Chris Sibthorpe @chrissibthorpe.bsky.social Journalist at BBC News and BBC World Service. Stories to: Chris.Sibthorpe@bbc.co.uk
Simon Jack @simonjackbbc.bsky.social BBC Business Editor
Today Programme
Good Bad Billionaire
Ione Wells @ionewells.bsky.social Foreign Correspondent for BBC News, covering South America 🎥 Based in São Paulo 🌎 Also covering the US election 🇺🇸 On loan from BBC Politics. Also write & present. 
James Waterhouse @jameswaterhouse.bsky.social BBC Paris Correspondent | was Ukraine |used to play rugby | UAL honorary fellow
@faisalislam.bsky.social @faisalislam.bsky.social 
Anthony Zurcher @zurch.bsky.social BBC North America correspondent. A Texan who explains US politics to Brits, UK politics to Americans & Canadian politics to everyone. Views expressed ≠ BBC's
Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social Policy and analysis correspondent, BBC Verify.
https://www.benchu.co.uk/
Author of "Exile Economics: What Happens if Globalisation Fails", published May 2025
https://linktr.ee/exileeconomics
Beth Cooper 🏏 @bethcooper.fyi It's nice to be nice. Appreciate what you have, not what you don't. Follow your heart. Pay tax. Give blood. Sponsor me for the 2026 Loch Ness Marathon https://www.justgiving.com/page/bethcooper
Curator of cricket starter packs (see pinned post)
Gerri @gerbelean.bsky.social Living with MS and ADHD in the best way I can. Open University student. Interested in HSD, EDS, ME/CFS, Long Covid, neurodiversity, and neuroplasticity. Everything is connected, and that includes our environment and politics. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
Aaron @tacdominator.bsky.social West Ham fan ⚒️ Diablo Immortal
Sports/political opinion (sometimes)
Formally of Twitter since 2009
Grok Of Shit 🚽 @grokofshit.bsky.social I am a bot that creates fascinating new facts, but not using AI.
Random Smash Hits @randomsmashhits.bsky.social Random pages from Smash Hits. A bot by Rob Manuel.
Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social Anonymous opinions written by YOU - sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and often niche. Edited by @robmanuel.b3ta.com - add yours: https://bit.ly/addanonopin
Tinfoil Matt @tinfoil-matt.bsky.social The brain worm infestation caused by living next to Telegraph opinions every day
Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com B3ta.com, @fesshole.bsky.social, @anonopin.bsky.social
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social Cricket, leg-spin, Jew, PR, journalism, Coeliac. Be nice…
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Robin Edwards @robinedwards.bsky.social Cheese enthusiast. Beer fan. Arsenal supporter. BBC Radio News assistant editor.
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David Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social A man & a dog. Come for pictures of Wilbur 🐶, stay for #Pittsburgh Sports, #mufc musings and general randomness. Ex-weatherdude. Completely preposterous, but absolutely human.
Native of Manchester, now in the Democratic People's Republic of Bromsgrove.
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
Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social Author, journalist, and Guardian Blind Date superfan. A body like Arnold with a Denzel face. (he/him)
theguyliner.com
theguyliner.substack.com
Wanstead Fringe Festival @wansteadfringe.bsky.social 2026 season: September 5th - 26th.
Our fringe festival is a celebration of the arts, performance, literature, music and film.
Wanstead Fringe is a CIC. New recruits and co-conspirators welcome! Made in Wanstead. Est. 2013.
www.wansteadfringe.org
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social Private Eye hack and Page 94 podcaster. Author of the 🏳️🌈Tommy Wildeblood thriller series , and ghost stories: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034N6PK4
Louis O'Brien @louobrien19.bsky.social Freelance Senior Journalist BBC News | #TomorrowsPapersToday
Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social millmedia.bsky.social editor/founder. Interested in #localjournalism and low-stakes media drama.
AnnieAshton2705 @annieashton2705.bsky.social Husband, Luke Ashton, died from gambling-related suicide 22.04.21 // PhD student, Lincoln University investigating gambling-related suicide. Co-Investigator, GamLearn. Leicester.
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
ProdnoseAsWas @lordshortcake.bsky.social Formerly famous fat head & farceur, inventor of the Zeelman Flay (pat. pending) and one half of Danny Kelly's Performing Rat Wonderland. Sole Ambassador for Threadgold's Thorough-Grip Garterettes
Currently kicking the legs up here: patreon.com/dannybaker
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Mark Allison @markyallison.bsky.social Writer and broadcast journalist / Contributor for BBC Culture, Little White Lies / Listen to the colour of your dreams
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Mark Sandell @marksandell.bsky.social 6Foot6 Productions.
No.1 True Crime podcast "Answers for Claudia".
British Podcast Gold 2024 "And Then Came Breast Cancer".
Visiting Lecturer, podcasting at City University.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Donna Rees @donnarees.bsky.social Sometime actor, full time autism Mummy, lover of theatre, film. music and comedy.
Dr Kelcey Wilson-lee @kwilsonlee.bsky.social Medieval historian & heritage wonk; FSA. Director of Programmes & Deputy CEO @archhfund. Also President Monumental Brass Society; Trustee Cambridge Past, Present & Future.
Alex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social Executive Director, Institute for Government. Ex-Cabinet Office, Defra, Dept of Health. Interested in all things good government
K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social Socialist Beard Wearer Historian, Trade Unionist, Anti-Racist Tottenham & Cardiff, cat lover,CAMRA member since 1975
Daniel Sandford @bbcdaniels.bsky.social I am UK/Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. Police, prisons, law, crime and terrorism. Before that Moscow Correspondent so still post about Russia/Ukraine.
Ukraine Cricket @ukrainecricket.bsky.social Since 1993 🇺🇦🏏
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Dave Kelly @davekellyefc.bsky.social Socialist, Trade Unionist and Evertonian. Chair of Fans Supporting Foodbanks. Chair of EFC fan Advisory Board. Views & opinions expressed are mine & mine only
Tim Burrows @timburrows.bsky.social Writer, Guardian and others. The Invention of Essex is published by Profile Books: http://bit.ly/3Bj9lLi
Guardian profile: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tim-burrows
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/timburrows
Agent: ZRoss@unitedagents.co.uk
Nil @nilwhu.eurosky.social Vinyl record player and Westham United FC.
Expect to see pictures of both.
Seattle Seahawks and Cricket enthusiast. Collect 2000AD.
@henrimurison.bsky.social @henrimurison.bsky.social 
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
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
Robert Rea @robertrea.bsky.social Ex-BBC News, now freelance journalist/sub-ed/media trainer/whatever. Reluctant runner, Chelsea fan, lover of shouty music. Went viral once about standing in a queue
@eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social The art of the East London Group. Also on Instagram:- http://instagram.com/eastlondongroup/ & Facebook http://facebook.com/EastLondonGroup. All images: copyrighted. Find out more about the Group here:- https://www.eastlondongroup.co.uk/ 
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social Financial journalist, broadcaster, and speaker. Seek the truth, find the truth, tell the truth. Unequivocally for free speech & press. Wilkie Collins expert too
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writer about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
About lore and culture at The Busy Town.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
(Account sometimes deactivated when not in use.)
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
Robert Banks @robbanks68.bsky.social Brazil, West Ham, Music, Love and Understanding.
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
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Jamie Whitehead @jamiewhitehead.bsky.social Ava, Nancy and Nell’s dad. BBC News live page and sometimes other digital bits.
I like a lot of music most people think is ridiculous.
Luxmy Gopal @luxmy.bsky.social Journalist, Reporter, Presenter
BBC News, BBC Breakfast, BBC London || Ex BBC Look North, BBC Jersey
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.
The Old Fools Podcast @oldfoolspod.bsky.social Writers Ian Martin and David Quantick are joined by a female co-host to grumble their way through another week. IT'S REALLY FUNNY. https://pod.link/1774465485
Callum May @callummay.co.uk News person. The usual stuff.
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
@bentegg.bsky.social @bentegg.bsky.social 
Pierre-Antoine Denis @pierreantoinedenis.bsky.social Senior Journalist BBC News
Football commentator for BBC World Service
Alfie Tobutt @alfietobutt.bsky.social Senior journalist and producer at BBC News. Only on here to post the newspaper front and back pages a day early.
Mark Machado @markmachado.bsky.social Content Creator
Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social BBC News in Westminster
LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
Andy Ivy @andyivy.bsky.social Retired from🎙️ 📻 Ride a bit 🚲Watch ⚽ Cambridge Utd and Bromley FC
Grafix posters 365posterblog.com/shop @grafixp.bsky.social Poster lover posting daily poster pics. Shop at 365posterblog.com/shop Instagram 365poster.blog
Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One published by Bloomsbury 9 October. Water news, London history, laundry, ghost pubs etc. Former BBC correspondent…
Ian Deeley @iandeeley.com Audio Processor, Austin Rover.
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
@stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
James Cook @bbcjamescook.bsky.social Scotland Editor, BBC News
Occasional presenter of Newscast
Ex North America Correspondent
@afeg.bsky.social @afeg.bsky.social 
Chris Page @chrispagejourno.bsky.social BBC News Ireland Correspondent.
Ashley Armstrong @aarmstrongsays.bsky.social Business Editor - The Sun.
Former Retail and M&A Editor at The Times and The Daily & Sunday Telegraph.
Zoë Billingham @zoebillingham.bsky.social Director of IPPR North in Manchester. Economist focused on people’s lived experience. Regional policy. Views my own.
Newham Bookshop @newhambookshop.bsky.social Est in 1978, Newham Books is one of east London's leading independent bookshops. With an extensive events programme, check out some of the authors coming up.
www.newhambooks.co.uk
The Wanstead Tap @thewansteadtap.bsky.social Award winning venue space specialising in author talks, live music, great independent beer range. Funded by no one but our great supporters
RadioToday - UK & Ireland @handle.invalid Radio industry news and views
Emily Turner @etwritehome.bsky.social Storyteller and prolific public transport rider. Host of Roundel Round We Go podcast. Professional gadabout usually found on a bus.
Trying to visit every branch of every chain supermarket in London.
she/they
https://linktr.ee/emilytakesthebus
Caroline Wyatt @carolinewyatt.bsky.social Journalist, presenter BBC R4 Saturday PM. Former foreign correspondent. Living with MS.
Roger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social Edited 24 editions of CAMRA Good Beer Guide. Founder British Guild of Beer Writers. Twice winner Glenfiddich Drink Writer of the Year. 20 plus books including Family Brewers of Britain. West Ham fan
protzonbeer.co.uk
Bryan’s Gunn @bryansgunn.bsky.social A football man
Paul Rowley @paulrowleyradio.com Freelance Journalist / Broadcaster.
Ex BBC Political Correspondent. Radio documentary maker, Wigan Athletic reporter. Ex IRN, LBC, ITN, Radio City, Bootle Times, Southport Visiter.
Twitter/X: @PaulRowleyRadio
Max Preston @maxpreston86.bsky.social Sky News journalist - working chiefly on "The Wrap".
Re-posts aren't endorsements. Views mine; not Sky's.
Still on that other app, but migrating away.
Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social I guess my short CV is: Albums, scores, producer, DJ, booker prize judge 2024, Ivor Novello lifetime achievement award, 9 hon. doctorates, patron PRS foundation, 24 awards and a CBE
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Narinder Kalsi @narinderkalsi01.bsky.social I work for BBC News, likes and reposts are not endorsements. Views (rarely expressed) my own. **I repost graphic content. Find me on IG @ninkalsi
Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social Deputy Football Editor at @theguardian.com I Random thoughts & rubbish jokes
Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social Editor in Chief of @politicshome.bsky.social and @thehousemag.bsky.social. Exhausted.
John MacL @johnmacl.bsky.social Documentary director & scone afficianado
Glasgow, Scotland.
@listerprod.bsky.social @listerprod.bsky.social 
Noah Keate @noahkeate.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Sunday Crunch Author for @politico.eu. Loves cats, Edinburgh, 'The Archers', trains and Earl Grey Tea. Email: nkeate@politico.co.uk
Tom Rawstorne @rawsty.bsky.social Journalism-loving journalist with a lifelong love of cricket, a new-found penchant for padel and an interest in rural affairs and politics.
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~ Author of 7 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ Ex-HORRIBLE HISTORIES BBC TV 📺🤣
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻