Tom Chidwick @tomchidwick.bsky.social Historian | Author of "Now or Never! A History of the First Scottish Devolution Referendum" | Manager of @mileendinstitute.bsky.social
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Patrick Maguire @patrickmaguire.bsky.social Chief political commentator, The Times
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com
James Hawes @jameshawes.bsky.social Father of three boys. Married to an Irishwoman. Ex-novelist. Historian. Teacher of writing. Novel “Speak for England” (2005) predicted Brexit - “it deserves some kind of prescience prize" (Observer, 2017). Website: Jameshawes.org.uk
Megan Corton Scott @mcortonscott.bsky.social deputy director of the Labour Climate and Environment Forum • all my own views
Alwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social writer/historian/talker
Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social Strategy Fellow, Global Health & Wellbeing at Coefficient Giving. Views my own
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social Pre-order TRADE WORLD! https://lnk.to/TradeWorldBook
Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk Open is a Verb
Pride is a Riot
He/Him/They
There are many more of us than you
Glasgow, Topical Paradise
@michaelujacobs.bsky.social @michaelujacobs.bsky.social
Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️
Host of the FT’s award-winning ‘Political Fix’ podcast🎙️Author 📚
Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
Miranda Sawyer @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, host of @papercutsshow and other chatty bits, I HAVE A BOOK OUT! Uncommon People - Britpop and Beyond In 20 Songs here it is https://amzn.eu/d/g2WxjyS
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
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
Fabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social Sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Inequality, status hierarchies, elites, culture, economic sociology, historical sociology.
www.fabienaccominotti.com
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
Kings Head BS1 @kingsheadbs1.bsky.social A new old pub from the team behind @thegood-measure, on Victoria St in Bristol. Cheers! 🍻👑💚
CAMRA Heritage Award Winning
Open:
Mon 4pm
Tues Sat noon
Sun 2pm
Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social Run @whotargets.me and am a Partner @jointogether.online. Used to play drums in Fridge. Live in Cork, from London.
Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com Freelance science & technology journalist. 12+ years experience. Irish/Polish. Writes for the BBC, Wired, The Guardian and others!
Portfolio: chrisbaraniuk.com
Newsletter: thereengineer.pro
Coaching: chrisbaraniuk.com/coaching
HQ: Belfast, N. Ireland
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
Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social By day: enabler of research & cheerleader of people. By night: sweary embroidery, speedcubing, books, parkrun. University of Bath (ex-UKRI). She/her
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Climate Change Committee @thecccuk.bsky.social The UK’s independent adviser on tackling climate change.
https://www.theccc.org.uk/
Sam Byers @sambyers.bsky.social Author of Idiopathy, Perfidious Albion, and Come Join Our Disease
Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social Sociologist at @ucl.ac.uk
Cancelled Futures (PUP): https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691276700/cancelled-futures
Pubs for the People (MUP): https://www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-for-the-people/sivamohan-valluvan/amit-singh/9781526194541
Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social Professor, LSE | Head of the Department of Government | Exec Council of EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social | Chair of EES @eesresearch.bsky.social | Co-Director of POAL @poalab.bsky.social | Fellow of the British Academy | Author of Tribal Politics (OUP)
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social
Zach Dickson @zachdickson.bsky.social Postdoc at LSE researching climate politics and party competition
https://z-dickson.github.io/
Eoghan Kelly @eoghanly.bsky.social Politics PhD and lead of the Polling London project at Queen Mary University of London.
Co-Founder of DevolvedElections.co.uk & IrishElections.ie
@devolvedelections.bsky.social @irishelection.bsky.social
@lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social
Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social Sociologist and Stone Center Postdoc at MIT studying elite kinship networks. Incoming AP at Berkeley Sociology starting January 2027 (she/her)
Dr Ian C Elliott @ianelliott.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Public Administration. co-EiC @journalpad.bsky.social.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4622-298X
#Publicadmin #leadership #localgov #academicsky #PASky #PolicySky #academic #research #Scotland. All views my own etc
Sarah Ayres @sarahayres.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy & Governance, Bristol University. Political scientist and Chair of the Regional Studies Association.
Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social Content Editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation. Dance 10, looks 3
Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social Lecturer in Defence Studies at the UK Defence Academy, King’s College, London. Writes on industrial strategy, British politics, and the history of technology.
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
@chakrabortty.bsky.social @chakrabortty.bsky.social
John O’Halloran @joh2024.bsky.social President @UCC.bsky.social PhD, DSc, MRIA
Richard Watermeyer @rpwatermeyer.bsky.social Dad of Three | Sociologist | Professor of Higher Education at University of Bristol | Co-Director of CHET | West Ham Season TH | Wannabe Surfer | Half Saffa
Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism, 'Contractor'.
Lior Sheffer @liorsheffer.bsky.social Political scientist at the Tel Aviv University. I study elite political behaviour.
https://sites.google.com/site/liorsheffer/
John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social posting about posts at new york magazine
Diana O'Brien @dzobrien.bsky.social Professor at @washu.edu researching gender and politics and women’s political representation. More info at: www.dianaobrien.com
@tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Dan Carey-Dawes @dancareydawes.bsky.social Opinions my own
Jack Copley @jackcopley.bsky.social Teach & research international political economy at Durham University.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/ykvf98wn
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social Britain editor, New Statesman. Lead host, New Statesman Podcast (Publisher Podcast Award winner '21-24) & co-host Westminster Reimagined with Armando Iannucci.
The Brunel Centre @thebrunelcentre.bsky.social Powering devolution and economic growth in the West of England through data and insight.
Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com Wealth editor, Financial Times. I like swimming, classical music and cryptic crosswords. Working on a memoir about my earlier life at a magazine for the very rich. he/him 🏳️🌈 josh.spero@ft.com
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/
Nicole Martin @nspmartin.bsky.social Political scientist @official-uom.bsky.social studying elections and immigration, education and parties
Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social Human large language model based at Cornell University
www.ddekadt.com
Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social Reader in Comparative Politics (I think that's like an Associate Professor everywhere else in the world)
Hand of A'dal
https://leemsavage.wordpress.com/
Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6
Roger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social Edited 24 editions of CAMRA Good Beer Guide. Founder British Guild of Beer Writers. Twice winner Glenfiddich Drink Writer of the Year. 20 plus books including Family Brewers of Britain. West Ham fan
protzonbeer.co.uk
Richard Gallagher @richardgallagher.bsky.social Sinn Féin. PhD from Queens University Belfast. Book: Screening Ulster: Cinema and the Unionists. Donegal. Email: drrichiegallagher@gmail.com
Caroline Slocock @carolineslocock.bsky.social Director of think tank Civil Exchange, expert on government and civil society, political commentator, ex senior civil servant and Private Secretary to two PMs, author of People Like Us and Bad Government, published 30 June. Also on X.
Nye Cominetti @nyecominetti.bsky.social At Resolution Foundation covering labour market, low pay, living wage.
Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com The world’s most trusted flight tracker.
Niamh O’Mahony @niamhomahony.bsky.social Sport, Media, Digital Tech, random things of interest. From Cork, mostly resides in Dublin. #SpéirGorm
Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Economics, Oxford University.
Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Does social psychology & qualitative methods, interested in identity in diaspora. Lives in Cork. Spends more time on the N20 than is good for me.
Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social Melbourne based philosopher. Dianoia RIP. Senior Research Associate, African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg. Epistemology and ethics. #philsky #melbourne #democrats It ain't easy being blue
Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com Politics guy @virginmedianews.bsky.social; host of Monday with Gavan Reilly (10pm, Virgin Media One); weekly columnist @thejournal.ie; bestselling author of 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞: linktr.ee/gavreilly
Joe Mungo Reed @joemungoreed.bsky.social Writes novels and stories and teaches writing.
TERRESTRIAL HISTORY out April 8th 2025
https://bookshop.org/a/113939/9781324079378
https://www.joemungoreed.com/
Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social Media Editor for @theguardian.com. Likes ≠ endorsements, obv. Story? 👇👇👇
Michael.savage@theguardian.com
Need a secure way to contact me? Signal username: word_builder.20
John Lourenze Poquiz @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social Researcher at @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @uniofcam.bsky.social.
PhD @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.
Interests: Economic Measurement, Productivity, & Innovation.
Opinions & rants are my own.
RT ≠ endorsements.
Mike Brewer @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social Deputy Chief Executive Resolution Foundation, CPAG Trustee & Visiting Prof in Practice at LSE Social Policy. 'Calm, Measured, Withering' http://tinyurl.com/y6wxlxhj). 'Cool, calm analysis' (More or Less, 8/10/25). He/him
Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social probably typing with a cat on my shoulder | Professor of Public Policy & Health @uofgussp University of Glasgow | Editor, Sociology of Health & Illness | Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences | author 'How Britain Loves the NHS' @policypress
David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellow in political science at Aarhus University, by way of the University of Zurich. Research on deservingness, solidarity, and social cleavages in politics.
Website: https://www.davidattewell.net/
Rossella Merullo @rossmer.bsky.social PhD candidate @ University of Hamburg | DFG-Funded
Political representation, elections, party strategies, gender and the radical right.
BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social Unofficial bot for what’s on BBC Radio 3.
Telegram: t.me/BBCRadio3Now
@bbcradio3ubot.bsky.social @bbcradio1bot.bsky.social @bbcradio1xtrabot.bsky.social @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social @bbcasiannetworkbot.bsky.social
Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I cover democracy, campaigning, and Britain's media.
Followers can reply to posts (ask to DM me). Open to news tips.
'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson.
Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social FT Alphaville reporter. Ex-“veteran” fund manager. Resolution Foundation Assoc. Baring Foundation Trustee.
Rick Edwards @rickedwards1.bsky.social Talks for a living
@ref2029.bsky.social @ref2029.bsky.social
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.
Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com Professor at Duke University. Cultural evolution, political attitudes, social change, nerdy stuff in R. YNWA. https://vaiseys.github.io/
profserious @profserious.bsky.social Technology, Software, Policy, Security, Universities, Art, Antiques, Cats. https://finkelstein.uk
Sarah Ledoux @sarahledoux.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist at the University of Vienna
Representation | Political Communication | Voter behaviour | Tech Policy
Committee Member @techpolicy.bsky.social
Amy Barron @amycbarron.bsky.social Cultural and Social Geographer, UoM. Interested in the lived experience of urban difference, inequalities, and social categories through the lenses of age, ageing, and the life course.
Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Political Sociology @QMPoliticsIR | Military Sociology, Critical War Studies, IR Theory | Victory, Sociology of Time, War Bodies
Gary Love @garylove.bsky.social Professor of British History & Culture @NTNU, Trondheim. Researching history of British Conservatism & centre-right internationalism; writing politics in modern Britain; & women in British politics
Dan Hancox @danhancox.bsky.social Journalist and author from south London. Latest book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Verso 2024).
https://cursedobjects.podbean.com/
https://danhancox.substack.com/
Sacha Hilhorst @sachahilhorst.bsky.social Hallsworth fellow at University of Manchester & research fellow at Common Wealth. Ajax fan. She/her.
Stan's Account @tristandross.bsky.social having a laugh correspondent @online
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV