The Last Best Hope? Podcast
The podcast from Oxford University's Rothermere American Institute that explores how history has shaped America.
Host: aipsmith.bsk.social
@raioxford.bsky.social
The RAI is a Department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of the USA. Check out our podcast, The Last Best Hope with our Director, Professor Adam Smith! https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/
@danrowe.bsky.social
Historian. Director of Academic Programmes, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Political economy, capitalism, urban, and policy history.
@jamesdaustin.bsky.social
This again. Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
@leftback.bsky.social
Chelsea and very socially liberal politics, so basically you'll get angry at something.
@stevenhseggie.bsky.social
marketing professor @ESSEC, ex-Turkey, UK, USA. Sport / politics / digital transformation / countering disinformation / “unsung hero of BlueSky” / 🐶 Western suburbs of Paris
@peark.es
No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | QCR: Non Culto, For The Crown | American via Canada, not Scottish. *ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG 📍 CLT
@radiobeartime.com
Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire. “Squalid, not a decent Brit” - Keir Starmer Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji “O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?” Was @marxculture on Twitter
@athenepallas.bsky.social
@rosamundi.bsky.social
Velocipedestrienne, flâneuse, solivagant, bibliophile, needlesmith. #RosamundiWalks and #VignettesFromTheBikeLane. Swans. Cricket.
@brokenbanker.bsky.social
Equities, ETFs, Rates, FX trader. also 🎥, 📺, 🏏, 🎶. will never spam you with crypto, so ignore any imposters pretending to be me.
@samgadjones.bsky.social
European Security Correspondent for the Financial Times. Hanging around Central Europe. (And currently working on an investigative podcast out this summer). Formerly FT investigations, UCLSSEES, FT defence & security editor & way back the LSE Also 🎿🚴♂️📚🏔️
@domw.bsky.social
Chief economist at Absolute Strategy Research in London. But all of the nonsense I spout on here is mine and mine alone. Will never spam you with crypto scams in your DMs.
@willcooling.bsky.social
Writes & Hosts the It Could Be Said substack & podcast; https://itcouldbesaid.substack.com/. Writes a fortnightly column for CityAM and has contributed to a variety of outlets on politics, sport or pop culture. All opinions his own & not of any employer.
@franglaise.bsky.social
Franglaise. Nr Bordeaux. Introvert. Sweary. Shitposter. Pics: There is no Dog, Calvin, Chonk & random nice stuff I see (France). Prone to occasional ranty outbursts. Here for cats/floofs/nice views/cheese/daft shit
@smtuffy.bsky.social
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too.
@andraswf.bsky.social
Hungarian-born British screenwriter. Same hat size as Ralph Fiennes, same shoe size as Anthony Eden As seen on the Bird App A national security threat, according to Donald Trump IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3416508
@ariehkovler.com
Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. [email protected]. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
@pauljdavies.bsky.social
Has views on banking and finance for Bloomberg Opinion. Just because you “like” something doesn’t mean you *like* something… Money. Music. Books and Bad like really atrocious Jokes. Also #COYS
@daphnethecat.com
Humble mechanical servant of Daphne, powered by a Raspberry Pi Original project: https://blog.berniesumption.com/software/daphnes-tweeting-catflap/ Updated fork: https://github.com/simonprickett/tweeting-catflap
@anamariecox.bsky.social
Writer, host of podcasts: sci-fi deep dive "Space the Nation" & mental health convos at "Another Day." Leading The Third Story Workshop. More at anamariecox.com
@cmcknichols.bsky.social
Historian, Hayes Chair @OhioState Mershon Ctr Carnegie Fellow 6 Books: Ideology in US Foreign Relations, Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Promise & Peril. Isolationism, Internationalism, Globalization. ⚾️
@jbf1755.bsky.social
Childless bird lady. Historian of “early” US politics & culture; howl re: democracy on a daily basis. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird. https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
@lollardfish.bsky.social
Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #Oathbreakers: https://tinyurl.com/oathbreakersHC. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://sethcotlar.substack.com/
@lorak.bsky.social
reporter at cnbc.com. email: [email protected] - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla (some climate tech startups). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
@gcapoccia.bsky.social
Politics Professor, University of Oxford. How liberal democracies respond to extremism and illiberalism. Liberal democracy and its others. Washington DC, Oxford, Rome. More info: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/
@alanbeattie.bsky.social
Opiner for Financial Times in London. Globalisation, econ, snark. RT≠👍. Views own. [email protected]. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://subs.ft.com/spa3_tradesecrets?segmentId=357afa03-959c-93ed-0842-58e2115025d4.
@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
@chadbourn.bsky.social
📖Sunday Times bestselling author, 📺TV screenwriter, 📇journalist at The New European, Guardian, Times 📶Economist. ✂️Runs with scissors. LDN, NYC, LA https://www.markchadbourn.co.uk for contact, agents etc
@ldfreedman.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
"an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
@lrb.co.uk
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of politics, literature, history and ideas, published every fortnight. Read: https://lrb.co.uk Subscribe: https://mylrb.co.uk/QUEXT0225B
@bonniehonig.bsky.social
PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic, and a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind). New article on Singin in the Rain ☔️ and Sorry to Bother You 🐴 out now in Cultural Critique
@kjhealy.co
Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick. https://kieranhealy.org / https://theordinalsociety.com
@dsquareddigest.bsky.social
Malcolm Sparrow in the streets, Stafford Beer in the sheets. Once I wrote about fraud and its detection; currently writing about the industrialisation of decision making in general
@eparpillee.bsky.social
Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
@ianmartin.bsky.social
Have Love, Won't Travel. Comedy writer: The Thick of It, The Death of Stalin, Veep, The Hartlepool Spy, Unhinged, Epic Space. ET CETERA THERE'S MORE. Nuisance: https://pod.link/1774465485
@victoriancommons.bsky.social
The History of Parliament's House of Commons 1832-1945 project, currently researching MPs, elections and parliamentary history between 1832 and 1868. Find more details on our blog: https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/
@jonesemily.bsky.social
Historian of politics and ideas at the University of Manchester. Author of Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism. Writing a book about the Disraeli myth and One Nation.
@sundersays.bsky.social
Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694 Evertonian
@davidlidington.bsky.social
Chair: RUSI, Conservative European Forum, Koenigswinter Conference & Aurora Forum. Trustee, Institute for Govt. History, singing & hill walking enthusiast. Ex-Minister & MP.
@profmarkelliott.bsky.social
Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge. Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Blog: www.publiclawforeveryone.com. Website: www.markelliott.org
@tombennett71.bsky.social
Behaviour advisor to the UK Department of Education. Founder of researchED. Professor of School Behaviour. Academica University of Applied Science.
@adamwagner1.bsky.social
Barrister specialising in human rights, public law and public inquiries. Views my own https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/adam-wagner
@anthonypainter.bsky.social
Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment. "The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter #ynwa