Punch Cartoons @punchbooks.bsky.social From the archives of the greatest humour magazine of them all! Cartoons, caricatures, social & political history, artists, writers, @PontWorld & satire today.
Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Left-wing columnist, author, provocateur 
Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social Emeritus Prof @ Leeds Uni in energy & environment. For clean air, net zero, trees, Latin drumming & exercising my right to roam. Suspect professional Northerner.
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
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Jennifer Davey @jhdavey.bsky.social Historian and Director of The History of Parliament (@histparl.bsky.social). On substack https://historyofparliament.substack.com/. Views are my own.
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social Writing for The Economist—mostly on the US economy, with occasional forays elsewhere. Recreational Britain-watcher. Previous lives in macro investing and polling.
Substack at: https://notes.archie-hall.com/
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles.
"I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
Pilita Clark @pilitaclark.bsky.social Financial Times columnist. Writing about climate change and corporate life, not always in that order.
Jamie MacColl @jamiemaccoll.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @rusi.bsky.social | Senior Research Associate @virtualroutes.bsky.social | Usually researching ransomware and cybercrime | Sometime indie landfill guitarist
Andrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Welwyn Hatfield🌹
🏏 Still an occasional cricketer.
Always a Pro-European.
www.andrewlewin.co.uk
Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social News reporter at The Times. Migration, security and all things maritime.
Prior winner, Paul Foot Award, 30Under30 etc.
Want to talk stories? DM or use yeomans.97 on Signal
Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social Fastidious historian, Manchester UK 🏳️⚧️
New book: https://tinyurl.com/26fx4h8j
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
World War I As It Happened (1914) @warhappened.bsky.social I post stories, big and small, from the Great War, currently covering 1914. The project originally started at Twitter, https://x.com/WarHappened
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social Partner, Public First and Head of Education Practice. Education strategy + policy advisory. Former civil servant + think tanker. Occasional loud LFC. Centrist Dad, so naturally I also have a Substack.
Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social Energy and transitioning from fossil fuels. Complex issues I try to shine a light on. Ex-UKAEA and Met Office, now working in community energy. Occasionally politics
Exeter, UK
Jo Rothery @jorothery.bsky.social Researcher at Canterbury Christ Church University. PhD student obsessing over the politics of place and the Labour Party. Interested in political, cultural, economic and social domination within Britain. Plus all things politics!
Alwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social writer/historian/talker
Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social "an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor at The Spectator
Charlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social Labour MP for Warrington North 🌹
Jewish, book worm, happiest outdoors
Email: charlotte.nichols.mp@parliament.uk
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Dr David Jeffery @drdavidjeffery.bsky.social Senior lecturer in British politics at the University of Liverpool. Expect academic work, parkrun/triathlon spam, and graphs. Views my own 🏳️🌈
Book: Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool? Free ebook (& other links)--> https://linktr.ee/david_jeffery
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
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
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Alfie Steer @alfiesteer.bsky.social Historian of the Labour Left. Articles and book reviews in Tribune, Jacobin, Political Insight, Contemporary British History, English Historical Review, Modern British History.
Organised 'Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On.'
Rieke Trimcev @trimcev.bsky.social Political Theorist at MLU Halle-Wittenerg
Nigel Gould-Davies @nigelgould-davies.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies. Contributing editor, Survival. Fmr Ambassador to Belarus. Victims' rights advocate. Views mine.
Kim Leadbeater MBE MP @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Spen Valley
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
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
PissTake Peg 😏 @partnumber2.bsky.social Pompey fan and ST holder for too many years.
Likes music of most genres.
Known by many names on this thing we call the internet: GOG, PissTake_Peg being the most noted.
It’s a tradition, or an old charter or something.
Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social Posting about Church & State
Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Richard Hermer @richardhermer.bsky.social Former Attorney General for England and Wales | Before that, human rights lawyer | Always a Cardiff boy
Ellen Halliday @ellenhalliday.bsky.social Deputy editor at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences @hssqmul.bsky.social Explaining the past, understanding the present, and imagining the future
Matthew England @matthewengland.bsky.social Researcher at Hansard Society. Parliament; constitutions; delegated legislation. 
Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Minister for Women & Equalities.
Chair of the Labour Party.
Proud MP for Houghton & Sunderland South.
Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social The Electoral Reform Society is an independent organisation leading the campaign for your democratic rights. Sign up for updates: http://ers.tools/subscribe
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/
Laurence Turner MP @larry-turner.bsky.social Labour MP for Birmingham Northfield🌹
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Claire Hanna MP @clairehanna.bsky.social MP for South Belfast & a social democratic, anti-sectarian, new Ireland. Leader of @sdlp.Bluesky Like arts, sustainability, Europe. Mum of 3 great girls Claire.Hanna.MP@parliament.uk.
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Ben Brindle @benbrindle.bsky.social Senior Researcher at the Migration Observatory, University of Oxford. #itfc fan, for my sins.
For media enquiries, please contact Rob McNeil.
Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social I teach politics at a university in the UK. I'm interested in electoral systems, public opinion, and the politics of non-majoritarian institutions like courts and regulators.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8932-9405
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.
Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social Guardian senior political correspondent. New book, Stress tested, out now: https://tinyurl.com/mhn82a7m
Email: peter.walker@theguardian.com Secure email if needed: peter.walker.guardian@protonmail.com
Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social CEO of @taso.org.uk, Chair of Trust for London, Executive Committee of Political Studies Association. The usual disclaimers.
Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social Professor of Politics. 
Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social Proud Girl Dad, TV Producer, Filmmaker, Vedic Meditation Practitioner, Kitesurfer, Human Rights & Racial Justice Advocate and an Abolitionist!
And I don't act! 😆😆😆👻👻👻
Laurie Penny @pennyred.bsky.social 
Laurie Whitwell @lauriewhitwell.bsky.social Manchester United correspondent for The Athletic
Andy Mitten @andymitten.bsky.social Started United We Stand in ‘89. Work: The Athletic, GQ, National, editor at large for FourFourTwo. Contribute to BBC, Sky et al. Written 13 books. NUJ member.
United We Stand's website and forum http://www.uwsonline.com
Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social Thinking about utopia and the history of Yiddish political thought at Oxford. linktr.ee/shcardin
Sacha Hilhorst @sachahilhorst.bsky.social Hallsworth fellow at University of Manchester & research fellow at Common Wealth. Ajax fan. She/her.
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.
Katjana Gattermann @kgattermann.bsky.social Associate Professor in Political Communication & Journalism @ascor.bsky.social
Co-Leader 'The Future of European Democracy' @acesuva.bsky.social | Media-Politics Relations, EU/European Politics, Election Campaigns, Political Behaviour
Rosie Campbell @profrosiecamp.bsky.social Professor of Politics King’s College London 
Katherine Harloe @katherineharloe.bsky.social Classicist, based in UK. Pessimist.
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social Poetry Critic for the Sunday Times. Anglican Priest. Poetry Collection, "Dirt Rich", out from Carcanet. TLS contributor since 2010. All views very much my own.
Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social Professor of Democratic Politics and Director of the UCL Constitution Unit. Researching democratic reform in the UK and around the world. Views my own.
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social Journalist. Presenter of R4's #MoneyBox Live (Weds, 3pm). Also found on #WakeUpToMoney, #R4Today, BBC 5 Live, #GreenMoneyShow. Enthusiast. Humanist.
Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk 🗳️ Mapping UK Elections & Collating Polling Data
nowcast / posters / much more @ electionmaps.uk
support my work @ https://ko-fi.com/electionmapsuk
Matt Holehouse @mattholehouse.bsky.social Basic bitch Social Democrat and Remainer - Ask me about the Additional Member System!
Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social Contemporary historian #ColdWar #diplomacy
Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Bolton West | Chair APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax
Email: phil.brickell.mp@parliament.uk
Phone: 01204 958 436
Website: www.philbrickellmp.co.uk
Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social • political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6
📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
Dr Nigel Fletcher @nigelfletcher.bsky.social Wanderer in the fourth dimension. British political and constitutional historian. Co-founder, Centre for Opposition Studies.
Distracted by cats and camp classic telly. Will run for cake.
🖊️ 📖 🇬🇧 🏰 🐈⬛ 🏳️🌈 📺 🍰🏃🏻♂️
www.nigelfletcher.org
Alice Goodman @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social 'I never dreamt that I would get to be
the creature that I always meant to be.'
parish priest in the Church of England. Librettist. 
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
Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social Co founder @Byline.com and @BylineTimes.bsky.social. “Destructive British media” according to the Kremlin. Six nominations for sanctions from their Mofo MFA! An Oscar record
Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Prospect Magazine; Principal Editor at Resolution Foundation
The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social History + bad accents, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.
From Goalhanger Podcasts
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Centre for the History of European Integration (CHEI) @chei-leiden.bsky.social The Centre for the History of European Integration (CHEI) brings together scholars working on European integration from a historical perspective. Directed by Dr Matthew Broad @unileiden.bsky.social. Website: https://edu.nl/83xuq
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/
Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
Agent: Landwehr & Cie
Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur
Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar.bsky.social Transport specialist. Writer and broadcaster. Author of 20 books on railways & transport. Host Calling All Stations, transport podcast. Parkrunner, QPR, cyclist, driverless car sceptic. christianwolmar.co.uk My substack https://transportnews.substack.com/
Shaun Spiers @shaunspiers1.bsky.social Former Green Alliance director, CPRE chief executive, and Labour & Co-op MEP. Rochester resident, ever hopeful Gills supporter.
Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com
Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com
Calum Miller @calummillerld.bsky.social MP for Bicester and Woodstock. Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Foreign Affairs.
Promoted by North Oxfordshire Lib Dems, 5C Grange Court, OX14 3NB
Martin Johnes @martinjohnes.bsky.social Historian at Swansea Uni. Books include: Aberfan, Wales since 1939, England's Colony?, Welsh Not, Christmas & the British, History of Sport in Wales.
Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Press Gazette energy & environment journalist of the year 2022
Highly commended:
Society of Editors 2025
Shortlisted:
Press Awards 2025
Press Gazette 2025
AOP 2025
Deputy Ed + Snr Policy Ed, Carbon Brief
simon.evans@carbonbrief.org
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social The real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics. A podcast with Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt.
http://patreon.com/originstorypod
https://linktr.ee/originstorypodcast
Produced by Podmasters
Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social Labour MP for Tipton, Wednesbury and Coseley. Member of the Business and Trade select committee. Proudly repping British industry and the Black Country. Trade unionist, mama, runner, reader
QTs closed, replies open
Rosa Hodgkin @rosahodgkin.bsky.social Researcher at Institute for Government working on climate, energy and resilience policy
Labour Climate and Environment Forum @lcefuk.bsky.social An independent organisation working to strengthen climate and environmental ambition across the labour movement.
Paul McNamee @paulmcnamee.bsky.social Director of @LCEFUK. Woolyback, baker, board game geek
Liz Jestico @lizjestico.bsky.social Researcher at University of Bristol & Senior Lecturer in Children's Nursing at Oxford Brookes University. Interests include health care ethics; child and family wellbeing; & creativity in qualitative research.
Howard Goodall @howardgoodall.bsky.social Composer, lyricist, author, broadcaster
#nufc