Sebastian Payne
Leader writer and columnist @thetimes.com
Previously seen at Onward and FT. Author of Broken Heartlands and The Fall of Boris Johnson.
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@rhiannonwilliams.bsky.social
Reporter at MIT Technology Review, writing about AI, robots & what's next. I write The Download, the best daily tech newsletter around: https://www.technologyreview.com/topic/download-newsletter/
@jonathansimons.bsky.social
Partner, Public First and Head of Education Practice. Education strategy + policy advisory. Former civil servant + think tanker. Occasional loud LFC. Centrist Dad, so naturally I also have a Substack.
@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social
Writing (slowly) about Labour’s existential struggles since 1976 for Polity. Knows stuff about politics & culture. Labour List: https://labourlist.org/author/s-fielding/ Zeitgeist Tapes: https://shorturl.at/nwdO4
@grantshapps.bsky.social
Former: United Kingdom Defence Secretary | Energy and Net Zero Secretary | Business Secretary | Home Secretary | Transport Secretary | Foreign Minister of State | Housing Minister https://linktr.ee/grantshapps
@alicettimes.bsky.social
Columnist/Interviewer on The Times. Presenter with @RSylvesterTimes of podcast Past Imperfect. Author: The Singing Line/ What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Young
@greenmirandahere.bsky.social
Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. More yakking. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb
@georgewparker.bsky.social
Political Editor Financial Times, former FT bureau chief in Brussels. Presenter R4 Week in Westminster. Crystal Palace and Somerset CCC supporter
@edwardlucas.bsky.social
Journalist, author, thinktanker, baker, swimmer, politician. Lifelong Kremlin-basher.
@poppykoronka.bsky.social
Health Correspondent at the Times. News and tips to poppy.koronka@the-times.co.uk
@rhysblakely.bsky.social
Science reporter for The Times. Tips always welcome. rhys.blakely@thetimes.co.uk
@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
@masieghart.bsky.social
Recovering journalist. Author of The Authority Gap, Consultant, TED speaker, Visiting Prof, King’s College London. Director, Guardian Media Group. All opinions mine, not theirs, natch.
@jkirkup.bsky.social
Partner at Apella Advisors Columnist for the Times and Spectator Fellow of the Social Market Foundation
@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
@opinion.bloomberg.com
Opinions on business, economics, technology and more from the columnists at Bloomberg Opinion. 📧 Newsletter: http://trib.al/BNqIxPf 🌎💻📊🏦🗺️♻️
@pmarslanagic.bsky.social
Children are good! Working on the birth rate challenge at Onward & the Boom Campaign | Columnist at City AM | Surname is pronounced: ars-lah-nah-gitch
@proftomkins.bsky.social
Professor of Law, University of Glasgow. New book, On The Law of Speaking Freely, out soon with Hart.
@melanieonnmp.bsky.social
MP for Great Grimsby & Cleethorpes | Renewables | UNISON, Coop, Fabians | Trustee for Shalom | Director at Grimsby Community Energy | Dog-mum
@saqibbhattimp.bsky.social
Member of Parliament for Meriden and Solihull East Shadow Minister of State for Department for Media, Culture and Sport.
@daveweigel.bsky.social
National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
@bellamackie.bsky.social
I wrote the book you gave your mum as a Christmas gag. https://www.waterstones.com/book/what-a-way-to-go/bella-mackie/9780008718251
@spiegelpeter.bsky.social
Managing Editor of The Washington Post. Long-suffering Orioles fan.
@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.
@saschaosullivan.bsky.social
Host, Westminster Insider, POLITICO Europe sosullivan@politico.co.uk
@callumtprice.bsky.social
Director of Communications at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Former Special Adviser at Home Office, Justice, DLUHC. Geordie Evertonian. Views my own.
@nextgentories.bsky.social
The campaign calling for the Conservative Party to deliver working age people’s priorities; Work, Home and Family.
@dinosofos.bsky.social
Podcast producer. Founder CEO @persephonica.bsky.social, Co-founder Crossed Wires festival // www.persephonica.com
@archiehall.bsky.social
Writing for The Economist — mostly on the British economy with occasional forays elsewhere. Previous lives in macro investing and polling. Substack at: https://notes.archie-hall.com/
@officialedballs.bsky.social
Dad, cook, pianist, economist, Harvard, King's London, Holocaust Fdn co-Chair, NCFC, podcaster, retired dancer, former Cabinet minister, sometimes on TV & Radio
@gbnewsonline.bsky.social
LIVE now: Sky 512, Virgin 604, Freeview 236, Freesat 216, YouView 236, Samsung 4326, Sky Glass 509, DAB+ Radio, GB News App, YouTube, Online
@birdyword.bsky.social
Wall Street editor at The Economist, co-host of our Money Talks podcast.
@sonia-sodha.bsky.social
Observer columnist & chief leader writer, Radio 4 presenter & @ThisMorning news reviews. Highly commended @EditorsUK Commentator of the Year 2023. @soniasodha on X.
@richardaljones.bsky.social
Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy, University of Manchester. Science & innovation policy, regional economic growth, polymer physics. www.softmachines.org
@noahkeate.bsky.social
Writer. Journalist. Live News Reporter for @politico.eu. Loves cats, Edinburgh, 'The Archers', trains and Earl Grey Tea. Email: nkeate@politico.co.uk
@calgie.bsky.social
Senior Political Correspondent, Daily Express. YIMBY. Tip-offs: DMs or christian.calgie@reachplc.com.
@rajivshah.bsky.social
Interested in law, politics, the constitution, and policy. Former special adviser in MOJ, AGO, and No 10. @RajivShah90 at the other place