Martin McDonald @martymcd.bsky.social UK & US Politics and other stuff from the kitchen table, one tweet at a time.
Some say 'a totally undiscovered twitter treasure' apparently. Also tax. And law
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online writer and coffee professional, Bon Appétit, Serious Eats, Bon Appetit, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Vulture, HAD, Polygon, and other places.
I also have a newsletter: https://jesseraub.online
Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social i'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at espace, since i'm positive we won't have a decent table http://rachaelmeager.com http://rottenandgood.substack.com
Norm @chingerhook.bsky.social "I understood what he meant when he said I sucked." -- Todd Snider
formerly ogskydog
suckage https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:it6vk4nyt7nu7yo54h7ivezf/feed/aaahvtsdprjuw
top suck https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:it6vk4nyt7nu7yo54h7ivezf/feed/top-skeets
Thanks For Sharing, Jerk @thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social Omelette City
avi by Max Cannon
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0821734/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social strange highness
https://ko-fi.com/gefthetokingmongoose
https://boxd.it/7zqId
jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social film & culture & TV critic • associate programmer @mixnyc.bsky.social • repped by marya spence (janklow & nesbit)
• https://linktr.ee/jsearles
Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social editor/writer
in film, vulture, etc
mostly on ig
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social History, politics, animal welfare and vegetarianism. Liverpool FC and the European Union.
Author of eight books on radical Britain 1600-1900
Little Bowden, Market Harborough.
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Andrew R @excelpope.net Shortly to be replaced by Microsoft Co-pilot
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social Associate Prof & Head of History @YSJ. Early Soviet history and Stalinism. The Red Army and the Great Terror (2015); The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy (2023). Working on POWs and the Soviet Red Cross. Occasional drummer https://shorturl.at/LRaWz
Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social Cartoonist/Illustrator
My book, Drawn to the Chaos, is out this November and available to pre-order now: https://linktr.ee/drawntothechaos
Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles.
"I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social Sex blogger, audio porn producer, collection of atoms and stories.
Love me or leave me alone.
https://www.girlonthenet.com
huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social “guards, seize he/him!”
managing editor @sojo.net.
nyc
Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social Senior Editor, Technology @ NBC News
Signal: beng.38
https://linktr.ee/bengoggin
benjamin.goggin@nbcuni.com bgoggin@protonmail.com
Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social ‘The view from the column is ever distant’
Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social Climate and sustainability writing and communications; duck monitor.
CNBC @cnbc.com First in business worldwide. 💰
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
• Goodfeeds @goodfeeds.co
• Sky․app @getsky.app
thanked by darth july 20, 2023
📍Austin, TX
Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social Interested in sustainable transport, urban planning and the state of the world. Working in international development cooperation.
Sarah Perez @sarahp.bsky.social TechCrunch reporter and editor. Used to be @sarahintampa / @sarahperezTC on Twitter. Tips? Signal @sarahperez.01 / sarahp@techcrunch.com.
David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social Tech reporter at NBC News. Based in San Francisco. I write a lot about Elon Musk. Read my latest work here: https://www.nbcnews.com/author/david-ingram-ncpn890161
On Signal: davidingram.77
Andy Burnham Accepter @jorisbinned.bsky.social Always wanting the barman to say "great to see you we don't like factional politics in here"
I am for us, we are for them, you are for me
And not just a slicker version of Sir Keir Starmer
#KeepStreamingConfessionsII
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social Yorkshire based. Interested in politics. Labour member but not a cultist.
molly taft @mollytaft.com disaster dyke on the apocalypse beat @wired.com . very tall with a very short dog. they/them. molly_taft@wired.com, signal: @mollytaft.99. mollytaft.com
Tyron @tyron.bsky.social Raise taxes, repair the country. Inspired by joy, Marcel Duchamp, Kelis, Mata Hari, and whatever sticks the landing on the bit.
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
@harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social Writer.
Guardian. The Quietus. Vice. Record Collector.
Author of Monolithic Undertow.
Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com The latest news and more from Rolling Stone magazine and http://RollingStone.com. Got a tip? Share it here: http://rol.st/tips
Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social Climate journalist at Bloomberg and chronicler of weird suburbs. Opinions mine and not my bosses’ 
Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. He/him. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine.
"The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders.
Signal: eroston.87
Bloomberg Green
Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*) 
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
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇
#1 Congestion pricing stan
#1 RFK Jr. hater
anti-slopulist
Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social Former political researcher and professional elections nerd specialising in electoral and party systems. Current day market research analyst for museums, heritage, the arts and charities around the world. UK's number one Romania-phile. Still a nerd. He/him
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
Donna Ferguson @donnalferguson.bsky.social Multiple award-winning freelance journalist, with over 950 bylines in The Guardian. Head of the Freelance Chapter of Women in Journalism, which campaigns for equality and diversity in journalism.
National Institute of Economic and Social Research @niesrorg.bsky.social Founded in 1938, NIESR is Britain’s longest established independent research institute focusing on macroeconomics and social policy. 
Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social Law prof at U Colorado, business and securities. Blogging at https://www.businesslawprofessors.com/
Papers at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2365170
"Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.”
Eleanor Doughty @brushingboots.bsky.social Writer on the aristocracy, big houses, old money; author of HEIRS AND GRACES, a history of the modern aristocracy, which is out now! Views my own, yours for £. edoughty92@gmail.com
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453305/heirs-and-graces-by-doughty-eleanor/
PastRewind @past-rewind.bsky.social History posts by Mark Amies. London manufacturing history contributor on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show, author of two books.
https://wordsbymarkamies.com/
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social Charlemagne columnist & Brussels bureau chief, The Economist.
Past stints in Paris, Mumbai, London. Français. Personal feed.
Bio 👇. https://medium.com/@spignal/stanley-pignal-bio-2acd9b705ceb
Charlemagne@economist.com
Richard Vaughan @richardvaughan.bsky.social Director, Media at Public First/Stonehaven. Generally tired.
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
Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book “Good Game, No Rematch” is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robertbohan.etsy.com
Chris Williamson @chris-williamson.bsky.social Posting from a personal capacity.
Polly Smythe @pollysmythe.bsky.social Reporter @londoncentric.media | stories and tips to polly@londoncentric.media | signal: pollysmythe.92
Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social Comics, music, books, film, photos, paintings & cartoons! Humanism & ASD too. A Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure. Hurrah!
Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Monocle, host of Monocle Radio's The Foreign Desk and The Daily. Author of four scandalously under-rated books.
Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com Weekend News Editor, the Financial Times @financialtimes.com.
I did write the headline.
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, Bloomberg, Salt Lake, Columbia J School.
bit.ly/bgcjr
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social I teach politics at a university in the UK. I'm interested in electoral systems, public opinion, and the politics of non-majoritarian institutions like courts and regulators.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8932-9405
Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
STP Guy @stpguy3.bsky.social Reviewing the UK's Sticky Toffee Puddings
70k on Instagram (with full review backlog)
90k on Tiktok
Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social Former internet celebrity. Former journalist. Current human author and @apiln.bsky.social Supreme Leader. Ally. fizzandnonsense.bsky.social completes me.
Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social Our 'A Victorian Revival match-funding campaign' aims to save two historic churches in Lincolnshire and Carmarthenshire. These churches are at risk of being lost forever
Support our match-funding now, and every £ given will be matched by our generous donor
Rebekah Young @rebekahwyoung.bsky.social I read the news today, oh boy
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Stefan Judis @stefanjudis.com Freelance dev sending Frontend news to 6k people over at webweekly.email. Sharing lots of tips'n'tricks on the way.
Google Dev Expert, former Microsoft MVP and Playwright Ambassador
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
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
Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science at WashU • NASA Planetary Data System Geosciences Node Director • Explorers Club EC50 • eeps.washu.edu/people/paul-byrne • he/him
Philip Taylor @philipjtaylor.bsky.social Commercial and Agricultural Property Solicitor. Companion of John Ruskin's Guild of St George.
Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social Britain editor, New Statesman. Lead host, New Statesman Podcast (Publisher Podcast Award winner '21-24) & co-host Westminster Reimagined with Armando Iannucci.
Laura Kayali @laukaya.bsky.social Senior defense correspondent at POLITICO Europe in Paris. lkayali@politico.eu
The British Broadcasting Century podcast @bbcentury.bsky.social Informing, educating + entertaining re British broadcasting's origin story: the first firsts of radio, early BBC, interwar bits & pieces + occasional pictures of Reith looking grumpy.
By paulkerensa.bsky.social
Podcast/tour/book: paulkerensa.com/oldradio
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social Author, Writer etc
Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social contributing editor at Wired // contributing writer at NYT opinion // making trouble at ■■■■■■■■ // https://signal.me/#eu/3aA6cspNTXUEOtEYwaK6KOFIw8nf-7G1jQBd3MRqrDeUvZxfzp5Py61cKq4GbcNg
Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com