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@financialtimes.com
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@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Editor and CEO, Zeteo Author, ‘Win Every Argument’ British-American
@nigella.bsky.social
Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
@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
@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
@adambienkov.bsky.social
Editor of BylineTimes.com Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️ https://www.adambienkov.co.uk
@sturdyalex.bsky.social
I write, act, sing, broadcast and cook. Occasionally, even for money. One third of the @quietriotpod.bsky.social with @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social Support me on https://ko-fi.com/quietriotpod
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social
Political columnist, The Guardian Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
@arusbridger.bsky.social
Editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk / Former EiC the Guardian/ @reutersinstitute ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
@ottoenglish.bsky.social
Professional irritant. Born Andrew Scott. Write books, journalism and far, far too many social media posts. Books https://linktr.ee/OttoEnglish
@ozkaterji.bsky.social
Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement. https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
@nytimes.com
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
@robfordmancs.bsky.social
Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Author of "Brexitland" and "The British General Election of 2019" My Substack, "The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/ https://www.robertford.net/
@carolvorders.bsky.social
Hello lovelies. This is my official account.. 💙💙 Glad to be over here from the "other place"😂 It's like breathing clean air again 👍🏼
@aiannucci.bsky.social
Words and smiles. BBC Sounds Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Also, Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social
@gavinesler.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
Help us build the better - independent - media Britain deserves. Subscribe for exclusive content only in the Byline Times news magazine: subscribe.bylinetimes.com Visit our free daily news site: bylinetimes.com
@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
@michamahlberg.bsky.social
Corpus Linguist, Discourse Analyst, Victorianist, Climate Science & Climate Discourse, Host of the Life & Language podcast https://michaelamahlberg.com/
@ronmeechan.bsky.social
@gabrielmilland.bsky.social
Mainly research for strategy. Former senior UK government comms official and adviser. Once a journalist. Further back, a historian of the media, war and public opinion. Halberdier. Aggro-centrist. Bristol City FC.
@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
@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Welcome to my shiny new echo chamber… hoping here that I can keep it clean and tidy and ‘woke’. IRL - lawyer (of the lefty, campaigning variety).
@rolandmcs.bsky.social
Brexitologist and disillusioned former Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute. Posting on Brexit, the populist & conspiracist fallout from it and the political Right's general descent into hell. Curator of mad Telegraph headlines buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
@brendanmay.bsky.social
Sustainable business entrepreneur. Advisor to multinational firms around the world. Advocate for pragmatic, fact-based environmentalism. Music lover. Found mainly in London and South East Asia.
@matthewbroome.bsky.social
Director, Institute for Mental Health, and Chair in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, University of Birmingham. Interested in psychosis, youth mental health, neuroscience, philosophy, phenomenology. NHS Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis
@lauraskh.bsky.social
Australian Senior Lecturer (=AssocProf), language, law & society. #LLIRN. External CESSMIR UGent. @languageonthemove.bsky.social member. Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed & prac, access to justice ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
@lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
“Women are keepers of their own story therefore they are historians.” Etel Adnan 'We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience', 2025. https://lyndseystonebridge.com/
@adamcschembri.bsky.social
https://sites.google.com/view/adamcschembri/home Australian professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK Born/raised on Dharug land 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺 Hearing person interested in sign languages & signing communities
@implausibleblog.bsky.social
Content Creator 🤓 Photo Video & Drone Pilot 🎥 Entrepreneur & Tech Geek 🤖 Food & Chocolate Judge 😋 And now news as frustrated 👀 Better together: 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺 AskUs@Implausibleblog.com
@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
@nandosigona.bsky.social
Professor @unibirmingham.bsky.social UK, FAcSS Director @irisbirmingham.bsky.social Research: #migration, #asylum, #citizenship, #diversity https://www.nandosigona.info https://www.i-claim.eu podcast https://whodowethinkweare.org/ #runner
@stephenpihlaja.bsky.social
Author, Academic, Campaigner Also: Language Linguistics Religion Education Aston University Birmingham Community Organising Running Immigration Veganism bit.ly/m/SPihlaja
@joannemccuaig.bsky.social
#Qualitative Researcher | Wellbeing when working with Emotionally Demanding Material; How the public uses Mental Health Terminology #trauma | #Linguistics and Communication https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/mccuaig-joanne
@umerkarim.bsky.social
Researcher. Interested in Gulf Studies/Saudi Arabia/South Asia البدو من الأوقات
@newsagents.bsky.social
Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond. With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player. .
@andymay101.bsky.social
Comms consultant / adviser. Previously of Hackney now of Derbyshire Helping social change / purpose orgs realise their press and influencing potential.
@musabb.bsky.social
An eater of foods, a reader of words, a changer of moods, a scarer of birds
@mandytlew.bsky.social
Shout Volunteer and Digital Communications consultant in the UK specialising in social media. No DMs please.
@hugorifkind.bsky.social
Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
@hasanpatel.bsky.social
Strategic Comms, ex BBC and Al Jazeera journalist | Interests in comms, current affairs, cricket, running, and MUFC | Own views