Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social Immigration and asylum law. All views my own but reposts not endorsement. Refugees welcome🧡. Green Party member💚. Trans 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights. He/him.
"Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Beefeater 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 The Guardian of Facts 🫶 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/beefeaterfella
https://beefeaterresearch.substack.com/
Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu Planning cities that make people smile;
Co-founder @ humankind
Author of The Car That Wanted to be a Bike: http://humankind.city/car
📍 Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social Political Scientist | British Politics and History | PhD on political salaries (Exeter) | Mst. Modern British and European History (Oxford) | DMs closed, email me @n.dickinson3@exeter.ac.uk
Luke Turner @luketurner.com artist // writer // defeated crypto billionaire-funded neo-Nazis in "the free speech trial of our age" // hewillnotdivide.us (2017-2021) // the metamodernist manifesto (2011) ✨
🔗 luketurner.com
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
Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social Stand-up special, Hit Me With Your Autistic, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BppE9bM74E Follow me on Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/cIGKR Any/All Pronouns
Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social Professor specializing in bird social behavior. Interested in developmental systems thought, ontogenetic niches, organismal agency, and ייִדיש. PI: Animal Social Interaction lab
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social Posting for my own entertainment
Harry Taylor @harrytaylor.bsky.social Parliamentary Reporter at Press Association. Former news editor and occasional reporter at the Times. Have also written for the Guardian, Observer, Camden New Journal and Ham&High. Own views. Kidderminster Harriers fan.
Graham Ward @yelobeli.bsky.social Notts County, New England Patriots, Milwaukee Brewers, Nottinghamshire Cricket, Scotland Rugby and Football, Music, Film, TV, Art, Books, Maps, Architecture, Modernism, Public Transport etc.
Born in Lincoln, Raised in Notts, Live in Suffolk, Work in London
Dr Sophia Komninou @sophiakomninou.bsky.social Recovering academic, intrest magpie, inclusive feminist, amateur ballet dancer & ballet geek, passionate about food, inter-crafter, curious, pretending adult. She/her
JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social Overcaffeinated scribbling person
SOLIDARITY
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." -- Dolly Parton
She/her/they/them
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social Scottish drawerer and photographerer
“The funniest man in this lift” - the other man in the lift
Marswasrubbish.com
https://marswasrubbish.etsy.com
Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social Assistant prof at IE University. Previously EUI and Oxford.
Researching what we think is ok to do in a democracy & how that changes.
Book on the normalization of the radical right: https://academic.oup.com/book/57946
More at www.vicentevalentim.com
Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com Books like The English Monster. Podcasts at The Curiously Specific Book Club
Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social Licensed Thames Mudlark. Up To My Eyes In Silt. NB: It is illegal to search the tidal Thames Foreshore, for any reason, without a valid permit from the Port of London Authority.
Instagram: @lizanderson2
Blog: A Mudlark’s Diary https://amudlarksdiary.com/
Vic Michaelis @vicmmic.bsky.social actor + improviser + sorry about the birds
John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Law at Keele University, England. Research in EU constitutional law, especially defence of democracy, and impeachment. Irishman living in Cheshire. Views are my own.
Bart Crisp @crispybart.bsky.social Aspiring Renaissance dude, special interests include education, politics, history, heavy metal, tabletop roleplaying, being a massive nerd in general, and a bit of rugby here and there. Views entirely my own* (subject to conditions)
Matthew Fright @matthewfright.bsky.social Associate director - devolution @instituteforgovernment.org.uk formerly @nao.org.uk analyst. PhD on history of national income accounts. Views are my own.
Thomas Pope @tompope.bsky.social Chief Economist @instituteforgov.bsky.social
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
Rebecca McKee @rebeccamckee.bsky.social Associate Director at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk working in our Ministers team with special interest in parliament, ministerial leadership, private office and (sometimes) public inquiries.
Former academic and citizens' assembly organiser 🫶
Stuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social Associate Director in the public services team
@InstituteforGov. Interested in the NHS, adult social care, and local government. All views my own. He/him
Alan Rew @alanrew.bsky.social UK-based retired software developer.
Art, Photography, Science, Music, Economics, Politics, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Architecture, Archaeology
I can't send/receive DMs here.
Signal: alan.285
Unofficial Andy @unofficialandy.bsky.social This is a completely unofficial Bluesky account that collates links to Andy Burnham's Instagram and TikTok accounts. It's maintained by @bowsy.co.uk (David Durant).
@jacktshaw.bsky.social @jacktshaw.bsky.social Director of Groundwork Research and Policy Fellow, The Productivity Institute. 'Veteran local government advisor'.
Read my Notes on Local Government Substack: https://substack.com/@notesonlocalgovernment
Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social Same name, not *that* one though. 49, Movie lover, lives in the East. (UK) Rarely manages a serious post on any social media platform.
'Drinking Chololate Enthusiast' - Not my words, but the words of Hotel Chocolat
Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demons • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Britain's happiest bat @timsewell.bsky.social Software developer, photographer/filmist, political nerd, lefty, prone to snark.
Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
Sophie Hall @sophlouisehall.bsky.social Boltonian in London. Garlic bread! ✨ A silly billy!
COMEDY: https://sophlouisehall.medium.com
SUBSTACK ABOUT BEST BITS OF POP SONGS: https://sophiehall.substack.com
Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social Feminism, cardigans, complaining
Sacha Lord @sacha-lord.bsky.social Night Time Economy Adviser for Greater Manchester.
Co founded WHP/Parklife
Chair NTIA
Ben Bradshaw @benbradshaw.bsky.social Ex Labour Minister & ex MP for Exeter, now growing olives in Sicily.
He/him
Howard Goodall @howardgoodall.bsky.social Composer, lyricist, author, broadcaster
#nufc
Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social scots. telly writer/director he/him/his
first show: "the rockford files" 1994
last show: "mobland" 2025
next show: "slow horses" 2026
i'm against ai owned by billionaires.
i purge my posts but meant what i said.
a: hobo
b: chimp wi' a megaphone (getty)
Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social Lefty liberal by temperament, exasperated by experience.
Not strictly qualified for most arguments, but I do read a lot.
Stockport, UK
Lendwithcare @lendwithcare.bsky.social Microfinance from @careintuk.bsky.social. Lendwithcare provides a way to help people in low-income countries to work their way out of poverty with dignity.
www.lendwithcare.org
Martin Wheatley @martinhwheatley.bsky.social Public service reform, housing, environment, active travel
Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social Post other people's funny, gags from pro comedians, my own tat, and support the work of outstanding investigative journalists.
Johnny Ninefingers @johnnyninefingers.bsky.social I was Jack Janglebones on t'other site.
Retired guitarist. I used to be first-call at TPA Studios when Steve Kent ran it. Played with some people you've heard of. Sometimes more than once. I collect books.
Denizen of the Oak Grove, Greater Wülferhampton.
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
@drnedflanders.bsky.social @drnedflanders.bsky.social Love physics, mathematics, computing, gaming, painting and piano. Fighting against exploitation,intolerance, bigotry and injustice.
Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk News about the world of news.
Sign up to our free newsletters here: https://pressgazette.co.uk/all-newsletters/
Stories and tips: pged@pressgazette.co.uk
Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social Journalism, media, politics, culture, technology…and other stuff.
Laura Bee @writerlaurabee.bsky.social Tragically unhip Dutch-Canadian stranded in the Netherlands. A little bit writer, a little bit rock & roll. A lot ADHD. Boomer, but not the kind with money. 🚫 AI.
#SoA
One of Pamela Des Barres' Electric Ladies! https://tinyurl.com/mruve4cw
New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social Change the rules. Share the wealth. Protect the planet.
Graeme Demianyk @graemedemianyk.bsky.social Senior Reporter and Front Page Editor at HuffPost | 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 | Newcastle United
Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, trade unionist and socialist
https://inews.co.uk/author/andrew-fisher
Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social Writer, editor, bereaved single Dad, Quaker, allotmenteer and very amateur musician.
Lover of strangers.
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s astonishing life of power, seduction & intrigue. New York Times bestselling author. A Woman of No Importance. Fellow of Royal Historical Society. Warned you about Johnson. Plutarch Prize winner www.soniapurnell.com
Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social 🗳️ Scottish politics & elections | 📊 Quant social & political science | 💼 Associate Advisory Director @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social |📜 Associate Member @ccc-research.bsky.social | 🖋️ in various publications
British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social The conversations we need on integration and migration, identity and race.Contact: info@britishfuture.org
Director: @sundersays.bsky.social
Bobby Duffy @bobbyduffy.bsky.social Director, Policy Institute at King's College London and Chair of the Campaign for Social Science
Svenja O'Donnell @svenjaodonnell.bsky.social Journalist, writer, editor. Reformed lobby hack. Owned by dachshund.
Dr Nigel Fletcher @nigelfletcher.bsky.social Wanderer in the fourth dimension. British political & constitutional historian, author and lecturer.
Distracted by cats and camp classic telly. Will run for cake.
🖊️ 📖 🇬🇧 🏰 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈 📺 🍰🏃🏻♂️
www.nigelfletcher.org
https://nigelfletcher.substack.com
Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social Does political sociology @DerbyUni | Blogger | Author: THE PARTY'S OVER: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONSERVATIVES FROM THATCHER TO SUNAK | Bylines @Tribune & @Jacobin | Bits of SF too | Writes things: http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk
Simon Fletcher @fletchersimon.bsky.social Former adviser to Labour leaders, former chief of staff to the Mayor of London. Director of winning Labour leadership campaigns. Socialist.
Political campaigns II writing and analysis II consultancy
https://linktr.ee/simonfletcher
Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social Political editor of The Observer. Email: Rachel.sylvester@observer.co.uk
Anna Isaac @annaisaac.bsky.social City Editor, The Guardian - aka poking about in the money/power mix
Get in touch with tips: trucker3@pm.me
Adrian Goldberg @goldbergradio.bsky.social "Where's The Money Gone? The Battle For The Soul of English Football" out now via Byline Books. Email: @goldbergradio@gmail.com
Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social ‘Notes on Now’ every month in Byline Times, Co-founder openDemocracy Led Charter 88 from 1988-2005. Iron Britannia; The Lure of Greatness; Taking Control! Etc Online articles in Authory.
David Hencke @davidhencke.bsky.social Freelance investigative lobby journalist writing for Byline Times. Previously a lobby journalist on the Guardian. Follow my blog davidhencke.com covering whistleblowing, pension campaigns, employment tribunals and injustice in the NHS and everywhere else.
POLITICO Europe @politico.eu Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social Published January, 2026: The Global Casino: How Wall St Gambles with People and Planet. Check out my newsletter: System Change, https://annpettifor.substack.com/
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social Author, book http://Amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KR127TN?
Preview here https://archiveofourown.org/works/47902108/chapters/120770212
I #followback
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social Journalist. Activist. Working for a better tomorrow today.
Political perspectives. Sustainability. Resilience. Food security. Social justice.
Scottish. Irish. Algerian. Kabyl.
There is no Planet B.
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social Your Party MP for Coventry South 🌹
coventrysouth@parliament.uk
Promoted by Zarah Sultana at CWU South Midlands, Coventry, CV1 3EG
Chatham House @chathamhouse.org The Royal Institute of International Affairs - Chatham House. Independent thinking since 1920.
Website🔗: chathamhouse.org
Podcast🎙️: https://apple.co/45Bbbny
Magazine: @theworldtoday.org
Journal: @iajournal.bsky.social
Paul Melly @paulmelly.bsky.social Reporter/researcher; Chatham House Consulting Fellow. Sahel-W. Africa, rural dev, Madagascar, French & EU Africa policy. Tweets own views; RTs not endorsements
Mike Higgins @lycidas.bsky.social Editor, The World Today, the magazine of Chatham House. www.theworldtoday.org. 
Alex Krasodomski @alexkj.bsky.social Tech, AI, Digital Public Infrastructure and old border foils at @Chatham House. Fellow @ ISD, Demos, Public AI network
John Pollock @johnpollock.bsky.social Communications for Chatham House (@chathamhouse.org) | Writer @theworldtoday.org | Think tanks and higher education | Posts on international affairs/security | China | Views my own.
Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social Academic and author of a recent book on the Abraham Accords. Interested in the Gulf states, conflict diplomacy, progressive ideas.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-abraham-accords/9780231212380/
Ruth Townend @ruthtownend.bsky.social Politically feasable pathways to 'adequate' public climate action with @cast-centre.bsky.social. Formerly @chathamhouse.org host of The Climate Briefing podcast. Research nerd, climate geek, parent to two glorious little women. All views my own.
Leslie Vinjamuri @leslievinjamuri.bsky.social President and CEO
Chicago Council on Global Affairs;
also Professor of Practice @SOAS University of London
Marion Messmer @mgmessmer.bsky.social Programme Director for International Security at Chatham House
Former BASIC, King's College London
Laurence Broers @laurencebroers.bsky.social Scholar-practitioner, contemporary South Caucasus | associate fellow, Chatham House | co-editor-in-chief, Caucasus Survey
Joyce Hakmeh @joycehakmeh.bsky.social Deputy Director, International Security, Chatham House
Co-Editor, Journal of Cyber Policy
Nilza Amaral @nilzaamaral.bsky.social Head of Research Operations, Global Governance and Security Centre, Chatham House (@chathamhouse.bsky.social). Down is the new up. Views my own.
Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House |Author of "Deep Connections: the hidden battles to control undersea cables" (Polity, Sep 26) | Europe, geoeconomics of tech, tech sovereignty | Amsterdammer in London 🇪🇺
Bill Hayton @billhayton.bsky.social Associate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Prog at Chatham House; Editor of Asian Affairs; author of ‘Invention of China’, ‘South China Sea’, ‘Vietnam: Rising Dragon’ and ‘Brief History of Vietnam’
The World Today @theworldtoday.org The magazine of @chathamhouse.org. From June 2026, social media updates will be posted on @chathamhouse.org – please follow us there
📖 Read: theworldtoday.org
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Chris Aylett @chrisaylett.bsky.social Research Fellow @chathamhouse focusing on the geopolitics of climate change and the energy transition. Views my own.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/chris-aylett
Header: 'A List of Antagonisms', Hiba Abdallah
Rowan Wilkinson @rwilkinson.bsky.social Love all things tech, geopolitics, humanitarianism and development policy. Currently at Chatham House 🌍 All views are my own
Ino Terzi @inoterzi.bsky.social Chatham House academy associate.
intelligence · irregular warfare · emerging technology
Khrystia Myhasiuk @khrystiamyhasiuk.bsky.social think tanking at ChathamHouse (@chathamhouse.bsky.social) | views my own | Support Ukrainian Army: http://comebackalive.in.ua/donate
Romane Dideberg @dideberg.bsky.social Research Assistant at Chatham House's Africa Programme - Political economy of conflict, natural resource governance, Sahel, Great Lakes
Richard King @rking.uk Senior Research Fellow with Chatham House's (@chathamhouse.org) Environment and Society Centre (@chesc.bsky.social). Views own, reposts & links ≠ endorsements.
Chatham House Africa @africaprog.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org’s Africa Programme is a world-leading centre for independent policy research on African politics.
Website🔗: chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-departments/africa-programme
Podcast🎙️: soundcloud.com/chathamhouse/sets/africa-aware
Lisa Musumba @lisamusumba.bsky.social Communications Coordinator @africaprog.bsky.social • Host of the #AfricaAware podcast • views are my own