Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social In Bristol. Beer blogging in the UK since 2007. Also wrote some books about beer and pubs. Header image shows a detail from the cover of one. Won't repost if you don't use alt text. Find us at boakandbailey.com
Mike Parker @mikeparker.bsky.social Writer in the damp Welsh hills.
Books include All the Wide Border, Map Addict, On the Red Hill, The Wild Rover, Neighbours from Hell?
"No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker" - Ayesha Hazarika, Times Radio
Monty Lit Fest @montylitfest.bsky.social Montgomeryshire Literary Festival. 12-24 June 2026 in historic town of Montgomery. Celebrating writing from Wales, the Borders and beyond (no self-publishing). With music, art and cake #FriendlyFestival
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 💫
James Spackman @jamesspackman73.bsky.social Literary agent, pitching coach, cyclist, lino printer https://linktr.ee/JamesSpackman
Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social millmedia.bsky.social editor/founder. Interested in #localjournalism and low-stakes media drama.
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
Howell Harris @trefeca.bsky.social Retired (US, business & technology) historian. Twitter escapee. Hope this doesn't go the same way. Welsh & European. Durham resident. Gardener & cyclist.
Barnabas Calder @barnabascalder.bsky.social Historian of #architecture and #energy, at University of Liverpool School of Architecture. Author of Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican, 2021), and Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism (William Heinemann, 2016).
𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social 
Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social Typist.
Ruth Husko @dankackroyd.bsky.social If you like tweets you’re in for a treat 🤫
https://linktr.ee/Ruth_Husko
Henry Jeffreys @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social Booze enthusiast
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social Michael Jackson Beer Writer of the Year (2023 and 2025). Beer book of the year Desi Pubs (2023). Journalist and Substacker: https://davidjesudason.substack.com
McNally Editions @mcnallyeditions.com A publishing line devoted to elevating unduly overlooked books and authors, from McNally Jackson Books.
mcnallyeditions.com
Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant, mainly on beer, pubs, food, drink, social history.
http://petebrown.net
http://patreon.com/petebrownbeer
Agent Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates.
Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social Fat middle aged bisexual, but good 🩷💜💙
Now get your fucking ass up and bring me back a wee surprise from the shop.
She/Her
⚽️🔴⚪️🏳️🌈ENM
Jonny Blackburn @echoblackburn.bsky.social Investigations and campaigns reporter for the Liverpool Echo.
Email: jon.blackburn@liverpoolecho.co.uk
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/
Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social 📚Don’t Make Me Laugh out now.
Shortlisted for CWIP Prize 2025 & Chortle Awards 2026.
juliaraeside.com
🗞️ 📻 iPaper, Times, Guardian, BBC radio.
Presents @boxdelightspod.bsky.social
Agent: @charlotteatyeo.bsky.social
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
Helen Zaltzman @helenzaltzman.bsky.social Podcaster from The Allusionist, Answer Me This and Veronica Mars Investigations. Pronouns she/they (TBH I think 'they' should be the default and we opt in to gendered pronouns/gender). linktr.ee/helenzaltzman
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Emma @scousepie.bsky.social 
@bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social Fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and everything in between: https://linktr.ee/BoilerHouse
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 🍉
Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits. I also waste my time (and maybe yours!) with @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social
https://freakytrigger.co.uk
David Bryant @23daves.bsky.social "I don't mean half the things I say/ So just ignore the half that you don't like"
All views expressed are personal, not those of my employer.
Writer of "Everybody's Number 1 to Someone", about NME Indie Chart toppers: https://indienumber1s.blogspot.com
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/
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social Read about each song that topped the charts in Ireland at irishnumberones.com
Every Friday: the new Irish charts and 'Mr Brightside'-Watch!
Written & posted by @aidancurran17.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social Independent American publisher devoted to the translation of overlooked gems and literary oddities in small, affordable, yet elegant paperback editions.
wakefieldpress.com
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
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social London depicted by artists past and present.
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Samuel Johnson.
Curated by @jamadden.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/paintingsoflondon
Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social Angry People in Local Newspapers - Weird news - Bizarre headlines - Wild animals and ghosts which are actually cats - Bonkers billboards. Regret to report that people are still taking this account seriously. Avatar image by @tpneenan.bsky.social.
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
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Literary Agency.
Lady Sinks the Booze @doubleshiny.bsky.social Craft beer tour guide and blogger, run Runcorn Beer Fest
Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social I'm the programme lead for the UK energy team at E3G and an advisory board member for the Autonomy Institute. Personal account - random thoughts with a quarterly post about energy policy.
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
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/
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Eric Idle @ericidle.bsky.social Check out the amazing handcrafed gifts made by my daughter at www.idlehandmade.com
You know you want a Holy Grail bag, or that guitar bag, owned only by me and Micky Dolenz. Updates coming shortly...
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social Currently - Luke Haines and Peter Buck. Black Box Recorder. Minus 5 (when called into service) Swell Maps (occasionally)
Formerley - The Auteurs,
Writes a bit, paints a bit. Strums guitar.
Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social Journalist, including property for the FT. Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. heawood.substack.com
BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social Life's a big banana sandwich
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2188080
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social He must not be replaced by an otter.
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/
Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Business, feminism, reproductive rights and lots besides. As seen in: Observer, BBC, Prospect, New Statesman, The Persistent.
Substack: https://bigfatnegative.substack.com/
📍 Coastal Kent
Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social The Viz one
AKA Evie
Council worker and writer
Both jobs death related
Ashes to Admin and Get Ahead of Being Dead out now
Locate International ambassador
https://linktr.ee/eviekingwrites
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
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Lydia @itsthatlydia.bsky.social @lydiajo over there. Banana for scale.
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
Claire Pitt @crpitt.bsky.social Director at a not for profit art studios - hiking/heritage/art/nature are my things
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
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/
Katie Westwood @katiewestwood.bsky.social Journalist | Ex @liverpoolecho.co.uk, @brusselstimes.com
Lisa Ashurst @lisaashurst.bsky.social Music fanatic. MCFC supporting Mancunian. Property PR and marketing. Proud trustee of Band on the Wall
Joseph Timan @josephtiman.bsky.social Media at Transport for Greater Manchester 🐝
Chris Marritt @chrismarritt.bsky.social Crisis comms consultant and media trainer for Citypress.
My three castles are family, running and Liverpool FC.
Martin Little @martinlittle577.bsky.social Dons, rum, ornithology and grammar. Proud dad of two. SEO, marketing, social, online safety and direct messaging for Reach PLC
Todd Fitzgerald @tfitzgeraldmen.bsky.social Executive editor, Manchester Evening News
@manchestereveningnews.co.uk / https://www.gofundme.com/f/todds-chester-marathon-fundraising-page-for-chloe
Scottish Business Insider @scotbizinsider.bsky.social Home of all the latest Scottish business news, analysis and comment. Contact editor@insider.co.uk with any tips or feedback.
Graeme Brown @graeme-b.bsky.social Dad, editor, Birmingham Mail and BirminghamLive, #wba and #YouBears fan, worried about the world, passionate about the West Midlands
Jason Roberts @snapperjay.bsky.social Manchester Evening News photographer
Press photographer for over 36 years
Pete Gavan @petegavan.bsky.social Editor at BristolLive, SomersetLive & GloucestershireLive, cyclist, runner, baker, husband, dad
@lornahughes.bsky.social @lornahughes.bsky.social 
Alex Turner @alexturner.uk Joint MD of TheBusinessDesk.com; Labour councillor in Hebden Royd; Chekhov impersonator
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social Journalist (ex The Register, The Next Web, HowToGeek). Writer. Software developer. Dog owner (x3). Scouser.
I have a newsletter about how tech companies are ruining our lives. https://whatwelost.substack.com/
GemmaSherlock @gemmasherlock.bsky.social Journalist at BBC News North West | Former editor and reporter for Daily Mirror and Reach Plc | Mental health advocate | Dachshund owner and Swiftie | Views my own.
Connor O'Neill @connoron95.bsky.social Sport Central Content Editor, Reach (Regionals).
Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social The Centre for European Reform (CER) is an award winning think-tank, devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the EU.
London, Brussels, Berlin
Website: www.cer.eu
Podcast: soundcloud.com/cer_london/ Spotify: https://buff.ly/7aKvyUs
Orange Monkey @orangemonkey.bsky.social Horror films, records, cats, witchy things. 
Tony McDonough @tonymc112.bsky.social Journalist, amateur (very) photographer, movie nerd, Liverpool FC fan. Thought I was part of the progressive politics club but I think my membership has been revoked. Liverpool born, now living in Wirral. Scan my scribblings at lbndaily.co.uk
ChronSallie @chronsallie.bsky.social Journalist & Marketer from Chester. Former Social Media Editor @Reachpress 📰 @CheshireLive @northwaleslive all views my own 💬
Mark McNulty @markmcnulty.bsky.social North Wales based photographer. Originally from Liverpool. Portrait and documentary. Music, culture and community.
James Waters @jameswaters.bsky.social You’ll find me at Reach: the publishers of @DailyMirror, @Daily_Express @DailyStar @ok_magazine Plus play music on @SFMradio: Personal account etc etc
Dylan Hayward @dylanhayward.bsky.social Leicestershire Live Reporter | Award winning journalist | Bylines: @BBCWorld, @DailyMirror, @birmingham_live, @forcesnews.com, @birminghamworld.bsky.social, @Caters_News.
Latest News: https://t.co/Z73DIy5z2O
Joanna Cummings @joannafcummings.bsky.social Editor, writer, co-founder of The Grub Street Journal. Short, auburn, Lancastrian. Likes Riesling and stupid nicknames.
Joe Cawthorn @joecawthorn.bsky.social 
Blog Preston @blogpreston.co.uk News, views, culture and information about Preston, Lancashire. We are a Community Interest Company.
Ed Walker @edwalker86.bsky.social Journalist. Editor. Audience development & editorial consultant. Director of Alma. Founder & editor of @blogpreston
Beth Ashton @bethashton.bsky.social Chief Growth Officer at Bright Sites, working on journalism products that ethically integrate AI into newsrooms. I like sighthounds, pop punk and triathlons.
Journo Resources @journoresources.org.uk Lifting the lid on journalism's secrets since 2016 🕵️♀️ Giving you the real deal on pay, freelancing, jobs and insider tips. Everything's free, all opps paid.
Francois Nel @francoisnel.bsky.social 
Edson Caldas @edsoncaldas.bsky.social News Editor at LinkedIn • Formerly Reuters & Twitter • Born in Sao Paulo, based in London
Paddy Edrich @paddyedrich.bsky.social Crime reporter | Liverpool Echo | patrick.edrich@reachplc.com | https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/authors/patrick-edrich/