Chris Condron's Starter Pack
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@chriscondron.bsky.social
@jim.londoncentric.media
Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media
@lewisgoodall.com
Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12. Website: lewisgoodall.com Email: lewis.goodall@global.com Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
@sethabramson.bsky.social
Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds), former CNN and BBC analyst, poet, retired journalism professor. 👤: sethabramson.net/bio ⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com 🕹: retrostack.substack.com 🎶: houndsmusic.substack.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
@stephenkb.bsky.social
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
jester of goodwill (journalist, author, radio person, etc) marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
@martinstabe.ft.com
Data journalist at @data.ft.com. These days mainly thinking about elections data and how to use automation and AI in news. Currently at #ijf25 #ddj #dataviz
@janinegibson.ft.com
Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
@jonnelledge.bsky.social
#1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Not an American.
@barristersecret.bsky.social
Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman. Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth• Also writes thrillers as S.J. Fleet. The Cut Throat Trial coming 28 Aug 2025.
@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social
Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705
@davidallengreen.bsky.social
Commentator on law and policy. Own blog/substack, but also Prospect, FT, elsewhere. Liberal constitutionalist; Villa supporter; sometimes ironic. Birmingham/London, England. (Account deactivated when not used.)
@peterjukes.bsky.social
Dramatist wrenched out of fiction 10 years ago by the fierce urgency of fact (& Murdoch crimes). Co founder @Byline.com and @BylineTimes.bsky.social - myself here
@sathnam.bsky.social
Writer @thetimes. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. Join me on my Empireworld tour in 2025. Pre-order my book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador in 2026. www.sathnam.com
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
@bobmort.bsky.social
@davelee.me
US technology columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York. Previously FT and BBC. Watching Cambridge United from afar. dlee1285@bloomberg.net / Signal: davelee.01 / www.davelee.me
@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
@mrchrisaddison.bsky.social
Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy. Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
@watsoncomedian.bsky.social
Comedian, author, producer. Your mum is a fan. But not like THAT.
@kathyburke.bsky.social
Burkey with the good hair. My woke take brings all the c*n*s to the yard. Profile pic by Nancy fancy pants
@quantick.bsky.social
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. Author of RICKY'S HAND, NIGHT TRAIN, ALL MY COLORS, ETC. Emmy (Veep). Website: www.davidquantick.com. THE OLD FOOLS podcast: https://tinyurl.com/3vrazkj5
@ianrankin1.bsky.social
Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
@manmademoon.bsky.social
I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute, the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie. ROGUE TROOPER movie in the works.
@chriscook.news
ft senior reporter. articles with my byline get posted automagically on @bot.chriscook.news
@stephenmcgann.uk
Doctor Thingy in Whatsitsname. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
@rhodri.biz
Vapid Response Unit. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi Also, musical human. Producer for Lush Handmade Sounds. Perform with Scritti Politti, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint etc. More info at rhodri.biz
@ianbetteridge.com
Anecdontalist. He of the eponymous law. FRSA. Good at writing and sums. Degrowther, and not a fan of capitalism. Your pal. The Eye of Sauron, but for headlines. Made by socialism and immigration, which seems to annoy people.
@mrjohncrace.bsky.social
Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.
@bondhack.ft.com
Corporate Finance Editor at the Financial Times. Have a tip? Email: robert.smith@ft.com / robert.smith.ft@proton.me | Signal: robert_smith_ft.55
@soozuk.bsky.social
"Comedian". DOOM in @bbcdoctorwho. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social Acting: The Foundry Management Comedy: Gag Reflex VO: The Joneses she/her www.soozkempner.co.uk/gigs
@andrewmale.bsky.social
Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist. Cultivating the echo chamber since 2011.
@andydawson.bsky.social
Participant in @AthleticoMince.bsky.social @TFTimeMachine.bsky.social and @unseriousdarts.bsky.social. My life is well within its usual frame.
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Internet person. Community tech, careful innovation, trying to make progressive tech policy happen. https://carefultrouble.net https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
@jamestplunkett.bsky.social
Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together. Also digital stuff. Book: End State: http://amzn.to/3FzY7lv. 🏳️⚧️
@sirmichael.bsky.social
Creator of the Sturdy Wheelbarrows podcast and the grandson who continues to be persecuted for wearing jean shorts to his grandad's funeral :(
@snellarthur.bsky.social
Writer, podcaster and former diplomat. https://www.rusi.org/people/snell arthursnell.substack.com
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@chriscondron.bsky.social
Doer of digital. CDO @UAL; trustee @edintfest. Previously @BBC @PA @ITV & @AOL, initially. Potty-mouthed, bad dad dancer who loves a hill.