Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, professor of Modern Literature & Creative Writing, co-editor of New Walk Editions. www.rorywaterman.com https://rorywaterman.substack.com/. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC🔰/COYP
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social Singer-songwriter. Political Junkie. Foodie. Resist.
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ricky-davila/1031751601
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Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social Lawyer, writer, Zedra
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social Investigative journalist @tbij.bsky.social. garethdavies@tbij.com. Supporter of local journalism and Tottenham Hotspur. Runner. PC & board gamer 
Joe Egerton @joeegg.bsky.social 
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social News for Oxfordshire. Est. 2022.
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Nicole Wilkins @nicwilkins.foresightnews.com CEO of Foresight News. Canadian in the UK. Long-suffering Leafs and QPR fan. Most opinions are just Simpsons references.
Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com A/Prof of Philosophy at Deakin Uni (all views mine). Writer, does radio stuff, half of The Fake McCoys. Works on digital death, personal identity, Kierkegaard, moral phil. Has more hobbies than advisable. Melbourne + Werona
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things" • dylan.difford@yougov.com
Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social Writer, historian, Contrib Ed, FT, Robert Bosch Fellow, Berlin, author These Divided Isles, and Britain Alone (both Faber), British, Irish and European. philipstephens.substack.com, philipstephens.net
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
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.
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
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
Tom James @tacj.bsky.social Pretty standard really.
Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social Digital marketing type, European politics bore, language enthusiast, one of those gays you hear about, Eurovision nerd, that guy in the window seat. Next trip: 🇫🇮
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
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.
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.
Borners @borners.bsky.social Transit Costs Project Researcher
英国基進主義者 English state buildingism.. in the Sino-Japanese).
I crow for the dawn, like this rooster by Kano Sansetsu, my mind in his 10 Snow incidents landscape.
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)
Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social 🌹 Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley
📈 Member of the Treasury Select Committee
✉️ Please email if you'd like a reply: yuan.yang.mp@parliament.uk
Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Oliver Skånberg-Tippen @oskanberg.bsky.social Machine learning engineer, decarbonising the grid
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, economics, books, culture, ideas, science, history, tech, data...
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social A mix of rare, unusual, spectacular, personal, and historic pictures from the earliest days of cricket to modern times
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
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social British Journal of Political Science from @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org.
cambridge.org/bjpols
BJPolS is now an open access journal and from 2025 has published continuously with no issues, just one volume per year.
Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
Find us at 🔗 www.ppfideas.com
Martin Stanley @ukcivilservant.bsky.social I write about, and for, the UK civil service and regulators. Author 'How to be a Civil Servant' and 'How to Succeed in the Senior Civil Service'. Previously Business Department and CMA.
Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Political History. The Labour Party and other currently lost causes.
“'Tis a muddle, and that's aw.”
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
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social Novelist, scriptwriter, journalist, incompetent guitarist. I span the genres.
https://eddierobson.wordpress.com
Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social Legal Translator and University Lecturer based in Messina. Sicily, mafia, Italian justice system.
Mafia Chronicles: nicholaswhithorn.substack.com
markhleonard.bsky.social @markhleonard.bsky.social Director of @ecfr.eu; Presenter 'Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes' apple.co/2ACObcj; Columnist; Speaker; Author 'The Age of Unpeace', 'What Does China Think?", "Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail" (forthcoming in April)
Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player. 
Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Former minor twitter celebrity/hate figure. https://www.leonardocarella.com/
Society for Army Historical Research @societyarmy.bsky.social Serving Scholars, Enthusiasts and Soldiers. Established 1921. Registered UK Charity 247844. Retweets do not represent an endorsement. sahr.org.uk
First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social Official account of First World War Studies, scholarly journal of the International Society for First World War Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfww20
Kathryn White @kathrynww1.bsky.social Dr Kathryn White writes about history: the World Wars, British Empire, religion, and the books she's reading.
kathrynshistoryblog.substack.com
Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social Historian & Author on #FWW allied relations, historical games studies, & #StarWars. Rep'd Justin Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency. Consulting partner @historystudiola.bsky.social. He/him
https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social Military Historian. Author, ‘The Age of Mammon and Mars: Money and War in the Twentieth Century’ (OUP, March 2027). IEconomic Statecraft; Strategy; Money.
Author of 2 award-winning books on the First World War. Professor at University of Birmingham.
Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social Part-time writer. Political activist. Fan of Bradford City and rail travel (amongst other things). Bibliophile. Dad. List not necessarily in order of importance.
Jim Hulbert @jimhulbert.bsky.social Cricket, politics and Simpsons references.
@tseofpb.bsky.social @tseofpb.bsky.social Deputy editor of politicalbetting.com, I like politics, and I like to bet,
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
@ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social 
cones @coneshotline.bsky.social cones (elizabeth) | 33 | she/her | "a special kind of degenerate" - some guy on twitter
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 
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Stephen Law @stephenlaw.bsky.social Philosopher, author of The Complete Philosophy Files, The Philosophy Gym etc.
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
ʟɪɴᴇꜱ @lines.ink The survivors, brought to their senses by the disaster, gave chase to the woman: she, laughing in mockery, changed herself into a wren and flew away.
Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social People have argued over this for centuries but pretty sure I can crack this today on bluesky via sarcasm.
David Sheppard @oilsheppard.bsky.social Financial Times Acting Whitehall Editor. Former FT Energy Editor, but still dabbles in what makes the world go round. Ex-Reuters.
megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social political correspondent, new statesman
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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social Founder of the Housing Frame on Substack. Housing, markets, economy. Buc-ee’s fan.
conorsen.substack.com
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social Former internet celebrity. Former journalist. Current human author and @apiln.bsky.social Supreme Leader. Ally. fizzandnonsense.bsky.social completes me.
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. UK regional journalist of the year 2025. 4 x Specialist Regional Journalist of the Year winner. Orwell Prize and Paul Foot nominee. Proud dad who loves overpriced craft ale.
Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
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/
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social Naval Iconoclast, Military-Industrial Expert
Senior Fellow, National Security Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
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/
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
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
Leftback @leftback.bsky.social Chelsea and very socially liberal politics, so basically you'll get angry at something.
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social Lib Dem Life Peer. Party President 2020-5. Author, "Polling UnPacked" / http://www.theweekinpolls.co.uk / https://libdemnewswire.substack.com / imprint + privacy http://markpack.org.uk/legal-privacy / he/him
Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social Medieval historian. 'If it works for Marc Morris, it works for me.' (Scarlett Johansson)
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social Former political researcher and professional elections nerd specialising in electoral and party systems. Current day market research analyst for museums, heritage, the arts and charities around the world. UK's number one Romania-phile. Still a nerd. He/him
Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social politic_animal from the Musk shop.
Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2
Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social Whitehall Editor for the Observer & chief investigative reporter for BBC R4's The Naked Week. Politics, investigations and taramasalata
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
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
Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social Professor of Politics. 
Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk Consumer journalist | Feature writer | Columnist for Times Business | Make TV progs, chats on radio | Host conferences, panels etc.
Agent: Knight Ayton
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN