Alastair Benn
Deputy Editor @engelsbergideas.bsky.social
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@georginaq.bsky.social
Newsletters at the Financial Times, and preserving Vietnamese refugee stories at Hackney Archives/An Việt Archives.
@katemaltby.bsky.social
weekly at the i newspaper (news column) monthly at Prospect & at The Stage (on theatre) often at FT & Observer (books, culture) also Deputy Chair, Index on Censorship; Co-Chair, Critics' Circle (Drama); Senior Research Associate, Jesus College, Cambridge
@zoeguttenplan.bsky.social
Writer, editor, book designer | Literary Review zoeguttenplan.com
@duncanweldon.bsky.social
Economics writer. Author. Expect history, finance, economics and other stuff. Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through. Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out in June 2025.
@megalley.bsky.social
Historian and editor for history and heritage at transcript academic publishing (Bielefeld, GER). PhD in Soviet history from The University of Sheffield. Berliner. Likes people, music, cats, food & going outside. she/her
@jnilssonwright.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Japanese Politics & IR, Cambridge; Head, Japan and Koreas Programme, @CamGeopolitics , University of Cambridge
@mark-p-barry.com
Followed U.S.-DPRK relations for 35 yrs. Met Kim Il Sung in 1994; my NGO met Kim Jong Il in 2005. Assoc. Ed. Emer., Int'l J. on World Peace. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, IR; M.A., Georgetown U., Nat. Sec. St. 🇰🇷🇰🇵🇺🇸 📩 m.barry@hji.edu 🌐 mark-p-barry.com
@dmk1793.bsky.social
Historian, think tank researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
@tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social
Author, Keeping Their Marbles (OUP)| presenter, The History of Secrecy (Radio 4) | Trustee, British Museum. Coming in May: Strangers & Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life (Picador). https://tiffanyjenkinsinfo.com/
@jackfdickens.bsky.social
Historian, journalist and cricket tragic 🏏 Commissioning Editor @engelsbergideas.bsky.social | Please send pitches to: jack@engelsbergideas.com
@sarahbaxterstm.bsky.social
Director, Marie Colvin Center, Stony Brook University. Columnist, the Standard and the i paper, ex-deputy ed The Sunday Times, IPSO member
@jamesamcloughlin.bsky.social
Film and fiction writing. ✍️ in New Critique, Engelsberg Ideas, DMovies, Penumbra Magazine, Valley Press, 10:10 Press, and more. https://thelinesman.substack.com
@ronanmainprize.bsky.social
Ax:son Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication Researching intelligence, statecraft, and strategy • Writing a book on Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Global Cold War • University of Warwick PhD
@charlottekl.bsky.social
Maritime researcher & ship enthusiast. Board & advisory roles in the RoRo shipping sector. Associate Fellow at the RNSSC & Council on Geostrategy. Views are my own.
@matthefler.bsky.social
Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
@apolyakova.bsky.social
President & CEO @cepa.org; Prof Johns Hopkins SAIS; former Brookings Institution; Berkeley PhD, Russia, Europe, democracy, tech policy. Views my own. Media requests: press@cepa.org
@annaporker.bsky.social
Past & Present Fellow, Institute of Historical Research. Writing about central Europe, families, psychology and art + objects in the TLS, Granta, Guardian etc.
@angusbrown.bsky.social
Assistant Prof/Harper-Schmidt Fellow @UChicago | Newsletter Editor at Tocqueville 21
@aaronbateman.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. of History & Intl Affairs at George Washington U. | Book#1 : Weapons in Space: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547369/weapons-in-s | Now writing a book on the politics/security of global information networks
@spoem.bsky.social
* #Chinese #Literature: A Very Short Introduction * (Oxford) & *The Heart of Time* (Harvard) Translator & Interpreter: En/Fr/繁中/简中/Ru 雙語 @SabinaKnight.bsky.social Care ethicist @FairbankCenter #PIPfellow @NCUSCR.bsky.social Prof Emerita WLT @SmithCollege
@jacobware.bsky.social
Research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement. https://www.amazon.com/God-Guns-Sedition-Far-Right-Terrorism/dp/0231
@msg77.bsky.social
Professor and Director of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
@achemeche.bsky.social
Writer, Opera Nerd and Drag King (They/Them) Bylines: Jezebel, Lithub, Michigan Quarterly Review, Tribune, Harper’s Bazaar, Harvard Review, them., BOMB, The Forward Living btw NYC and Edinburgh Trinity Dublin, Yale & Columbia Alum AmandaChemeche.com
@carlritter.bsky.social
Deputy Director, Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication, Stockholm School of Economics
@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
@tobiasjones.bsky.social
Italy-based journalist & award-winnning writer: Ultra, The Po, Blood on the Altar, A Place of Refuge, The Dark Heart of Italy, Utopian Dreams etc. Community-co-builder, bad carpenter, good listener, OK teacher... NSNO
@philtinline.bsky.social
Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times' Politics Book of 2022) GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("eye-popping" - Daily Telegraph) https://tinyurl.com/Ghosts-Iron-Mountain Last on Radio 4: Ronald vs Donald https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00274r
@wquinn.bsky.social
@daisydunn.bsky.social
Author and Classicist. Catullus' Bedspread; In the Shadow of Vesuvius; Homer; Of Gods and Men; Not Far From Brideshead; and most recently The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
@angusreilly.bsky.social
Writing a book about Henry Kissinger in World War II and a biography of David Owen.
@suzanneraine.bsky.social
Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge; Visiting Professor KCL; Trustee of IWM, RUSI and IBCC Lincolnshire. Before that the FCO.
@warinthefuture.bsky.social
Strategist, Leader & Author | Retd Army Major General | Senior Fellow in Military Studies @LowyInstitute | @CSIS | Modern & Future war studies | Futura Doctrina substack | #BannedInRussia
@murielzagha.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster; film specialist – BBC, TLS, ENGELSBERG IDEAS, APOLLO, SPECTATOR and others; French Londoner Garlic&Pearls podcast @garlicandpearls.bsky.social Instagram @murielzaghawriter http://muckrack.com/muriel-zagha-3
@jamesbarr.bsky.social
I write history. Last book: LORDS OF THE DESERT; before that: A LINE IN THE SAND. Next book: THE ARENA. More at/contact me via https://www.historythatmatters.org Signal - jamesbarr.62 Currently reading: Ed Conway / Material World
@mathewlyons.bsky.social
Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
@irehman.bsky.social
Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Applied history, grand strategy and Asian security.
@jamiegaskarth.bsky.social
Prof of Foreign Policy and IR, OU. Writes on British defence, intel and foreign policy. Assoc Ed. International Affairs. Views my own.
@kschake.bsky.social
Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of Safe Passage, contributing writer at The Atlantic. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
@lordrickettsp.bsky.social
Former diplomat, Chair Lords European Affairs Cttee, Vice-Chair RUSI, Hon Pres Normandy Memorial Trust. Author of Hard Choices. Pop up on media a bit. Views all my own!
@jcbretan.bsky.social
PhD at University of Cambridge on modernism, East-Central Europe & political geography. Research assistant for the Baltic Geopolitics Programme, Centre for Geopolitics. Words in The TLS, The Public Domain Review, Engelsberg Ideas, The Arts Desk & more.
@ljukic.bsky.social
Reading and writing https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/central-europe/
@elisabethbraw.bsky.social
Atlantic Council, Foreign Policy, Politico Europe. Author of The Defender's Dilemma (2022), Goodbye Globalization (2024) and Undersea War (2026). Geopolitics & globalisation/greyzone aggression/total defence/societal resilience. Own views
@mgemancipation.bsky.social
Host, FRDH podcast www.goldfarbpod.com RU listening? MichaelGoldfarb.substack.com R U reading? Been doing this forever: BBC, NPR, NYTimes, WashPo, Guardian etc https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JE5Q7MEFTFRSQ
@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social
I write about kings and prophets. In but not from Vancouver, BC