Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
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Georgia Banjo @georgiabanjo.bsky.social Writing mostly about health, innovation and people. Britain correspondent at The Economist.
Steph Boland @stephanieboland.bsky.social Alright in a sort of a limited way for an off night
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
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Michael Clarke @mikeclarke2020s.bsky.social Defence and Security Analyst. Former Director General, Royal United Services Institute. Former Professor of Defence Studies, King's College London. Now Visiting Professor at KCL and University of Exeter and holds Fellowships at a number of institutions.
William Ellis @willellisecon.bsky.social Senior Economist at IPPR, focussing on the macro economy. Ex-HMT and Oxford Economics. Special interest in macro and AI/Automation. All views are my own.
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social Correspondent in Paris for The Observer.
Writing a book about feminism and football.
Author of DESIRE PATHS, a memoir (2025).
Co-founder of The Gender Beat.
Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://peteapps.substack.com
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
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Kevin Cashman @cashman.bsky.social America watching, and thinking about anti-militarism and climate @transitionsec.bsky.social | fellow Economists for Peace & Security and Just Foreign Policy | previously @ceprdc.bsky.social | 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧
Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social Irish Times writer & author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea & now, out in June, Experts in a Dying Field. You can preorder here: https://linktr.ee/expertsinadyingfield
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social United Nations Humanitarian Chief.
Ex Principal, Hertford College, Oxford; Ambassador, No 10, NYU Prof.
Diplomat, writer, educator, humanitarian.
Olivia O'Sullivan @oliviaosullivan.bsky.social Director, UK in the World programme, Chatham House. Formerly HMG's Open Innovation Team, Cabinet Office, & DFID. 
Marion Messmer @mgmessmer.bsky.social Programme Director for International Security at Chatham House
Former BASIC, King's College London
Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social Editor & host of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social Environmental journalist. Founder of investigative journalism non-profit https://watershedinvestigations.com/
Bylines: @guardian @thetimes @bbc @SkyNews @itv
Ex: @TheENDSReport @PenguinUKBooks @independent
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
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Golden Goal @goldengoalmag.bsky.social a magazine about the 2026 World Cup
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Katrina Manson @katrinamanson.bsky.social Author of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare
https://wwnorton.com/books/project-maven
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
James Kynge @jkynge.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House.
Audiobook: Global Tech Wars: China's Race to Dominate https://open.spotify.com/show/0j6iVkv3wIXkj1twQcZoq0
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Ryan Evans @ryanevans.bsky.social Founder, War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com) and Bedrock Knowledge (thebedrock.co). Opinions are my own. I'm not a journalist so please don't mistake me for one.
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.
Anita Riotta @anitariotta.bsky.social Producer, 'The Foreign Desk' and Monocle Radio; Sicilian New Yorker in London; interista nell'anima
Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
Carey Oppenheim @careyoppenheim.bsky.social Working at the Nuffield Foundation on Young People, Early Childhood, former CEO, Early Intervention Foundation. Views my own.
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
David Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social Ex-Foreign Office adviser to Robin Cook. Politics, foreign policy, football. Scottish 🏴. Firmly left. HMFC🇱🇻MUFC🇾🇪.
Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social We're one of the largest providers of free immigration advice in London. We give advice, provide support, and campaign so that migrants & refugees in the UK can live with safety, dignity & respect.
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social 100% pure nuance.
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Sushant Singh @sushantsingh.bsky.social Lecturer, Yale University || Consulting Editor, The Caravan
[More: http://tiny.cc/YaleSushant]
Earlier: Indian Army || Indian Express || Centre for Policy Research
Books: Mission Overseas || Note by Note: The India Story 1947-2017
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
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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.
Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social Journalist at the Financial Times, ex London Centric. Not the former chancellor. Email me on rachel.rees@ft.com
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE coming April 2027. Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
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Turkey recap @turkeyrecap.bsky.social The independent, reader-supported newsletter on Turkish politics & business. Pun-tification included. Türkçe için: @studyorecap.bsky.social
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
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
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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social Writer, historian, Contrib Ed, FT, Robert Bosch Fellow, Berlin, author These Divided Isles, and Britain Alone (both Faber), British, Irish and European. philipstephens.substack.com, philipstephens.net
Carl Bildt @cbildt.bsky.social Co-Chair European Council on Foreign Relations. Former PM and FM of Sweden. And other things.
Claret & Blue Podcast @claretbluepod.bsky.social Discover the award-winning Claret & Blue Podcast. 🎙️ Find us on YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcasts.
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Chloe Hadavas @hadavas.bsky.social senior editor & books, @foreignpolicy.com
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Yemen Data Project @yemendataproject.org Independent data collection project. Collating and disseminating data on airstrikes in Yemen since 2015, with the purpose of increasing transparency and promoting accountability.
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Iona Craig @ionacraig.com Journalist + OSINT airstrikes data @yemendataproject.org
Mostly Yemen/Arabian Peninsula since 2010. Once-upon-a-time I trained racehorses.
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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social Enjoy The Observer journalism in print every Sunday, and digitally, seven days a week 🗞️
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary.
Posting in a personal capacity.
Texts mostly in LRB, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Architectural Review.
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Bex Sander @bexsander.bsky.social Data and Graphics reporter
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.
Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social Health Editor at The Sunday Times. Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety
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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
Charlotte Ivers @charlotteivers.bsky.social Sunday Times restaurant critic and staff writer
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/
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social Deputy director, Centre for European Reform, London @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social . Supporter of democracy, the rule of law, the EU & Ukraine. Opponent of authoritarianism, corruption & Putin's Russia.
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
Jerome Drevon @jeromed.bsky.social Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Last book on HTS's rise to power in Syria, Transformed by the People
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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helenmakesmaps @helenmakesmaps.bsky.social Cartographer, data visualizer, beans on toast defender.
helenmakesmaps.com for tutorials
Grace Robertson 🏳️⚧️ @graceonfootball.com Football writer, from the newsletter with the same name and occasionally elsewhere. Non-football stuff @gemofamara.com.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Rob Crilly @robcrilly.bsky.social Chief US Correspondent for The Telegraph. One time AfPak correspondent and Africa hand. Author of Saving Darfur. DC red dog
Glenna Gordon @glennagordon.bsky.social 📷 🚑⚡️🍎
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Previous: NYC, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda, etc.
Also: teacher, emt, occasional writer.
New: SCUBA! Let's dive. 
David McKenzie @davidgmckenzie.bsky.social Former long-time CNN correspondent - inside the beltway now - communications professional - dad - traveller (in no particular order). 
Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science person, more... I run http://bennett.ox.ac.uk making tools+papers from data http://OpenSAFELY.org http://OpenPrescribing.net
Joe Caluori @joecaluori.bsky.social Director of Crime, Justice & Security at the National Centre for Social Research. County lines / CCE, youth violence, counter-extremism, VAWG, drug policy. Posting in a personal capacity.
Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social Law Prof at AUWCL |Exec. Editor at Just Security |Mama of 4 fab young ppl |Fmr Washington Post, Reuters, International Criminal Court| Atrocity prevention, tech, climate |Proud #firstgen | Open water swimmer| 
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Barry Malone @barrymalone.bsky.social Journalist and commentator. Past: EP The Stream / Digital Editor Al Jazeera English / Reuters in Africa and Middle East. Jackeen.
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Loot and Plunder @andrewheavens.bsky.social By Andrew Heavens, author of "The Prince and the Plunder", about how Britain took piles of loot and one small boy from Ethiopia.
Interested in all things pillaged, and in Bob, and in skiffle.
Champion of Wiggle Wiggle on Pod Dylan.
Sean Ingle @seaningle.bsky.social Chief sports reporter, The Guardian.
Work here: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/seaningle
Mark Chilvers @markchilvers.bsky.social Hi, I'm a London based portrait photographer and educator. I also run a boxing club for autistic kids.
Ben Parker @benparker140.eurosky.social Online news and social media with Newsmast. Humanitarian policy and practice, news and tech. Previous: CEO at The New Humanitarian, CoS at the Black Sea Grain Initiative, UN in Syria, Somalia, Sudans. Article 109 and ODI. Fedi: @benparker@newsmast.social
Elisa Bray @elisabray.bsky.social Journalist. Writer. Mother of three. Music lover. Former music editor at The Independent- J Jonathan Reynolds @jonreynolds.bsky.social Software, photography, music, outdoor adventures, and travel
Robin Brown @robinbrown78.bsky.social Journo. Lecturer. Former tarmacademic. Monkey hanger in Liverpool. Will write for hard cash.
Chris Blattman @chrisblattman.bsky.social Economist, political scientist & writer @UChicago @HarrisPolicy. See my book Why We Fight: http://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636263
David Singleton @drsingleton.bsky.social Just a guy who likes to look through microscopes