Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social Author, producer, scicomms, animation. Royal Institution writer-in-residence.
Books:
Learning To Think (Penguin)
The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins)
Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social ‘The view from the column is ever distant’
Justyna @justynapg.bsky.social 
The Sentry @thesentryorg.bsky.social We're working to disable multinational predatory networks that benefit from violent conflict, repression, and kleptocracy. Learn more: TheSentry.org
Kaye Wiggins @kayewiggins.ft.com US Legal Correspondent at the Financial Times, in New York. Previously in Hong Kong and London
Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com Financial Investigations Editor at the Financial Times.
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com Investigations Correspondent, The Guardian | Tips: henry.dyer@theguardian.com/henrydyer.01 (Signal) | Interested in Politics/Media/🚂/CofE
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/henry-dyer
http://direthoughts.com
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social Words in Unherd, Guardian, Politico, New Statesman, The Spectator, New Humanist, The Fence, The Critic, The Daily Mash, Jamestown Foundation. Usually about Russia-Ukraine. Voice/face on BBC radio/TV and Times Radio.
David Patrikarakos @dpatrikarakos.bsky.social Writer. Books: ‘War in 140 Characters' & 'Nuclear Iran.'
Foreign Correspondent, UnHerd
Special Correspondent, Daily Mail
Host. 90 Seconds to Midnight
Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social British journalist and author
Read me on Substack
https://nickcohen.substack.com/
Gurwinder @gurwinder.bsky.social Examining how technology is affecting human psychology, and how to stay rational in the digital age.
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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.
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk Same as @thomasforth on X. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
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.
Sohrab Ahmari @sohrabahmari.bsky.social US Editor, UnHerd.
Writing my next book, on the triumph for normal, for HarperCollins.
megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social political correspondent, new statesman
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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
Kate Mansey @katemansey.bsky.social Royal Editor and Assistant Editor of The Times of London
Author, Podcaster, Commentator
YouTube: http://surl.li/jnswdy | Pod: https://podfollow.com/1745117658 | Insta: @katemanseywrites | Board @WIJ_UK
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/kate-mansey
Pratinav Anil @pratinavanil.bsky.social historian, feuilletonist, clubland habitué, judgemental judge 
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
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Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Radicalized by discotheque music.
Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert.bsky.social Journalist writing about politics and arts, mother, book-lover. Jewish feminist and social media addict. Londoner.
Alwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social writer/historian/talker
commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social Scottish and sweary and not even sorry. Taking an eternity to write a book. You can stick your ai up your airse.
Also run @theskylark.bsky.social
Richard Strachan @richardstrachan.bsky.social Writer, novels 'The Unrecovered' and 'Night Fire' from Raven Books 2025/26. Stories in The Dark, New Writing Scotland, Weird Horror and more. https://linktr.ee/richstrach
Rep'd: @samedenborough.bsky.social
https://richardstrachan.substack.com/
Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
UnHerd @unherd.com Challenging the herd with new and bold thinking in philosophy, politics and culture.
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Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social A food and culture magazine.
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Moon lover @moon1over.bsky.social This page contains moon pics.DM for credit removal. Some Photoshop image posted .
Robbie Collin @robbiecollin.bsky.social Telegraph (UK) film critic and amateur menswear enjoyer
James Waddell @jameswaddellwrites.bsky.social In the TLS, Economist, Telegraph, The Fence, Observer, Prospect &c / PhD on distraction @UCL / Agent @tobymundy / Overquicke, hastie, rashe, headie and brainsicke
Francisco Garcia @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social I write long form features, essays and investigations for the Financial Times, Guardian and loads of other places. I wrote two nonfiction books published by HarperCollins and am working on my first novel at the moment, along with a bunch of other stuff 
Miranda Sawyer @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, host of @papercutsshow and other chatty bits, I HAVE A BOOK OUT! Uncommon People - Britpop and Beyond In 20 Songs here it is https://amzn.eu/d/g2WxjyS
Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social Research Fellow @ Institute of Advanced Studies Toulouse. PhD from UCL. Human behavioural evolution. Researching kinship, honour, and gender-biased outcomes
Occasionally writing pop science and misc
https://sites.google.com/view/olympialkcampbell/about
Miles Ellingham @milesellingham.bsky.social Senior Writer: @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Contributing Editor: Dispatch Media
Work in: The New York Times, Financial Times, Prospect, The New Statesman, Rolling Stone etc -
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📖 @rcwlitagency
Alice Thomson @alicettimes.bsky.social Columnist/Interviewer on The Times. Presenter with
@RSylvesterTimes of podcast Past Imperfect. Author: The Singing Line/ What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Young
Alex Mar @alex-mar.bsky.social Writer/Journalist.
Debut novel coming in early 2027.
Nonfiction: SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN (NYT Editors' Choice), WITCHES OF AMERICA (NYT Notable Book), longform journalism, doc AMERICAN MYSTIC (Kino Lorber).
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social Data Editor, @thetimes.com
🇬🇧 How is Britain doing? 👉 thetimes.com/data
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Prashant Rao @prashantrao.bsky.social Semafor Senior Editor, responsible for international and climate coverage.
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Ex-The Atlantic and The New York Times in London, AFP in Baghdad
Will Storr @willstorr.bsky.social Author
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/
Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social 
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social — Founder of Our World in Data
— Professor at the University of Oxford
Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu English/Irish/EU in Spain. PhD in psychology. Former data police cadet, now full member of the unchecked research integrity militia. Interested in the lower tail of many distributions. Not yet disabled.
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
Robert Webb @arobert.bsky.social Peep Show, Mitchell & Webb, that kind of thing
Christopher Lasch’s Angry Ghost @ghostofchristo1.bsky.social In a dying culture, narcissism embodies the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment.
Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social Newsletter editor at MS NOW. Part-time journalism teacher at
Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social Deputy Opinion Editor, @theglobeandmail.com. Former Globe and Mail/National Post Books Editor.
Author of Live to See the Day, a national bestseller. https://linktr.ee/mark.medley
Kat Rosenfield @katrosenfi.bsky.social Culturati mafiosi
Caroline Criado Perez @ccriadoperez.bsky.social Writer, speaker, author of Invisible Women
Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social Content Editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation. Dance 10, looks 3
Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745513/the-last-straight-woman-by-phoebe-maltz-bovy/ Opinion ed., The CJN, contributor columnist, The Globe and Mail. Half of Feminine Chaos.
Sarah Ditum @sarahditum.bsky.social Writer, Sunday Times (and UnHerd and the Critic)
TOXIC: WOMEN, FAME AND THE NOUGHTIES out 26 October https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toxic-Sarah-Ditum-ebook/dp/B09ZT37CVW
Julie Burchill @julieburchill.bsky.social Wolves fan, dog lover
Peter Phelps @peterphelps.bsky.social Publisher of Perspective
Fiona Sturges @fionasturges.bsky.social Arts & culture journalist, interviewer, spouter of opinions. Brightonian.
✍🏻: Guardian, FT Weekend, i newspaper, Independent.
"Rampant feminist snowflake" - Piers Morgan
"Well known lunatic" - Man on the internet
Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social millmedia.bsky.social editor/founder. Interested in #localjournalism and low-stakes media drama.
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Cordelia Jenkins @cordeliajenkins.bsky.social Editor of the FT Weekend Magazine
cordelia.jenkins@ft.com
The Fence @thefence.bsky.social Facts, features, fiction, etc. Buy a subscription to the UK's Only Magazine here: https://www.the-fence.com/shop/
Caroline Eden @edentravels.bsky.social Writer about places. Red Sands: Reportage & Recipes Through Central Asia, ‘book of the year’ for the Sunday Times, FT and New Yorker. New memoir 'Cold Kitchen' (Bloomsbury) out now www.carolineeden.com
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com US opinion editor at the Financial Times
Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com Wealth editor, Financial Times. I like swimming, classical music and cryptic crosswords. Working on a memoir about my earlier life at a magazine for the very rich. he/him 🏳️🌈 josh.spero@ft.com
Naomi Joseph @naomijoseph.com Arts and culture editor @uk.theconversation.com
Words and sounds for The Sunday Times, Monocle, Courier, gal-dem, Stylist and others
Tim Hayward @timhayward.bsky.social Hack. Mainly food.
https://linktr.ee/tim.m.hayward
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com FT Magazine Food and Drink editor 
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be 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
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/
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
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
Polly Curtis @pollycurtis.bsky.social Chief executive, Demos; journalist; non exec director, PHSO
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
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
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social Brighton-dwelling World Trade Editor at the Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/peter-foster
Sometime Brexit nerd & author of 'What Went Wrong with Brexit' https://t.co/VsIipD7JBr
Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social Public policy editor based in the Britain section at The Economist
Tim Shipman @shippersunbound.bsky.social Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)
Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social Chief political commentator, The Independent, and visiting professor, the Strand Group, King's College London
Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
John Kampfner @johnkampfner.bsky.social Author, journalist
website: www.jkampfner.net
newsletter: https://johnkampfner.substack.com/
Berlin, London
Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social Freelance writer, full-time reader, commission-me-anytime reviewer. (For many, most of the places you'd imagine, plus some you might not. That's the joy of freelancing...) susiemesure.com
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
Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social Columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times, specialising in Scottish affairs. Also, co-host of The Ponsonby & Massie podcast, available on all pod-platforms. 
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.