Jack Surfleet @jacksurfleet.bsky.social Reporter for BBC News
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Media Storm @mediastormpod.bsky.social 🕵️ Current affairs & investigative news podcast
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life. (DMs are open.) Email tips to: pecksniffsdiary@gmail.com
Diarist for eastangliabylines.co.uk
Aaron Bastani @aaronjbastani.bsky.social Co-Founder @novaramedia / Author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Next book on politics and economics of an ageing planet.
Leanne Wood @leannewood.bsky.social Inspired by nature, ideas & the power of people & their communities.
Co-Executive Director - Ynni Cymunedol Cymru / Community Energy Wales. Recovering politician.
Loves books, painting/art, walking, cold water dipping, family, friends, cakes & gardening
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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social Ancient politics and political thought, modern art, Plato and Xenophon. Fellow of Newnham College, FRHistS. Cambridge and elsewhere. Recent books: Plato: a civic life (Reaktion) and Xenophon (Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics, Cambridge).
Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social Columnist & broadcaster. Presenting for BBC Radio 4, news reviews for This Morning & Sky News. Highly commended/shortlisted Society of Editors' Commentator of the Year 2023 & 2024.
soniasodha.com
NUJ London Freelance @nujlfb.bsky.social @NUJOfficial London Freelance Branch. Supporting indie journalists with our magazine, creative opps, training and events | Meets: 2nd Mon/mo. Run by @nikatalbot.bsky.social
Mostly Comedy @mostlycomedy.bsky.social Popular comedy club consistently hosting the biggest names on the UK scene since 2008. Homebase in Hitchin in Hertfordshire.
Run by David Ephgrave & Dan Graham. All shows hosted by @davidephgrave.bsky.social (‘Devastatingly witty’ - EdFest Magazine).
Paul Webster @paulfwebster.bsky.social Ex Observer editor
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli
wajali.com
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Journalist. Speaker. Writer. Commentator.
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Society. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture. The personal. The structural.
Editor in Chief, Byline Times.
hardeep@bylinetimes.com / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social
David Batty @david-batty.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Guardian: visiting journalism lecturer at City St George’s University. http://www.theguardian.com/profile/davidbatty
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).
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
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
Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social New leadership for Wales 🏴
Arwain Cymru o'r newydd ✊
Hyrwyddwyd gan/Promoted by Plaid Cymru, Tŷ Gwynfor, Caerdydd, CF10 4AL.
Bylines Cymru @bylines.cymru https://bylines.cymru
A participatory citizen journalism community and publication for all in, from, and in love with Wales. Reach out to editor@bylines.cymru
Hitchin Hackspace @hackhitchin.bsky.social An innovative space for makers to create using state of the art tools, in a transformed former public toilet. Come join us to do something out of the ordinary!
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
NationCymru @nation.cymru News • Politics • Culture • Sports 🏴 By the people of Wales, for the people of Wales http://Nation.Cymru
Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.
I conduct investigative journalism and help people better understand Wales/Cymru.
You sign up to my newsletter here: willhaywardwales.substack.com
Columnist at The Guardian.
Michelle Pauli @michellepauli.bsky.social Writer/editor specialising in education - tech - innovation - children's books for LSE, Nesta, Jisc, Advance HE, Books for Keeps. Previously Guardian. Co-writer of weekly connectedlearning.substack.com on latest digital developments for educators
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com Founded MoneySavingExpert, @moneyandmentalhealth.org, (ish) the Martin Lewis Money Show ITV & Martin Lewis Podcast
@thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social A point of view
https://thattimwalker.substack.com/
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social Excited to announce A NEW LIVE TOUR!
The End of The World According to Jonathan Pie
Tickets ON SALE NOW from JonathanPie.com
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
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.
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
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com
Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Substack: substack.com/@dmitryopines
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social Emmy-award-winning journalist
https://lukemcgee.substack.com/
luke@luke-mcgee.com
John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social Economist and occasional politics dabbler. Working on a project to improve labour markets. Associate fellow, Centre for European Reform. Visiting fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Bath University. Accusations of bad faith or lying = block.
Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social Researcher of UK-EU relations, euroscepticism and learning & teaching. Open University and formerly UK in a Changing Europe. Renowned for my bubbly personality, I imagine.
Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social; Professor in EU Law/Deputy HoD at @sdu.dk. EU & #brexit nerd. #Ukraine supporter. Member @ec.europa.eu's expert group on EU Crim Policy. Author of "Normative Foundations of EU Criminal Justice" @hartpublishing.bsky.social
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social Paris-based writer of European allsorts at the Guardian
Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social Professor of Int’l & EU Law, Diplomatic Academy Vienna. Past: Prof., founding Director CIGAD at King's College London, specialist adviser House of Lords EU Select Committee, Référendaire CJEU
Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social Former diplomat, active on foreign policy in Lords. Vice-Chair RUSI, Hon Pres Normandy Memorial, Special Envoy for the Bayeux Tapestry loan. Pop up on the media a bit. New book Peace Makers. https://geni.us/PeaceMakers
Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social Guardian correspondent covering international trade from European perspective, also post Brexit affairs and Ireland Former Brussels corr, Brexit corr + former media corr. Find me at lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com
Liz Webster 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social Founder of Save British Farming, campaigning to reconnect Britain to the EU Single Market and Customs Union to Save British Farming and British Food.
Catherine Barnard @cbarnard.bsky.social Professor of EU law and Employment law, Trinity College Cambridge, senior fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Knows a little bit about EU and Brexit things.
Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social The Centre for European Reform (CER) is an award winning think-tank, devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the EU.
London, Brussels, Berlin
Website: www.cer.eu
Podcast: soundcloud.com/cer_london/ Spotify: https://buff.ly/7aKvyUs
Shona Murray @shonamurray.bsky.social Europe Correspondent Euronews. Based in Brussels. Edward R. Murrow alum. Euronews.com
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)
LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me UK-cit ES-res European, "dangerously continental". Federalist, inc UK → Schengen, €. en fr de ca es. #FBPE. M: @littlegravitas@c.im. lgrav24[a]privateum.net. ✔️ e2e 🚫 crypto! Signal. Kagi search. No non-friend DMs. I mostly follow back - and I block back.
Peter Ungphakorn @coppetainpu.bsky.social In 🇨🇭, from all over. Mainly trade. Journalist. WTO Secretariat 1996-2015. Usual disclaimers. Member: http://fmg-geneva.org.
Web: https://tradebetablog.wordpress.com/ (follow for alerts)
Prof David Bailey @dgbailey.bsky.social #industrialstrategy Birmingham Business School, UK in a Changing Europe Senior Fellow, Contemporary Social Science Editor in Chief, Editor Regional Studies, ‘activist academic’ (Gove’s 🪓man Max Caller), media commentator, Likes EVs. Baggies fan.
Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com Author and commentator. Book: 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns'. Busy AI coding.
Topics: AI & fun geeky stuff, Brexit & UK politics. Expect facts & stats, sarcasm and gallows humour.
Handy tools: https://www.superuseful.com/
Me: https://www.edwinhayward.com/
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor | history of migration and diaspora | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
Anna Jerzewska @annajerzewska.bsky.social Founder of Trade and Borders. Customs and Trade Facilitation. Brexit veteran
Thomas Sampson @thomsampson.bsky.social International Trade. Brexit.
Associate Professor, LSE Economics.
Nick Tyrone @nicktyrone.bsky.social Author, journalist. Noted for not liking Brexit a great deal.
Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social 📖 Writer 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier owner 📖 https://t.co/BjHB4lzjMG
Joël Reland @jreland.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at UK in a Changing Europe. Looking at UK-EU relations, regulatory divergence and European politics.
Kirsty Hughes @kirstyshughes.bsky.social European, Scottish and UK politics - and sometimes photography/nature/landscapes. Blogs on Europe & Scotland https://open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhughes?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8ztbl
Joelle Grogan @joellegrogan.bsky.social Presenter #TheLawShow @ BBC Radio 4 | Co-Academic Director #RuleofLaw Clinic @ CEU Democracy Institute | Visiting Senior Research Fellow @UCD Sutherland School of Law
Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social Borders | ontosec | migration | citizenship
Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org Civic entrepreneur building broadsheet social media at kronkite.social. Lobbyist for electric planes.
I chair Unhack Democracy, do green libertarianism @ epicenternetwork.eu
My substackSurvival & Success on liberalism and globalisation: garvanwalshe.org
Katy Hayward @katyhayward.bsky.social As it turns out, a Professor of Political Sociology at Queen's University Belfast working in & on the island of Ireland.
Own my own views.
http://go.qub.ac.uk/hayward
David Phinnemore @dphinnemore.bsky.social Professor of European Politics, Queen's University Belfast. EU politics, treaty reform, enlargement, Brexit/Protocol/Windsor Framework
Cleo Davies @cleodavies.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations at Forward College in Paris. Formerly with PAIS Warwick Uni on project ‘Living with the Neighbours: the UK, the EU and wider Europe' - UK in a Changing Europe.
Darran Marshall @dmarshall.bsky.social BBC News NI
Politics Producer | Senior Journalist.
On Twitter @DarranMarshall
Based in Belfast / Tyrone
Alyn Smith MSP 🏴🇪🇺 @alynsmith.bsky.social Scottish European. MSP for Stirling. Minister for Innovation, Technology and Tertiary Education.
(Photo the brilliant @thekiltedphoto.bsky.social)
Alexander Rose @alexanderrose.bsky.social Lawyer specialising in Public Funding, Subsidy Control and related issues. Previously worked at European Commission and in UK Civil Service. Very excited about effective regeneration.
Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social Previously: UK Labour Party Leader in EurParliament, Yorks&Humber MEP, NEC, ShadowCabinet
Currently: EM, LME, writing & lecturing
Brexit was a costly mistake.
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Lisa James @lisajames.bsky.social Researcher at the Constitution Unit, working on the Constitutional Principles and Health of Democracy project. Co-author, The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit.
Derrick Wyatt's Law and Policy Blog @blogwyatt.bsky.social Derrick Wyatt KC, retired Oxford professor and lawyer
Law and Politics
Geopolitics and how to cope with Trump and Putin
Blog at http://derrickwyatt.substack.com
Peter Holmes @pholmes8.bsky.social Semi-retired trade economist, Emeritus @ UKTPO Sussex. Posts about Brexit, Freeports, WTO and anything else that catches my fancy. Migrating across from other place. Tweeted as @pholmes8. Blogs with others at https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/blog/
Brendan Donnelly @brendanpdonnelly.bsky.social Former Conservative MEP. Rejoiner as soon as possible.
In Limbo @inlimbobrexit.bsky.social Official account of the In Limbo Project.
Testimonies from EU27 citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the EU about the real impact of Brexit.
EFTA4UK @efta4uk.bsky.social Looking for a workable 🇬🇧 relationship with Europe without the political entanglements of EU membership since 2014. Big fans of the EFTA 4 🇳🇴🇨🇭🇮🇸🇱🇮
Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social Still raging about the abject moral abomination of Brexitism.
SimonFraser @simonfraser00.bsky.social Chair of Chatham House. Founding partner of Flint Global. Former Perm Sec at UK Foreign Office and Business Department.
Chris Kendall @ottocr.at Anglo-Schwäbisch eurocrat | maker of EU foreign policy & spätzle | guerrilla knitter | cross-Channel commuter | was once @ottocrat | personal capacity
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
Buy my book👇
https://tr.ee/ElementalBookshopOrg
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If you don't want to buy my book, you could buy me a coffee👇
https://ko-fi.com/snellarthur
UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social UK in a Changing Europe is an academic think tank providing impartial, research-based analysis of the critical issues facing the UK.
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/
Georgina Wright (on leave) @georginaewright.bsky.social Britain, France & Brussels thinking at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Jessica Simor KC @jmpsimor.bsky.social Barrister, environment, energy, public law, human rights. Visiting Prof LSE & Goldsmiths.
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
Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social Director of the Hansard Society, working to make Parliament more effective.
🎧 Co-host of the Parliament Matters podcast | https://hansardsociety.start.page/
Sophia Besch @sophiabesch.bsky.social Senior Fellow Europe @CarnegieEndowment.org, DC
Adjunct lecturer @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
Previously @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social
Sydney Nash @nashsgc.bsky.social Former civil servant, U.K./EU negotiator, U.K. automotive Brexit & international trade lead, former this, that and the other, always Palace
Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge. Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Blog: www.publiclawforeveryone.com. Website: www.markelliott.org
Nicole @nicoledso.bsky.social We finally got rid of the Tories 🥳 but haven’t got rid of Brexit which is causing untold damage. 🇬🇧 🇦🇪
Penny Stuart @lostindisco.bsky.social Centre left politics junkie, polite but quietly furious. RTs are not endorsements.
Same handles on 🐘 and X.
Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social Insights on Japanese business in UK, Europe, EMEA.
www.rudlinconsulting.com also www.japanintercultural.com
Also occasional art, cats, Japanese acrobats #TOTP
Conn MacEvilly @conmachiavel.bsky.social Woodkern by inclination, kern by trade.
Interested in law and public policy, defence, information security and the climate emergency.