Anna Disley
Executive Director, Programme and Impact at New Writing North. Chair of Glow, Newcastle
@katie0martin.ft.com
FT, E17, Unhedged podcast, gardening, making bread, climbing, cycling, 6 Music Mum. I don't deserve my bad Uber rating and I never give investment advice - if it looks like I am, it's a scam.
@gideonrachman.bsky.social
FT columnist. Also have podcast. Author of three and a half books. Four kids. Two cats. One wife. Numerous friends. Fulham fan.
@quinnslobodian.com
Historian of bad ideas. Out now: HAYEK'S BASTARDS: https://bookshop.org/p/books/hayek-s-bastards-race-gold-iq-and-the-capitalism-of-the-far-right-quinn-slobodian/21814849?ean=9781890951917 quinnslobodian.com
@elerianm.bsky.social
@oldtrotter.bsky.social
Former economist and civil servant. Still a music fan and trying to return to being a cyclist after open heart surgery.
@simonkuper.bsky.social
Financial Times columnist, football podcaster at Heroes and Humans, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics etc. British and now French, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social
Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels BBC Newsnight 🎥 Ukrainecast 🎧 And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧 BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner
@cathynewman.bsky.social
Presenter & Investigations Editor, Channel 4 News; Presenter, Times Radio; Insta cathynewmanc4 Agent http://bit.ly/2m6VRis
@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.
@emile-chabal.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe (especially politics & ideas), intellectual history, Marxism, Hobsbawm. Editor of Contemporary European History. More about me: https://emilechabal.com/
@jpspencer.bsky.social
Director of Devolution Policy, Labour Together. Economist. Posts about policy, politics and the Pennines (and beyond). 📍 West Yorkshire.
@lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
“Women are keepers of their own story therefore they are historians.” Etel Adnan 'We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience', 2025. https://lyndseystonebridge.com/
@matthewbroome.bsky.social
Director, Institute for Mental Health, and Chair in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, University of Birmingham. Interested in psychosis, youth mental health, neuroscience, philosophy, phenomenology. NHS Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis
@hugorifkind.bsky.social
Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
@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
@artscouncilengland.bsky.social
Your national development agency for creativity and culture • Awarding @dcmsgovuk & @tnluk funds • Got a question? ☎️ artscouncil.org.uk/contact
@sarahmunro.bsky.social
Personal Account. Director: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Co-chair Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN). Board member: Scottish Futures Forum, Scottish Parliament. Interests: Art, Social Justice & forging alternatives to Fascism😬
@balticgateshead.bsky.social
Contemporary art gallery ✨ Open Wed-Sun 10am-6pm Free entry, no booking needed Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA https://baltic.art/
@culturednortheast.bsky.social
A website and FREE newsletter spreading the word about culture in North East England. All written, curated and delivered by award-winning journalists. Founded by @samwonfor.bsky.social and David Whetstone. Join our mailing list at culturednortheast.co.uk
@samwonfor.bsky.social
North East writer. Founder and co-editor Cultured. North East. Wife of 1; Mum of 2. Like the Fog on the Tyne, these views are all mine.
@livetheatre.bsky.social
Official account for Live Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne - NE1 3DQ Champions of risk. Lovers of the new. An epic space for the voices of the future. https://www.live.org.uk/
@litandphil.bsky.social
Newcastle's independent library, the Lit & Phil, is home to more than 200,000 books and music items, and has a rolling programme of events and activities. www.litandphil.org.uk
@davidwhetstone.bsky.social
Seasoned arts journo currently talking up North East England people, places and creativity on https://www.culturednortheast.co.uk/
@helenkennedy.bsky.social
Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News & Boston Herald.) NYC and North Fork. Francophile fan of Sondheim and Venice. Aspiring watercolorist. (Paintings now at @washbuckler.bsky.social) Hoping sarcasm works out better over here.
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social
25+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / board member, NY City Center
@jilldlawrence.bsky.social
Opinion writer. Pvs: Editor at USA Today Opinion and National Journal, campaign reporter at USA Today and AP. Author, "The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock." My work: https://jilllawrence.com
@pavisuri.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Government Department, LSE Indian politics, state capacity, status politics, historical political economy www.pavisuri.com Editor at http://broadstreet.blog
@dnaseemullah.bsky.social
Author: Development after Statism (Cambridge UP 2017); Patchwork States (Cambridge UP 2022); co-author, Righteous Demagogues (Oxford UP 2024). | www.naseemullah.com
@samfr.bsky.social
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com) Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Senior fellow: Institute for Government
@petridishes.bsky.social
I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
@katealexandershaw.bsky.social
Political economist at LSE European Institute. Into narrative, economic ideas and the comparative politics of crisis. Views all mine
@aiannucci.bsky.social
Words and smiles. BBC Sounds Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Also, Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social
@jessicacalarco.bsky.social
Sociologist studying families, schools, privilege, power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, Atlantic. Author of HOLDING IT TOGETHER | QUALITATIVE LITERACY | FIELD GUIDE TO GRAD SCHOOL "Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women" www.jessicacalarco.com
@adamprz.bsky.social
@saltpublishing.com
WELCOME to Salt, one of the UK’s great independent publishers, established in 1999. Over twenty-six years, we have grown into a daring literary powerhouse, winning scores of awards around the world. Directors: @chrisemery.me & @jenhemery.bsky.social
@aveek18.bsky.social
Treasury civil servant, so afraid I have to be a bit more boring on here now. Ex @smfthinktank.bsky.social
@johnhiggs.bsky.social
Writing dad's Christmas present since 2012 - https://linktr.ee/johnhiggs
@hern.bsky.social
AI writer at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
@steveakehurst.bsky.social
Politics, policy, public attitudes. Work in polling and comms. Director, Persuasion UK. ex- Shelter, civil service and various other things. 🏳️🌈 https://persuasionuk.org/about https://strongmessagehere.substack.com/