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Will Lloyd @willoyd.bsky.social Senior Writer, FT Weekend
Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Investigations, writing, broadcast, newsreading, BBC Radio Newcastle etc Editor, The Teesside Lead 🔗 https://theteessidelead.substack.com Moby-Dick podcast: 🐳 @thewhale1851.bsky.social Teesworks expert. Oh, and once I saw a blimp.
Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com Senior Markets Correspondent at the Financial Times. Previously insurance, finance, stocks, pensions, you get the idea. This is my real account: I never promote crypto or any other investment Stories: https://www.ft.com/ian-smith Contact: ian.smith@ft.com
Amie Ferris-Rotman @amiefr.bsky.social Global News Editor, New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag
James Tapper @jamestapper.bsky.social Journalist at The Observer / observer.co.uk I write about science, health and other things.
Oliver Roeder @okr.bsky.social i edit stories at the @financialtimes.com weekend magazine
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Cordelia Jenkins @cordeliajenkins.bsky.social Editor of the FT Weekend Magazine cordelia.jenkins@ft.com
Margaret Osborne @margaretosborne.bsky.social Freelance science writer, editor, reporter and producer Clips in Smithsonian, Live Science, WSHU Public Radio, Yale Medicine (she/her)
William Ralston @ralstonwilliam9.bsky.social Writer | Guardian L-R; FT Weekend; Vanity Fair; GQ; The Atavist; Bloomberg Businessweek, WIRED || Author of ‘The Impossible Job,’ for Viking Books. ralston.william9@gmail.com
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
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
Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social 100% pure nuance. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathan-liew
HK @hkesvani.bsky.social Journalist who mostly does Dad Posting. talk from time to time on @trashfuture.bsky.social and @10kpostspodcast.bsky.social
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social Subscribe on Substack: Arguably.uk
Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art equator.org
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales) London Assembly Member. 🏳️‍🌈 Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Jennie Clough @jennieclough.bsky.social Gastro Consultant in Exeter. Immunology PhD KCLImmunoMicro. Gut_BMJ ambassador. Associate Editor FrontGastro_BMJ. Singer Exeter Philarmonic
@poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social @poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social
Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social Exec Director & founder, Uplift; "provocative and not entirely without merit" according to Energy Voice, Standard disclaimers, incl. that all views are my own.
Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social Political editor of The Observer. Sign up for my weekly newsletter here: https://observer.co.uk/newsletters
Hannah Rosefield @hannahrosefield.bsky.social editing at The Dial and elsewhere sometime Victorianist, London Library emerging writer 25/26
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑‍🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk Substack https://substack.com/@willd10 Williamdavies.blog
Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social Dad. Science Teacher. Author of books including “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?”, "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder" and “How to Find a Rainbow”. Lots of free stuff and more about me at alomshaha.com
The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social All the tweets I love, a few I hate. A few skeets too! Posted individually this time instead of threaded Posting in large batches, pls address complaints to dennisbhooper Alt text added but reply w/ additional description as you see fit. Also bluesky @‘s
Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk Editor of Politics.co.uk ✍️ Subscribe to my free newsletter 👇 https://www.politics.co.uk/subscribe/
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate . https://www.patreon.com/dril https://www.instagram.com/dril https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social Defector, normal gossip, novels, etc newsletter here: https://buttondown.com/mckinneykelsey
Niki Seth-Smith @nikisethsmith.bsky.social Editor of @newhumanist.bsky.social, journalist and fiction writer 🍐
Jonathan Shainin @shainin.bsky.social
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.
Claire Wilmot @clairelwilmot.bsky.social Journalist/writer/researcher | visiting postdoc fellow, London School of Economics | before: TBIJ, UofT | epistemology, tech, corruption, legal systems, gender. https://www.instagram.com/clairelwilmot?igsh=MWl2dmJzYjY2YWh2Ng%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social Editorial Director at Duckworth Books
Marisa Bate @marisabate.bsky.social Feminist journalist, author, newsletter-writer and mother. AND STILL WE MARCH is out now. Sign up to Writing About Women on Substack.
Megha Mohan @meghamohan.bsky.social Author of HERLANDS: lessons from societies where women make the rules
Louise Tickle @louisetickle.bsky.social Loves puffins. Dreams of Skomer. Writing novel 2. First slowly. Then faster.
Hannah Summers @hansummers.bsky.social Investigative journalist/ family courts for @tbij.bsky.social |Best specialist journalist 2023 - Freelance Journalism Awards |Media Freedom Awards winner 2025
May Bulman @maybulman.bsky.social Investigations editor @lhreports.bsky.social, formerly social affairs corro at The Independent DMs open | email: may@lighthousereports.com | Signal: 00447919210950
Basia Cummings @basialc.bsky.social Editor, digital The Observer
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social Deputy ed at Inside Housing
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/
Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social North of England correspondent at the Guardian. Mostly here to make bad jokes
Esther Addley @estheraddley.bsky.social Guardian senior news writer, Derry Girl. Likes old stones and potatoes.
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social Just a journalist, actor, broadcaster, singer, dreamer (in no particular order)… rep Red Talent Management. AuDHer 🧠 Views my own 💭 ✨
Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social Writer, reporter, editor, all-around delight. Work lots of places. Author of THE INFLUENCE OF SOROS and BAD JEWS. Working on new book on Holocaust remembrance. Don’t yell at me. emilyctamkin@gmail.com. emilyctamkin.substack.com.
Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum. heather.stewart@theguardian.com
Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction," and “Life on a Little-Known Planet." Learn more at elizabethkolbert.com.
Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged, and other books. Guardian, Architects' Journal, iPaper, Observer, whatever. Grandpa. STATE PENSIONER.
Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com FT Magazine Food and Drink editor
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
gazelle emami @gazelleemami.bsky.social editorial director, new york magazine
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).
@davidedgarwolf.bsky.social @davidedgarwolf.bsky.social Editor, The Guardian Long Read
Cal Flyn @calflyn.bsky.social Author of the Sunday Times bestseller ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: LIFE IN THE POST-HUMAN LANDSCAPE—a book about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places. Currently at work on THE SAVAGE LANDSCAPE, expected early 2026
The Story @thestoryau.bsky.social A print magazine about storytelling. Other things, too. Grab a copy at https://thestory.bigcartel.com.
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else). New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Jason Okundaye @jaseokundaye.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian and assistant opinion editor
Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social Southern Africa Correspondent at The Guardian. Brit abroad.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting - IWPR @iwpr.net IWPR gives voice to people at the frontlines of conflict and transition to help them drive change.
Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist. Send tips via Signal: 202-510-1268. Join my newsletter 👇👇👇 kenklippenstein.substack.com
Cslmn @rapsacnomlas.bsky.social Writer, beauty queen, haver of takes. "A tiny man" - John Cleese
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social Freelance journalist & photojournalist covering Syria, the Middle East, and breaking global news. Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool
Rob Fearn @robfearn.bsky.social Assistant editor, The Guardian Saturday magazine. Gradually weaning myself off The Bad Place
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Hassan Hassan @hhassan.bsky.social Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social Host C4N Fourcast Indicators pod, writing @Sunday Times, ex-BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime Newsnight presenter 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils, Tank & more!
Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social Writer, Teacher | helping people write and be heard | Founder, Fasano Academy, educating the whole human being
Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social Drugs and organised crime journalist. Orwell Prize winner. Author, Narcomania. Former Global Drugs Editor, Vice. maxdaly.com
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously). Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social Labour MP for Nottingham East • Nottingham born and bred • she/her 🌹🏹🏳️‍🌈
@sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social Journalist & Presenter | 📻 Formerly LBC ‘Sangita Myska 1-4pm Weekends ’, BBC @Radio4 Documentaries & 📺@BBCNews TV | @JSchofieldTrust | RTs not an endorsement
Sarfraz Manzoor @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social I am a screenwriter (Blinded by the Light), author (Greetings from Bury Park, They), journalist (Guardian, Times and lots of others), I teach at UCL and am working on my first stage play. Mostly though I am a husband and father of two young children.
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/
Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social Head of Parliamentary Affairs at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding). http://instagram.com/josephwillits/ https://linktr.ee/josephwillits Palestine, Lebanon, Parliament. From between Junction 12/13 of the M6. Not funny, but tweets my own.
Jessica Beck @drjessbeck.bsky.social Producer @bloomberg 🎧 The Mishal Husain Show Past: 🎧 @guardian 📻 @NPR @BBC Heist w/ Michael Caine 🎧 @audible
Amos Schonfield @ajschonfield.bsky.social Refugee and migrant rights advocate // Founder & CEO @oursecondhome.org.uk // AWFC masochist // Unsubtly bearded // Unfathomably Jewish // he/him
Noa Landau @noalandau.bsky.social Haaretz Deputy Editor in Chief
Juliet Whitley @julietwhitley.bsky.social Head of Health and Demography - British High Commission Abuja, Nigeria
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own. Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Xavier Greenwood @xaviergreenwood.bsky.social Senior editor at The Observer. I edit The Sensemaker and report across print and digital. Previously made podcasts for Tortoise.
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Melissa Denes @melissadenes.bsky.social Journalist and writer. Formerly Guardian, New Statesman, Times and Sunday Times
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com Any tips or info you’d like to share? Signal premthakker.35 Prem@zeteonews.com https://linktr.ee/premthakker
Jamie Tahsin @jamietahsin.bsky.social Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker | 'The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate' (BBC) 'The Teenage Mafia Academy' (VICE)
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary. Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
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