Richard Brown
Cities, urban economics, housing, puns, poetry and pop music. Views are mine.
@robanderson17.bsky.social
Housing nerd and into all things London. Chatty to a fault. Research Director @centrelondon.bsky.social
@jayrayner1.bsky.social
Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
@luketurner.bsky.social
Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
@greatdismal.bsky.social
Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
@jydenham.bsky.social
Director, Centre for English Identity and Politics, Southampton. Former Labour Minister, Interested in England's governance, devolution, identities and relationship with its unions.
@vizcomic.bsky.social
Our readers have understood the concept of Buyer's Remorse since 1979. Digital Sub: http://shop.viz.co.uk/subscription/d… Postal Sub: http://subscribe.viz.co.uk
@markdoyle.bsky.social
Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. In Nashville. Wrote a book-and-a-half on Belfast & one on the Kinks. Latest is John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical”-Mail on Sunday
@natcen.bsky.social
The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) is Britain's leading independent social research organisation. Visit natcen.ac.uk for more information.
@rcolvile.bsky.social
Director of CPS, editor-in-chief of CapX, columnist for The Sunday Times, author of The Great Acceleration. Politics, policy and parenting.
@stephencollins.bsky.social
Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
@bingingout.bsky.social
Looking for Lit SFF agents/editors | Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Translunar Travelers Lounge, The Bombay Literary Magazine, and more | abhijeetmakesthings.com (WIP)
@themanfromicon.bsky.social
rides, writes, reads, prints www.themanfromicon.net https://www.etsy.com/shop/themanfromiconprints/ Brighton, UK
@sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social
I am a screenwriter (Blinded by the Light), author (Greetings from Bury Park, They), journalist (Guardian, Times and lots of others), I teach at UCL and am working on my first stage play. Mostly though I am a husband and father of two young children.
@naomialderman.bsky.social
I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
@simonparker.bsky.social
Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Rebel just for kicks.
@pastpostcard.bsky.social
Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
@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
@claireboardman.bsky.social
People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social (she/her)
@ben-rog.bsky.social
Urbanist & writer; Professor @UoL University of London; Distinguished Fellow @LSECities; Founding Director @CentreforLondon; Chair @DesignSouthEast. Interests include Citizenship, public realm, urban government and democracy, sustainable urbanism, London
@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.
@garethdennis.bsky.social
Railway engineer and writer. Hosts railnatter.bsky.social. Director of E2M. Lecturer for the PWI and elsewhere. Co-founder of the Campaign for Level Boarding. Chair of NEREF. He/him. Buy my book: https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways
@kenanmalik.bsky.social
Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
@cjayanetti.bsky.social
Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits - these days mainly for the Observer, Big Issue and Politics Home. Not a tribalist. I like good things and I don't like bad things.
@dlknowles.bsky.social
Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC. Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV Reach me on Signal: dlknowles.12
@lynnemiles.bsky.social
Economic policy, planning, transport, environment, housing & place. New town baby. Political about #pockets. Working in Cambridge local government. Formerly of DLUHC, BEIS, WhatWorksGrowth and Arup.
@teraallas.bsky.social
@gaylussite.himbonomics.com
𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴. Data analytics engineer by day, ageist queer by night. | 🌍: 🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇮🇪 | 🗣️: 🏴🇫🇷 | ✍️: @theipaper @unherd Long form posts on housing, urbanism and progress: www.himbonomics.com 🧩
@antbreach.bsky.social
Associate Director at Centre for Cities, working on Housing, Planning, Devolution. Stuff on Ukraine + Eastern Europe and Japan + East Asia too. YIMBY. Views own etc. 🥑🇺🇦
@stianwestlake.bsky.social
Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council. Metascience, evidence, data infrastructures, economic growth.
@timleunig.bsky.social
Policy thoughts: http://timleunig.substack.com Chief Economist Nesta, Director Econ PublicFirst, Vis Prof LSE Sch Public Policy, Vis Fellow Inst for Govt
@gilesyb.bsky.social
Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, baker of overly dense loaves. I run five times a week so does that make me a Running Punk?
@sambowman.co
Editor of www.worksinprogress.co and head of publishing at Stripe. Just here to have fun.
@tomchivers.bsky.social
"Far too nice to be a journalist," per Terry Pratchett. Lead writer on Semafor's Flagship newsletter. DMs open; chiversthomas(a)gmail. Latest book, Everything is Predictable: geni.us/EIPBook Podcast, The Studies Show: https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com
@anyamartin.bsky.social
Housing affordability wonk & number cruncher. Former director @ PricedOut
@worksinprogress.bsky.social
Works in Progress is an online magazine about new & underrated ways to improve the world. worksinprogress.co
@hannahritchie.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, Our World in Data Senior Researcher, University of Oxford Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
@ollywainwright.bsky.social
Architecture and design critic of the @theguardian.com oliver.wainwright@theguardian.com https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliver-wainwright
@davidlawrenceuk.bsky.social
Shooting for UK growth & progress with ukdayone.org @ukdayone.bsky.social Previously: Chatham House research fellow and Labour parliamentary candidate. Britain could have the highest living standards in the world!
@joshneicho.bsky.social
🖋️ Comms and journalism, scribble-bibble mostly in the West Mids 🏭🌾, often in London 💂♂️. Grassroots politics, society, culture, media, history, walking, SMEs & social enterprise, global UK, cheap eats from Kingswinford-Kings Cross 🪢👑
@jamesomalley.co.uk
@Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff. Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk #FREETHEPAF