John Rayment @johncrayment.bsky.social Actor, idler, eater of too many pies, drinker of too much Rioja.
High functioning mediocrity. Not straight 🏳️🌈
https://app.spotlight.com/3334-6729-4182
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett
Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
Comics: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/people/16810/david-barnett/comics
Agent: Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/david-m-barnett
Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social Film Journalist, Video Essayist/Editor, Festival Programmer
Sight & Sound, LWLies, BFI, NFTS, LFF, RSIFF & more
https://vimeo.com/user11355665
“Seemed that he was busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before." His dad, via Prince
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay.
Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).
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
Phil Hoad @phlode.bsky.social Reporter, features writer and critic based in Montpellier, France.
Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social now: co-founder @thenerve.news before: deputy editor, Observer New Review
thenerve.news
Jordan Hoffman @jhoffman.bsky.social How would you like to have your thick strawberry goo?
Kristin Hersh @kristinhersh.bsky.social musician, author
Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave
John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com Magic Hours - Malick
Visible Darkness - Glazer
Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World
Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts
Connery A Novel
https://linktr.ee/writersonfilm
Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social Still all the things I was over at the Other Place. And still angry.
Preoccupations: politics, education, disability and inclusive feminism.
🏳️⚧️ The only true feminism is intersectional 💜🤍💚
Cishet trans ally. Widow. Socialist.
She/her.
Charlie English @charlieenglish1.bsky.social Writer of narrative non-fiction. Formerly Guardian foreign editor. Out now in the UK: The CIA Book Club. Coming to the US July 1.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Waterstone's UK Children's Laureate
Ideas lead to idols. Only wonder leads to truth.
Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant podcast
https://islandofbrilliant.podbean.com/
Kate Muir @katemuir.bsky.social Writer and filmmaker. New book How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis. Women’s health campaigner and menopause expert http://Substack.com/@katemuir
Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social Aw, crap.
Fiona Sturges @fionasturges.bsky.social Arts & culture journalist, interviewer, spouter of opinions. Brightonian.
✍🏻: Guardian, FT Weekend, i newspaper, Independent.
"Rampant feminist snowflake" - Piers Morgan
"Well known lunatic" - Man on the internet
Rob Fearn @robfearn.bsky.social Assistant editor, The Guardian Saturday magazine. Gradually weaning myself off The Bad Place
Michael Cragg @mcragg.bsky.social Journalist. Author (Reach For The Stars). Tall person. My book about Kylie is out in September 2026 via Faber
Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social Guardian film critic. My new Audible Original drama MERCY starring Joanna Scanlan is out now: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GGTQ9ZBY?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp
Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social The Countdown with Keith Olbermann Podcast is back: Regular Flavor and, now, Tartar Control all-video on YouTube. Monday, Thursday AM https://link.chtbl.com/countdownwithkeitholbermann
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social Features journalist. Book: 'Something: Nine Women Who Made the Beatles' - May 2027.
https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org The NUJ chapel for the Guardian
Sam Jones @swajones.bsky.social Madrid correspondent for the Guardian. Concebollista.
John Carpenter @thehorrormaster.bsky.social Filmmaker and Composer
Theofficialjohncarpenter.com
@stormkingcomics.bsky.social
Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social commissioning editor & reporter @novaramedia.com
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
Alex Needham @alexneedham.bsky.social Arts editor of The Guardian.
F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social Author & journalist. Writing more books.
🎄DEATH ON HOLLY ISLAND Sept '26
🗡️THE EDIE YORK MYSTERIES
🏰 DREAMS OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things.
Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario.
Reach me via Producer@TheDavidFrumShow.com
DMs open to followers
Sam Wollaston @samwollaston.bsky.social Feature writer at the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/samwollaston
Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social Guardian staffer; author of Capital Celluloid daily blog guide to London repertory film scene (http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/?m=1); book, vinyl and DVD/Blu hoarder and proud of it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Rosa Bosch @rosabosch.bsky.social The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
-Albert Einstein
Lucy Popescu @lucyjpop.bsky.social Writer, editor, critic. Chair of the Authors Club & Best First Novel Award. Former Director, WiPC, English PEN. Books incl #ACountrytoCallHome #ACountryofRefuge #TheGoodTourist & #AnotherSky. https://www.lucypopescu.com/
Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social Film. TV. Archaeology. Pottery. Photography. Novels and short stories. Design. India. London. West Dorset 🌻 🍉
Linktree: https://t.co/YEqJmhdXY0
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
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social Assistant features editor for The Guardian. Writer on culture high and low, tech, film, TV, architecture, arts, race, environment, etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/steverose
Lizzie Francke @lizziefrancke.bsky.social Film Executive for many years now Head of Directing Fiction at the National Film and TV School, UK. Despite the very stormy clouds, glad to be here. ‘It's a beautiful new day? Hey’ . Let’s make waves.
Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social Author, critic, historian | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Curse of Queen Kelly | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social Filmmaker/writer. The Story of Film/Dear Orson Welles/A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Women Make Film/I am Belfast/My Name is Alfred Hitchcock/The Story of Looking/Atomic/Stockholm My Love/Life May Be/
Best info about me: https://markcousins.cargo.site/
Lillian Crawford @lillcrawf.co.uk Writer and curator • Stims Collective • PhD on Screen Two • Listen to Lillian • The Mind of the Doctor: Across the Neurodiverse Universe of Doctor Who • www.lillcrawf.co.uk • listentolillian.substack.com • lilliancrawford13s@gmail.com
Robbie Collin @robbiecollin.bsky.social Telegraph (UK) film critic and amateur menswear enjoyer
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social Freelance journalist with a focus on film. Former Senior Writer @thetimes.com Host of the writing podcast Write-Off. Agent: Laura Macdougall at UA, Insta @francescasteelewrites Recovered from #longcovid
Caz Roberts @cazroberts.bsky.social Creative Director of Grazia
Ellen E Jones @ellenejones.bsky.social Journalist and broadcaster (Guardian, Observer, Empire, Esquire, Elle etc) Author of 'SCREEN DEEP: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world'(Faber, 2024, linktr.ee/Screen_Deep); Co-host of SCREENSHOT on BBC Radio 4 and wherever you get your pods
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Nick James @filmnickjames.bsky.social Writer, former Editor of Sight and Sound magazine. A rock singer last century. A choir member now.
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.
David Jenkins @daveyjenkins.bsky.social LWLies editor. david at tcolondon dot com
JOHN NIVEN @nivenj1.bsky.social 'John Niven is a fucking idiot. Who needs him?'
Michael Winner, RIP.
Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.
Mat Osman @matosman.bsky.social Suede bassist. Author - The Ghost Theatre out now via Bloomsbury. Producer/composer. Didz at Quietus for musical stuff, Victoria Hobbs at AM Heath for books
Sarah Crown @sarahcrown.bsky.social Director of Communication at Arts Council England (all views my own). Books; politics; journalism; walks; trees. Won’t balk at the occasional cat
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social Want to know the 411 & keep up with all the hot gossip? Look no further. ATP/WTA news, history & memes.
234K+ on X.
Podcast:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2363472
Free Weekly Newsletter:
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright.
Author of:
Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay (Little Toller)
Deliria (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin (Little Toller)
Latchkey (Sacred Parasite)
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social Drugs and organised crime journalist. Orwell Prize winner. Author, Narcomania. Former Global Drugs Editor, Vice. maxdaly.com
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.
Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
👤: sethabramson.net/bio
⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com
🕹: retrostack.substack.com
🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose, 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 2026)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027 tbc)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
Ashley Clark @ashcclark.bsky.social Don't look at the carpet, I drew something awful on it
https://linktr.ee/_Ash_Clark
Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com Books like The English Monster. Podcasts at The Curiously Specific Book Club
🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social Film correspondent and general blowhard for The Irish Times. Bias so-called 'critic'. You're the tray of nice things I upset yesterday. https://www.irishtimes.com/author/donald-clarke/
Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
Agnes C. Poirier @agnescpoirier.bsky.social Journalist, writer & broadcaster.
📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury)
📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld)
✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social Guardian interviewer/features writer, with a thing for prison and miscarriages of justice (well not a thing for them as such, a thing for writing about them). Proud Mancunian/Salfordian. City fan of some vintage
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
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