir ⬆️
I don't have access to DMs so don't bother!
Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social I do comedy, lecturing, journalism, radio and writing. I like beaches, books and buildings. Probably writing a bit too much about ovarian cancer at the moment because of reasons.
Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social Michael Smith. Author, printmaker, translator & illustrator of medieval romances. Whimsy, art. Published by Wilton Square Books. PhD research University of York. Follows the Blackburn Rovers. All photos mine unless on shared posts www.mythicalbritain.co.uk
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB
Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk 
Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social Working class writer and pork pie hat wearer. Lover of bees, beer, books and the buntryside. I'm the man who made Michael Sheen cry 😬
Joe Heenan @joe-heenan.bsky.social Award losing stand up comedian
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
Pic: J. Kovalík
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
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in Dorset and SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu President of the @ec.europa.eu
Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart. 🇪🇺
Herdwick Sheep @herdwicksheep.bsky.social Iconic, smiley sheep from the Lake District, Cumbria, just spreading the love
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Come along on a Herdwick Experience!
Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social Fun, nature, etymology, garden, daily trivia to brighten up your feed from the grind of daily claptrap, garbage & piffle 🌿 Cheltenham, UK & occasional Norway 🌿 Trigeminal neuralgia 💪🥳💗 All my photos, no pilfering🏆
LifuX @lifux.bsky.social The cats are in charge, we just document it. 😼
Chaos is our specialty.
Global nonsense headquarters.
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Store : www.teepublic.com/user/lifux
European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk Help us build a future in Europe.
Join European Movement UK today.
Atam Verdi @atamverdi.bsky.social Yorkshireman, business owner. Economics, housing, regeneration, communities, equality + equity.
Alan Davies @alandaviescomic.bsky.social Book here https://linktr.ee/alandaviesbook?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a7a5ef2c-1017-4662-b4ed-1858460b7546
Stand up tours of the UK, Ireland here alandavies.live and New Zealand here
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Ella Maillart @ellamaillart.bsky.social It is always our own Self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that Self, the better.
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 
June-Mitchell @june-mitchell.bsky.social Born 1937, older I get the more I want to know. Value fairness and honesty. Family first. North east England
Kassandra @kasst.bsky.social Kassandra ,if you followed me on that other place ,pleased to find you here🦋
Political cartoons are favourite
Retired hairdresser practicing politics,not right or left,mostly in the middle, rather be in the mountains
#thereisnoplanetB
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
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 🐕🦺
Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social Paul. Dog owner, lover of ancient languages, bibliophile. Unsolicited DMs are likely to lead to a block.
The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social Reader, writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler, selenophile. Distracted by birds. 🐦⬛
Supports the RNLI.
theunhurriedreader.substack.com
@the_unhurried_reader on Instagram
#InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives
#Nordlichtberaubt
John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.
Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social Welcome to my shiny new echo chamber… hoping here that I can keep it clean and tidy and ‘woke’.
IRL - lawyer (of the lefty, campaigning variety).
Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social The former Conservative MP for Dorset East.🇬🇧
Nicola Bigwood | Proofreader & Copyeditor | Former Translator ✍️📚 @nicolabigwood.uk Proofreader & copyeditor of fiction & non-fiction, with background as a translator into English from French & German • CIEP Advanced Professional member • She/her • https://linktr.ee/nicolabigwood • Learning Italian and Gaelic… slowly!📍Scotland 🏴
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
@frankgardner.bsky.social @frankgardner.bsky.social 
Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social Funniest Joke Edinburgh Fringe 2019-2022. Comedian, kids book author, illustrator, Art person. All my stuff is here: https://linktr.ee/Ofalafel
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
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
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk MP for #WaveneyValley.
Former charity CEO.
Need to get in touch?
📧 waveneyvalleyoffice@parliament.uk
https://linktr.ee/AdrianRamsay
https://www.adrianramsay.org.uk
In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social The life and times of Steve the otter...
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard, I sell books
Books read: 91/100
📚 Feeding the Monster
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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 
Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social
Hold your plans lightly in your hands
Reversing uphill in Devon lanes since time immemorial so you don’t have to
Full of wit. Wit, I said
#95%Dartmoor #5%civilised
#MS #formerlawyer #TheArchers #dementiacarer #FitsofRage™️
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Malcolm LibDem🔶🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @malcolmdw.bsky.social OUR FLAGS! NOT THEIRS! North East England - Christian, Lib Dem, love family, travel, reading, food, laughter, classical music and wildlife. Committed to social justice, Europe and a fairer, more sustainable world. I follow back. Will you?
GreenPartyHan @greenpartyhan.bsky.social Green MP for Gorton and Denton
Plumber, runner, multiple greyhounds 🏃🏼♀️🔧🐾
Roz Savage MP @rozsavage.bsky.social 🔶 Liberal Democrat MP for South Cotswolds
📧 roz.savage.mp@parliament.uk
💻 www.rozsavagemp.uk
👉🏻 Promoted by Liberal Democrats on behalf of Roz Savage, Watermoor Point, Watermoor Road, Cirencester
@ecosiasearch.bsky.social @ecosiasearch.bsky.social 
Claretmad @claretmad.bsky.social Leftish OAP. Anti Hunt. Fan of the wonderful Deaf School. Reside in the leafy English countryside. I believe in everything the Tories/Reform hate. Not particularly proud of Britain at this time.
Matt Forde @matt-forde.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, radioer.
RNOH Charity and BCRT Ambassador.
#NFFC and ham sandwich fan.
Chordoma survivor.
Stoma owner.
Tickets: https://www.mattforde.com/mailing-list
DJFeckwit @whistlingdaffy.bsky.social Writes a bit. Swears a bit. Getting better. Apparently toxic.
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Mhairi Black @mhairiblack.bsky.social Writer, Comedian, Former MP….wild, I know. Loving trying new things and having a laugh 💃 🏳️🌈🏴🏳️⚧️
Cameron Thomas MP 🔶 @libdemcam.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury.
The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social We expose Big Tech's harms to democracy.
Parents to The Real Facebook Oversight Board & Independent Sage.
Our newsletters:
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You can also find us at https://the-citizens.com
Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren) @gfrancie.bsky.social I make dinner & swear too much. I think that's all you need to know. 'Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives' published by Deixis Press is available now She/her
Dawn Butler MP @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Brent East
First elected African-Caribbean UK Minister
Chair London PLP
Vice Chair Women's PLP
Author
Columnist
Great laugh and karaoke queen
https://linktr.ee/dawnbutlerbrent
Just Aubrey @aubreyhepburn92.bsky.social Proudly Woke. Lefty. European 🇪🇺 based in UK. Anti fascist. Anti racist. LGBTQ+ ally 🌈
Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social Veteran Remainer 🇪🇺 UK & Germany 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 • Posts on #Brexit & #Politics • NON PARTISAN • ANTI-FASCIST • PRO FACTS • PRO WOKE 🏳️🌈 • (Slightly dyslexic, so sorry about the typos🙈) #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦🕊
SharonB. @sharonthecatmum.bsky.social Cat & Gardening enthusiast 😺🪴🌱🌸
Scottish living in 🏴
❤️ Celtic Alliance 🇮🇪🏴🏴
Independence is a must 💛 💚 🎃✊
Democracy wins
Rejoin EU
No ☢️
🚫 DMs
🇺🇦 🇵🇸
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Stacy W @stacyw.bsky.social Retired lawyer, wife, mom to Dr. Nick, soprano. She/her. I have no use for Trump or his MAGA minions.
The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social Want to know the 411 & keep up with all the hot gossip? Look no further. ATP/WTA news, history & memes.
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Ezra Starr @burninggiraffe.bsky.social Antifascist. #Orioles. #Alcaraz. #Anisimova. LGBTQ+ friendly. Huge #tennis and #baseball fan. Civics & Economics teacher. Antagonist of AIPAC Democrats. Liberty, Constitution, and Empathy.
Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.
Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social This is the bot for TrumpActionTracker.info - a website that documents the actions, statements, and plans of President Trump and his administration that echo those of authoritarian regimes.
This bot automatically posts the latest actions.
Hannah @spansmarie.bsky.social Politics, history, tennis, music, film, ME/CFS & LC 🇪🇺🏴
Listening: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
Reading: Secret History by Donna Tartt
I'd rather build bridges than walls
Bobby Seagull MBE @bobbyseagull.bsky.social School teacher, Maths Appeal podcast, FT & the i newspaper columnist, West Ham ambassador, author Life-Changing Magic of Numbers
showplanr.com/show/bobby-seagulls-escape-from
Jack Baddams @jabaddams.bsky.social Bird ringer, watcher and nest finder based in north Derbyshire 🐦
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info Coder and caver with an enthusiasm for Border Collies and maps.
Creator of CaveView (3d cave survey web application)
https://aardgoose.github.io/CaveView.js/
Occasional contributor to https://threejs.org and Firefox.
@stephentignor.bsky.social @stephentignor.bsky.social Writer at First Ball In
Author of High Strung
https://stevetignor.substack.com/
Ben Rothenberg @benrothenberg.bsky.social Please do check out my tennis writing, BOUNCES, at benrothenberg.com
Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social Husband to Renee. Father to Andrew and Eleanor. Grandfather to Winnie and Indy. Founder. Writer. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated Beechcraft pilot. AgainstAllEnemies.net
Bobby Funderburk @bfunster.bsky.social Gay Father/Grandfather Copilot life-Rusty🐶/History nerd/HP⚡️fan/Tennis🎾fan/Drama free/Equality4all🇺🇦🏳🌈
Walks In Camera 🇺🇦🌳 @walksincamera.bsky.social Walks in parks, forests, woodlands and city streets! YouTuber and photo taker 📷🎥. 🌲🌳🚶🌲🚶♀️🌳🌲🏬🎒 All photos and film footage by Walks In Camera ©
Croydon, UK.
Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon | Chair of the Health & Social Care Select Committee | Here because Musk ruined the ‘other (social) place’ | she/her | Promoted by the Lib Dems, Unit C5 Grange Court, Barton Lane, OX14 3NB
Lord Jeffrey of Nottingham #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇬🇱 @onemoregoodman.bsky.social Ageing hippy, left-leaning, vegetarian, humanist. We need a much kinder and better informed world. Brexit was an act of national self-harm, as was electing Trump. Passionate about gender equality & women's rights. There IS a climate crisis.
Joe @ranger013.bsky.social I don't do DM's. Love most animals with legs and my kids. Profile pics: the small pic is one of my orchids, the background is where I used to live. I’ll just say that it’s pretty. For the record I'm a male heterosexual who likes to be free from oppression.
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Heidrun @heidrunmead.bsky.social Stranger in a strange land. Antifa.
The Duck of Mestwinster @joebloggs571.bsky.social 💚🌎
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Kermit the Bunny hugging frog meets Bobby Drop Tables.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Instant block for Brexards, Trumpanzees, Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, AntiVaccer etc.
〓〓 Mike Bossingham @mikebossingham.bsky.social Retired Methodist Minister and Rep for Unite. Also chair of North Norfolk TUC Group. Treasurer for several organisations.
Member of the Green Party and ex Mayor of Cromer. Is Cornish hence the flag
Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social Dad Writer Editor Researcher Sustainability (esp cotton) Some history Long 'sanity' project "The Charge of the Lightweight Brigade", a satire on the idiots of Brexit ('C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre: c'est de la folie') Rejoiner Liberal 
@liammcreanan.bsky.social @liammcreanan.bsky.social