Ai Weiwei @aiww.bsky.social 
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Aeon Magazine @aeon.co Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
Extraordinary Books @extraordinarybooks.bsky.social We're for readers, not for profit.
https://linktr.ee/extraordinary_books
Opera North @operanorth.co.uk 💪 Making Opera Vital
📍 Based in Leeds, touring the North and beyond
🎟 Discounted/free tickets for Under 30s 
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay. 
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff.
Rants about stately homes here:
https://susannahwalker.substack.com
Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social Architectural Photographer on a camper-van-camino. 📸🚐🏛️ 🎨
Architecture, Art, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture, Genius Loci Digest.
Links: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshall-bio/
Digest: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co
John-Paul Flintoff @jp.flintoff.org Writer and artist.
Portraits:
Flintoff.org/contain-multitudes
Latest book:
Flintoff.org/speccy-breakdown
🗞️ ex FT Magazine writer and editor. Bylines: Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times
Agent: Jaime Marshall
Signal: jpflintoff.11
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety.bsky.social Founded in 1997, the Ruskin Society celebrates the life, work and legacy of the Victorian art critic and social thinker John Ruskin. ruskinsociety.uk
Design Council @designcouncil.bsky.social The UK’s national strategic advisor for design. Making life better by design.
linktr.ee/designcouncil 
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
CommonGroundOrgUK @commongroundorguk.bsky.social The billionaires and their media are using hate and fear to divide communities and win power. We believe there’s more that unites than divides us and we’re having the conversations that prove it. www.commongroundorg.co.uk
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Writer
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social Emmy-award-winning journalist
https://lukemcgee.substack.com/
luke@luke-mcgee.com
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social Older artiste.
He/Him
https://www.markthomasinfo.co.uk
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
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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.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Ned Glasier @nedglasier.com “A leading force for change for theatre and teenagers” #Stage100
Co-creation | Young People | Change-making | Facilitation | Consultancy
www.nedglasier.com
www.linkedin.com/in/nedglasier
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
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social Writer on the aristocracy, big houses, old money; author of HEIRS AND GRACES, a history of the modern aristocracy, which is out now! Views my own, yours for £. edoughty92@gmail.com
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453305/heirs-and-graces-by-doughty-eleanor/
Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social Art Critic The Observer. Critic of the Year 2024. Thunderclap - Book of 2024, @SaltireBook, Non-Fiction Winner @WritersPrize. On Chapel Sands, The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks. Rep @pew_literary
The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social Our experts bring you crucial art stories from around the world.
📍London / New York
House Historian @househistorian.bsky.social Historian • author • speaker • TV consultant • presenter. Specialist in researching the history of houses. Otherwise known as Mel Backe-Hansen. Books incl. #AHouseThroughTime and #HouseHistories Rep #PastPreservers http://www.house-historian.co.uk/
Nikki Belfield @nikkibelfield.bsky.social Political communications and campaigning professional.
Trans ally, writer, mum, trustee and Labour Party member.
Always learning.
TAP (Trans Allies and Parents) - Sheffield @tap-sheffield.bsky.social 
Andrew Rawnsley @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social Chief Political Commentator & Associate Editor, The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/contributor/andrew-rawnsley
ruth mackenzie @ruthmackenzie.bsky.social Loves art, culture, creative industries, politics, climate-action, equity, feminism, sunsets, London, Paris, Adelaide, Arts Minister @dcms @ukgovernment
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
@orlynatasha.bsky.social @orlynatasha.bsky.social Artist that gets way too obsessed with tv shows… and Florence Pugh
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Bridget Whyte @bridgetwhyte.bsky.social CEO of The UK Association for Music Education - Music Mark, but all comments/posts are my own opinion.
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Jamie Bristow @jamiebristow.bsky.social Writer, policy advisor, public speaker integrating inner and outer transformation towards a resilient and regenerating world. Searching for the words that can be heard in the places they most need to be said. 
Walking Forest @walkingforest4.bsky.social A 10 year artwork that culminates in the planting of a new intentional woodland by 2028, marking the connection between women, activism and trees. Visit our website: https://www.walkingforest.co.uk/
Fran Baker @bakerfran.bsky.social Head of Archive & Library at Chatsworth in Derbyshire
Yorkshire Sculpture Park @yspsculpture.bsky.social Yorkshire Post Awards Tourist Attraction of the Year Award and Culture Award 2023
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2014
Book tickets online
ysp.org.uk
barrytryan @barrytryan.bsky.social unsanctioned ramblings. makes films and tv,(from Dead Man’s Shoes to Everybody’s Talking About Jamie to The Night Manager s2), plays RPGs like BiTD, WFRP. he/him
Debbie Howard @debbiehoward.bsky.social Writer of scripts. Director of Film & TV. Founder of Big Buddha Films. Bafta member. Repped by Andrew Mills at Revolution Talent. Championing women in film &TV.
Safe:
https://youtu.be/Wbc4zaew1ic?si=UxBsSYc6wxdJQPkD
www.bigbuddhafilms.co.uk
Music in the Round @musicintheround.bsky.social One of the UK's leading promoters of chamber music
Based in Sheffield at the unique Playhouse at The Crucible
- Box Office 0114 249 6000
www.musicintheround.co.uk/whats-on
Edward Docx @edwarddocx.bsky.social Novelist -- Picador UK, Houghton Mifflin US.
Screenwriter -- lately on Slow Horses.
Journalist -- mainly for NS and The Guardian.
New here. Getting it together. Probably need some interactions. Thanks for following.
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Tom Hirons @hironstom.bsky.social Writes poetry - Sometimes a Wild God, Nettle-Eater, The Queen of Heaven, At the Orphans’ Door, etc.
Teaches poetics
Runs vision fasts
Walks about
Father of two beautiful, wild sons
Read my work at www.tomhirons.com and buy it at www.feralangels.com
Olly Wainwright @ollywainwright.bsky.social Architecture and design critic of the @theguardian.com
oliver.wainwright@theguardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliver-wainwright
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy @savewrightflwbc.bsky.social We facilitate the preservation and maintenance of the remaining structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright through education, advocacy and technical services.
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
Architectual Icons @architecturalicons.bsky.social The largest selection of architectural illustration products on the web https://architectural-icons.com artwork by @anfurman.bsky.social
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social Writer and editor on architecture. Bit of a thing for industrial archaeology and historic modernism. Book "About Architecture: An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings" published by Yale.
Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social Six museums and historic sites across the city, creating life-shaping, eye-opening, joy-filled memories with you ✨
Rowan Moore @rowanmoore.bsky.social Architecture critic, The Observer
New edition of Property out in January 
Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social Readers and former staff campaigning against the rushed transfer (and paywalling) of Guardian title The Observer to loss-making digital startup Tortoise media.
Help by reposting updates. 🙏
Official NUJ account here: @gonuj.org
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Hugo Burge Foundation @hugobfoundation.bsky.social An arts charity based in the Scottish Borders dedicated to supporting and inspiring creativity in everyone. 
Ezra Nadav Sturman @ezranadav.bsky.social 🎗️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Coaching LGBTIQ+ leaders to generate Diversity Inclusion momentum & cultivate greater team resilience
#lgbtcoach #icfcoach #amisraelchai
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Keiko Ogawa @keikogawa.bsky.social Life is an adventure. I support people create their own path, unlock their potential, and achieve their dreams in life and career. / ICF Professional Certified Coach
人生は冒険の旅。自らの意思で人生・キャリアの可能性を拓き、願いを実現し続ける人をサポートしています / 国際コーチング連盟認定PCC
Lyn Gardner @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social Journalist thinking out loud about theatre. Often at The Stage and Stagedoor. Author of novels for children. Contact@lyngardner.com 
Tamar Millen @tamarmillen.bsky.social Tired.
Warrior/Worrier.
Freelance Culture organiser and producer. PhD researcher in Design at Sussex - Designing The Conditions for Hope.
Kinship carer to Nid1 & Nid2
Sheffield.
Linda Aspey @lindaaspey.bsky.social Director of Psychology @ National Emergency Briefing. Coach, facilitator, therapist, consultant, speaker. Board member of Climate Psychology Alliance. Supporting those navigating turbulent times, by building insight, agency & resilience.
James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social New book The Place of Tides (Allen Lane) now in all good bookshops
Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social Tea, scones, independent institutions and why they need looking after. Director of Communications @NationalTrust.bsky.social Trustee, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The posts are just mine.
Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social Hello lovelies. This is my official account.. 💙💙
Glad to be over here from the "other place"😂
It's like breathing clean air again 👍🏼
Philippa Perry @pperry.bsky.social Author, Agony Aunt, Artist, Psychotherapist philippaperry.substack.com
Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
Instagram.com/nigelslater 
Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, optimist. FRHistS. Books: Blood Legacy: slavery & my family's part in it. Stiff Upper Lip: abuse in Britain's elite schools. BBC Radio 4's In Dark Corners.
alexrenton.com
David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social Broadcaster, author, journalist, dad, grandpa, heroic Substacker to be found at davidaaronovitch.substack.com. Recovering tweeter
Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania
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 
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
Fiona Maddocks @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social classical music critic The Observer. Etc
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social Presenter, Radio Four’s Front Row and Start the Week. 
Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm.bsky.social Channel 4 News, Unreported World, Ways to Change the World, The Fourcast, Class of 2023 on Strictly
Also Chairman of Duchenne UK
Ed Vere @edvere.bsky.social Picture book maker
www.edvere.com
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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Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social Co host @thenewsagents .
Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social Write for The Times, my book is Scattering Plenty, work with brilliant conservation charities & I sell books. Progressive liberal, never very impressed by political right. Represented by Northbank. Leisure time by rivers and immersed in culture and nature
Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org We believe the arts make life better, and everyone should have opportunities to experience and take part in them. 🎶💃🎭🎨✍️📸🎥🧵🏛️
https://www.campaignforthearts.org/join/
John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social EX Editor, the Guardian/ prospect magazine. The New World. ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
Alex Needham @alexneedham.bsky.social Arts editor of The Guardian.