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Josh Westerling @joshwesterling.bsky.social Politics, campaigns, and public affairs at JRF - working on communities and place, and the labour market. Current home Bethnal Green, from Wycombe. West Ham ST holder. Views mine.
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Yasmin Ibison @yasminibison.bsky.social Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities and place
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William Elisabeth Cuthbert @willofwands.bsky.social Nonbinary transmasc writer/journalist with a trauma-informed Lord Byron novel WIP. Away with the fae since ‘92.
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Samara Linton @samaralinton.com Writer, Editor, Multidisciplinary Content Producer
Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography / The Colour Of Madness
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Wild in the City @wildinthecity.bsky.social Supporting people of colour to deepen relationship with nature and find belonging in UK natural settings
Natural History - Rewilding and Conservation - Woodland Living Skills - Hiking - Ecotherapy
Jen Offord @jenoff.bsky.social Writer/producer/speaker of words for https://bsky.app/profile/standardissueuk.bsky.social. Author of #TheYearOfTheRobin. Improbable Olympics & Beyonce enthusiast.- S Hannah Silvester @silvesterh.bsky.social Lecturer in French at University College, Cork. Co-founder of @subcomm.bsky.social.
Translation studies | AVT | academia-practitioner collaboration | linguistic variation in subtitling | public translation studies
Ella Darlington @elladarlington.bsky.social advisor & trustee @ https://www.bdyd.uk/
Women in PR committee '25
Tech marcomms consultant @ https://www.thoughtldr.com/
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Aidan Milan @aidanmilan.bsky.social Freelance writer and journo ✍️ Lifestyle words in HuffPost UK, Mashable, Stylist Magazine, and Metro UK. Dislikes include piña coladas and getting caught in the rain.
B @blueskybybilal.bsky.social Brought up on a Solid Diet of Reggae & Fried Plantain
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Liv Facey @livsescape.bsky.social Freelance Journalist & Producer
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Everyday Racism @everydayracism.bsky.social Anti-Racism
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Daisy J. Hung (she/her) @daisyhunguk.bsky.social Social justice advocate, writer, embroidery artist. Debut Nonfiction - I AM NOT A TOURIST: Conversations on Being British Chinese (out March 2025). Agent: Imogen Morrell, Greene & Heaton
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Chloë Ashby @chloeashby.bsky.social Author of FAMILY FRIENDS (coming July), SECOND SELF and WET PAINT. Words on art, books and culture in the Times, Guardian, Spectator, TLS et al.
Rosemary Richings @rosemaryrichings.bsky.social Writer, editor, speaker #Neurodiversity. Author (2 #Dyspraxia books): “Stumbling Through Space & Time: Living Life With Dyspraxia” & “Studying with Dyspraxia”. #Neurodivergent & living without a #Thyroid. https://linktr.ee/rosemary_richings
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
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Azeem Rafiq @azeemrafiq.bsky.social Author ✍️ Ex Professional Cricketer 🏏
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Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social Lead Politics Presenter, Sky News
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch + Remember Me? podcast. My book "OUT NOW" is out in September. Dyslexic / Autistic.
Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Journalist. Speaker. Writer. Commentator.
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Society. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture. The personal. The structural.
Editor in Chief, Byline Times.
hardeep@bylinetimes.com / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now 
Megha Mohan @meghamohan.bsky.social Author of HERLANDS: lessons from societies where women make the rules
Diyora Shadijanova @thediyora.bsky.social work in progressive comms, occasional journalist and writer 🌿
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Jem Collins @jemcollins.co.uk Editor of Journo Resources, but probably swimming. She/her. 🏳️🌈
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Barbara Speed @barbaraspeed.bsky.social Deputy head of opinion @theGuardian.com
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social Gay with husband and a dog called Dusty. Left wing due to life experience. Transphobes not welcome. All the man, all the man you need. From Stoke and Lancashire but living in glorious Londonistan! he/him. Vote Green.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Chanté Joseph @chantayyjayy.bsky.social Formerly known as CEO of Yelling (RIP)
ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social journalist. gobshite. chaos merchant. tree obsessive. not necessarily in that order.
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Oli Franklin-Wallis @olifranklinwallis.bsky.social Writer. Words in the Guardian, GQ, NYT, WIRED, etc. Author of Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, And Why It Matters
Eleanor Longman-Rood @elongmanrood.bsky.social Digital Editor, @theneweuropean.bsky.social
Hen Cowen @hencowen.bsky.social Comms in cricket, Ipswich apologist. (They/them)
Phil Walker @philwisden.bsky.social WCM editor-in-chief and other cameos
Nick Wallis @nickwallis.bsky.social Journalist. Author of Depp v Heard: the unreal story and The Great Post Office Scandal. Sex is corporeal. Gender is performative. 
Georgie Heath @georgieheath27.bsky.social Multi-Sports broadcaster/commentator/journalist
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Charlene White @charlenewhite.bsky.social Anchor: Loose Women and ITV News
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social Just a journalist, actor, broadcaster, singer, dreamer (in no particular order)… rep Red Talent Management. AuDHer 🧠 Views my own 💭 ✨
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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social Author of The Sunday Times' book of the week How To Kill A Language, all about language loss and linguicide. I have won and lost a bunch of journalism awards too but more importantly I won Xmas University Challenge twice and Rosalía follows me on TikTok
Jamie Lopez @jamielopez.bsky.social Editor, Southport Lead. Writer, everywhere
The Lead @theleaduk.bsky.social The Lead is a lean, mean mag on politics, culture and everything in between.
Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
Hannah Jane Parkinson @ladyhaja.bsky.social ✍🏻 Journalist: The Guardian, Observer, elsewhere
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social Whitehall Editor for the Observer & chief investigative reporter for BBC R4's The Naked Week. Politics, investigations and taramasalata
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism from North West England. Regulated by IMPRESS
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Daniel Hewitt @danielhewittitv.bsky.social Investigations Editor: ITV News. Author: Left to Rot (2026) out now.
Presenter: The Trapped (podcast). Make documentaries, including Surviving Squalor (ITV). West Brom fan.
Beth Rigby @bethrigby.bsky.social Political Editor, Presenter and Podcaster, Sky News. RTS Political Journalist of the Year. Electoral Dysfunction podcast out every Friday 
Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social Author, Campaigner, Broadcaster.
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
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Michaela Makusha @michaelamakusha.bsky.social journalist: Black Ballad, The Guardian, Observer, Glamour, The New World, EE72
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social North of England correspondent at the Guardian. Mostly here to make bad jokes
Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social Disability rights & sausage pics. Journalist, commentator and DWP botherer. Author of Ramping Up Rights She/they.
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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
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social Deputy ed at Inside Housing
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