Mark Kieran
💥 Determined Democracy Reformer 💥
CEO @openbritain.bsky.social
DIR @fairvoteuk.bsky.social
Ugly Politix Substack
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@soniapurnell.bsky.social
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s astonishing life of power, seduction & intrigue. Described as ‘triumph’ by William Boyd. New York Times bestselling author. A Woman of No Importance. Tried to warn you about Johnson. Plutarch Prize winner www.soniapurnell.com
@cbarnard.bsky.social
Professor of EU law and Employment law, Trinity College Cambridge, senior fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Knows a little bit about EU and Brexit things.
@theneweuropean.bsky.social
Read: TheNewEuropean.co.uk Subscribe: TheNewEuropean.co.uk/subscribe Buy merch: shop.theneweuropean.co.uk
@paulmason.bsky.social
📈Journalist 📖 Writer 🎥 Film-maker 🤷🏻♂️ Public Speaker 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier owner 📰 https://open.substack.com/pub/htsf?r=2sidg&utm_medium=ios
@philipstephens.bsky.social
Writer, historian, Contrib Ed,FT, Senior Visiting Fellow STG, EUI, author These Divided Isles (Faber August 2025) British, Irish and European. philipstephens@substack.com
@ruthfox.bsky.social
Director of @HansardSociety. Subscribe to our newsletter at: http://hansardsociety.org.uk/connect Non-parliamentary tweets most likely to be about @BarnsleyFC.
@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.
@shonamurray.bsky.social
Europe Correspondent Euronews. Based in Brussels. Edward R. Murrow alum. Euronews.com
@syrpis.bsky.social
Professor of EU Law at the University of Bristol. On here mainly for inexpert political noodling and discussion, with occasional forays into EU law. And, puns. Sorry.
@profpech.bsky.social
Professor of Law, Dean of @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest, and co-director of @goodlobbyprofs.bsky.social. Usual disclaimers.
@conunitucl.bsky.social
The UK's leading research centre on constitutional change, covering parliament, government, democracy, elections and more. Sign up to hear about our blog posts, events and publications 👉 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/get-involved/mailing-list
@ottocr.at
Anglo-Schwäbisch eurocrat | maker of EU foreign policy & spätzle | guerrilla knitter | cross-Channel commuter | was once @ottocrat | currently clean on OPSEC
@profmarkelliott.bsky.social
Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge. Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Blog: www.publiclawforeveryone.com. Website: www.markelliott.org
@tanjabueltmann.net
Professor University of Strathclyde | migration & diaspora history | history of collective action | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•her | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
@dralanwager.bsky.social
Politics, public opinion and public policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Expect musings, maps and graphs on all the above, mostly. Also, got a book out! Email: a.wager@institute.global
@thombrooks.bsky.social
Principal of Collingwood College, Durham from 1 September. Professor of Law and Government, Durham Law School. Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School. Immigrant.
@dgbailey.bsky.social
#industrialstrategy Birmingham Business School, UK in a Changing Europe Senior Fellow, Contemporary Social Science Editor in Chief, Editor Regional Studies, ‘activist academic’ (Gove’s 🪓man Max Caller), Birmingham Post Columnist, Likes EVs. Baggies fan.
@anthonybarnett.bsky.social
‘Notes on Now’ every month in Byline Times, Co-founder openDemocracy Led Charter 88 from 1988-2005. Iron Britannia; The Lure of Greatness; Taking Control! Etc Online articles in Authory.
@coppetainpu.bsky.social
In 🇨🇭, from all over. Mainly trade. Journalist. WTO Secretariat 1996-2015. Usual disclaimers. Member: http://fmg-geneva.org. Web: https://tradebetablog.wordpress.com/ (follow for alerts)
@annajerzewska.bsky.social
PhD in Customs and Trade Facilitation. Founder of Trade and Borders. Customs rapporteur for EuroCommerce. Customs and International Trade Lead at CBAMBOO. Brexit veteran
@michielvanhulten.eu
EU politics and policy. Democracy defender, transparency & accountability campaigner. Former EU/NL politician and official. I unfollow people who post screenshots from X without a valid professional excuse.
@nashsgc.bsky.social
Former civil servant, U.K./EU negotiator, U.K. automotive Brexit & international trade lead, former this, that and the other, always Palace
@jamesmchapman.bsky.social
Director of PR firm Soho Communications. Former director of comms at HM Treasury. Former political editor, occasional columnist for @cityam.bsky.social. Views my own. www.sohocommunications.co.uk
@woodstockjag.bsky.social
Constitutional pedant, Partick Thistle-supporting masochist, atrocious recreational golfer. Director and Secretary @thejagsfoundation.bsky.social
@sjamcbride.bsky.social
Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph & Sunday Independent. Author of Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal. Any views mine alone.
@kirstyshughes.bsky.social
European, Scottish and UK politics - and sometimes photography/nature/landscapes. Blogs on Europe & Scotland https://open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhughes?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8ztbl
@joeydurso.bsky.social
Senior data journalist, The Times and the Sunday Times | Author of MORE THAN A SHIRT out June 2025: https://geni.us/MoreThanAShirt | joey.durso@the-times.co.uk
@garvanwalshe.org
Civic entrepreneur building tech for democrats of all parties and none at Article7.eu. I also chair Unhack Democracy and write on foreign affairs, defence and democracy.
@katyhayward.bsky.social
As it turns out, a Professor of Political Sociology at Queen's University Belfast working in & on the island of Ireland. Own my own views. http://go.qub.ac.uk/hayward
@pholmes8.bsky.social
Semi-retired trade economist, Emeritus @ UKTPO Sussex. Posts about Brexit, Freeports, WTO and anything else that catches my fancy. Migrating across from other place. Tweeted as @pholmes8. Blogs with others at https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/blog/
@cleodavies.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations at Forward College in Paris. Formerly with PAIS Warwick Uni on project ‘Living with the Neighbours: the UK, the EU and wider Europe' - UK in a Changing Europe.
@nialloconghaile.bsky.social
🇪🇺 @nialloconghaile from the other place. Views my own; RT = interest, not endorsement.
@alynsmith.bsky.social
Scottish European | Vice President @euromovescotland.bsky.social | Chair @CreateStirling | Board @RadicalWeavers | Columnist @ScotNational.bsky.social | MEP 2004/19, MP 2019/24 | @theSNP.bsky.social NEC | (Photo the brilliant @thekiltedphoto.bsky.social)
@bremaininspain.com
A pro-EU campaign group set up to oppose Brexit, protect the rights of British migrants living in Spain/EU & to rejoin. We believe freedom of movement is a force of good; in a democracy free from division & interference; equality. www.Bremaininspain.com
@patricklohlein.bsky.social
30 years in Campaigns & Comms, International Business & Public Affairs in Asia & Europe | 中国通 | builder of bridges across political & cultural divides | passionate about development & environment, liberty & the rule of law | occasionally ✍️ 📺 🎙 at various
@simonubsdell.bsky.social
Still raging about the abject moral abomination of Brexitism. Things I rage about less: Herodotus/Sophocles/5thc Athens, mograph/VFX, music.
@richardbarfield.bsky.social
Management consultant. Adviser on governance, risk and regulation in financial services. Developing skills in semi-retired activities and caretaker of https://BrexitFactBase.com London-based.
@blogwyatt.bsky.social
Derrick Wyatt, KC. Retired Oxford Law Professor, EU Courts advocate and legal adviser. Writes on current affairs, law and international relations. https://derrickwyatt.substack.co
@gbenedetto.bsky.social
Reader in European Politics. 🪑 of Exams @rhulpir.bsky.social Also posts as Jean Monnet 🪑 at @jeanmonnetrhul.bsky.social FRSA, #T1D https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/giacomo-benedetto
@simonfraser00.bsky.social
Chair of Chatham House. Founding partner of Flint Global. Former Perm Sec at UK Foreign Office and Business Department.
@uktpo.org
The UK Trade Policy Observatory offers expertise and services to support the reconstruction of the UK's international trading environment post-Brexit.
@gabrielsilesb.bsky.social
Professor in Global Governance & Public Policy, @uob-policystudies.bsky.social | Co-edit @jcms-eu.bsky.social | IPE, EU Studies, public policy, trade, Brexit, health | 🇪🇸 & 🇩🇪 | In @ucu.org.uk | Own views | He/Him.
@lisajames.bsky.social
Researcher at the Constitution Unit, working on the Constitutional Principles and Health of Democracy project. Co-author, The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit.
@sabine34.bsky.social
Aime se perdre dans la littérature pour échapper aux horreurs de ce monde. Ce qui n'empêche pas d'avoir des opinions, parfois décalées, rarement tranchées.
@richardbentall.bsky.social
Political refugee from the cesspit formerly known as Twitter; clinical psychology professor; husband of lovely Sam; dad of two amazing kids and two wonderful stepkids; radicalized by the idiocy of Brexit. Obviously, my views are not those of my employer.
@michaelaodhan.bsky.social
Father, politico, foodie, linguist, runner, etymologist Wearer of the Brex-hat! Beard of Ireland 21/22/23/24