Unofficial Andy @unofficialandy.bsky.social This is a completely unofficial Bluesky account that collates links to Andy Burnham's Instagram and TikTok accounts. It's maintained by @bowsy.co.uk (David Durant).
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
The Future Governance Forum (FGF) @futuregovforum.bsky.social Transforming the state to renew the nation.
To stay updated, join our mailing list: https://futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/contact/
Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social Gentleman Sleuth
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).
Mainstream @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social The home for Labour’s radical realists - united by values, driven by change.
Join us to unlock the transformative potential of the Labour Party.
http://mainstreamlabour.org/
Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social Guardian senior political correspondent. New book, Stress tested, out now: https://tinyurl.com/mhn82a7m
Email: peter.walker@theguardian.com Secure email if needed: peter.walker.guardian@protonmail.com
FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com A markets and finance blog that's outside the FT paywall. All we ask is that you register to read: https://www.ft.com/content/b6cdf8d1-7435-460b-9a68-df456a143ce5
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: yimbypod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
Real art...real artists...No AI
Images © to respective owners
Hannah Al-Othman @hannahalothman.bsky.social Journalist @guardian. Northern Powerhouse, running bore 🏃🏽♀️, MUFC 👹. Send news: hannah.al-othman@theguardian.com. DM for WhatsApp/Signal
Rachel Wearmouth @rewearmouth.bsky.social Journalist. Geordie.
Your phone isn’t the real world.
Hannah Jane Parkinson @ladyhaja.bsky.social ✍🏻 Journalist: The Guardian, Observer, elsewhere
📖 Buy: The Joy of Small Things amzn.to/3EBFgqz
🗣️Posting: politics, arts, mental health, media, ⚽️, 🏳️🌈
📧 Your emails can find me well at: hannah.jane.parkinson@theguardian.com
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social • political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6
📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum.
heather.stewart@theguardian.com
Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social Whitehall Editor for the Observer & chief investigative reporter for BBC R4's The Naked Week. Politics, investigations and taramasalata
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
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.
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
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
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
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.
Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social Co host @thenewsagents .
Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social ‘The view from the column is ever distant’
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III.
https://whatsalanwatching.com
Claire Ainsley @claire-ainsley.bsky.social Director PPI project on Centre-left Renewal; author ‘The New Working Class’; Exec Director of Policy for Labour and Keir Starmer 2020-22
The Good Growth Foundation @goodgrowthfdn.bsky.social The Good Growth Foundation is a new non-profit that campaigns for a fairer economy, so growth can work for good.
https://www.goodgrowthfoundation.co.uk
https://x.com/GoodGrowthFdn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-good-growth-foundation
Theo Bertram @theobertram.bsky.social Director of the Social Market Foundation
Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social Author of The Sunday Times' book of the week How To Kill A Language, all about language loss and linguicide. I have won and lost a bunch of journalism awards too but more importantly I won Xmas University Challenge twice and Rosalía follows me on TikTok
Grace Dent @gracedent.bsky.social * BBC Masterchef UK 🇬🇧
*Comfort Eating- Ep 1 Russell T Davies
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/comfort-eating-with-grace-dent/id1571446706?i=1000525534334
* Restaurant Critic for The Guardian 🇬🇧
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/gracedent
Ben Walker @bwalker.uk Co-Founder of @britainelects.com | walker@britainelects.com
Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.com Author of USELESS ETYMOLOGY, WORDS FROM HELL, ONCE UPON A WORD, INTO THE WORDS. Podcaster, Words Unravelled. Adjunct prof at Emerson and UFL. Speaker, content director, social pro, ad world wordsmith. https://linktr.ee/JessZafarris- B Helen @brightybot.bsky.social
Rob Linham @radinden.bsky.social Interested in travel, puzzles, cricket, music and Brighton, amongst other things. Used to be a diplomat, now posting purely personally. He/him.
Kate @chiasmata.bsky.social Sometimes I make marmalade.
remotegoat @remote-goat.bsky.social 
DrLiseKit @lisekit.bsky.social You have to stop the world just to stop the feeling
As sometimes seen in https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lise-smith
Seamus McCauley @seamusmccauley.bsky.social Serial attempted parliamentarian. Bibulous bibliophile. Proud father to Russell and Adam.
Lizzie Waterhouse @lizzieacquacasa.bsky.social 
@paultcam.bsky.social @paultcam.bsky.social 
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
Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social Researcher, UCalgary
PhD, Political Science
Dr. Cronk, Historian of Complaints. I've written a book, The Press Gallery (release TBD).
Headline of the Year! Lots going on.
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social CEO UK Opera Association.
Cellist. Various boards.
Labour Member, House of Lords.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thangamdebbonaire
Miatta Fahnbulleh @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Peckham
Minister for Devolution, Faith & Communities
Miatta.fahnbulleh.mp@parliament.uk
Lucy Bailey @labailey.bsky.social Producer on BBC World Service radio's Newshour. Background / interest in science, politics & law esp. international / human rights. NUJ (union) rep. Jazz / garden / nature / food enthusiast now living in Tunbridge Wells. lucy.bailey@bbc.co.uk
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
Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social BBC News in Westminster
Tom Symonds @tomsymonds.bsky.social BBC Political and News Correspondent. Particular interests in crime, justice, policing. TV, Radio and Web. tom.symonds@bbc.co.uk
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
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
Darien Graham-Smith @dariengs.bsky.social Comme ci, comme ça.
ainsley @ainsleybee.bsky.social enthusiastic supporter of awesome folks. she/her.
here to hang out with my friends. not here to debate.
Kat Knight @katkni.bsky.social Comms/brand/strategy. Fast walker. Pro-woke. She/her.
Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6
Tim Shipman @shippersunbound.bsky.social Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)
Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social Proud Milton Keynesian and Labour MP for MK North. Can't spell, views my own.
Cam Vargas @camvargas.bsky.social Work: @arguablymag.bsky.social 🇵🇪🇬🇧 | COYI ⚒️
Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social Here we go again
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/
Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com New book out now! A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE END OF THE F*CKING WORLD – https://linktr.ee/endofthefckingworld Previous books: Humans; Truth; Conspiracy. Formerly BuzzFeed & Full Fact.
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
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch + Remember Me? podcast. My book "OUT NOW" is out in September. Dyslexic / Autistic.
Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social CEO of the Institute for Government
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
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
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
Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social Emmy-award-winning journalist
https://lukemcgee.substack.com/
luke@luke-mcgee.com
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/- L laniball @laniball.bsky.social Here I am now, entertain me. If you would be so kind.
Kate Levick @levick.bsky.social East Londoner, @E3G Sustainable Finance, generally curious about things/people.
Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com I write stuff -- most recently Sherlock Holmes: The Monster of the Mere. Posting about writing, TV, SF, Doctor Who, politics, language, crosswords, things I like, things I'm interested in, things. He/him.
.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com Just this guy, you know?- V Dan Smith @vigornian.bsky.social Among other things, Lawyer & Board Gamer
Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social I help authors/indie presses publish non-fiction books. Also editor of various magazines, including northernearth.co.uk (folklore, archaeology, psychogeography, landscape). Writer, walker, ambulomancer, neoantiquarian.
andrewchapman.info