Jamie Furlong's Starter Pack
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@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Editor and CEO, Zeteo Author, ‘Win Every Argument’ British-American
@robdelaney.bsky.social
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm
@angryblacklady.bsky.social
3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | co-host of Boom! Lawyered podcast | Editor-at-Large at @rewirenewsgroup.com | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America.
@dandrezner.bsky.social
Political science professor, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
@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
@calltoactivism.bsky.social
Founded to stand up to Trump and the GOP. Legal analysis & news the media is missing.
@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
@drjennings.bsky.social
I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon. Pre-order our new book, "Life After Cars," coming Oct 2025 from Thesis / Penguin Random House. https://www.lifeaftercars.com/ https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
@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.
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.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
@juliaazari.bsky.social
Political science professor. Has thoughts about that thing someone said. https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/
@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
@jamesrball.com
Tech, policy, politics. Pol ed @ the New European, fellow @ Demos, writer in various other places. Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World https://www.jamesrball.com/
@catworkers.bsky.social
Official account • good cats being workers • unionized • mascot: Jobert the cat • Business/credit/removal: translatedcats@gmail.com • Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/translatedcats/
@anandmenon.bsky.social
Director @ukandeu Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
@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
@roberthutton.co.uk
RobDotHutton from the broken site. Parliamentary sketches and film columnist for The Critic, co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. New spy book "The Illusionist" is out now.
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Investigative journalist. Author of best-selling book Democracy for Sale - and best-selling newsletter of same name. Sign up for Democracy for Sale newsletter: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
@edhawkins.org
Climate scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading | IPCC AR6 Lead Author | MBE | Views own | https://edhawkins.org Warming Stripes: http://www.ShowYourStripes.info
@hannahritchie.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, Our World in Data Senior Researcher, University of Oxford Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
Co-host, The War on Cars. Writer, TV producer, advocate, runner, Disney parks fan. Born at 330.21 ppm. (he/him) Pre-order our new book, "Life After Cars," coming in October from Thesis, an imprint of Penguin Random House. https://linktr.ee/brooklynspoke
@benansell.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. Why Politics Fails. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host of What’s Wrong With Democracy? and BBC Radio 4’s Rethink
@gelliottmorris.com
data-driven journalist. author of STRENGTH IN NUMBERS, the book: bit.ly/3OWqEqR and the Substack: www.gelliottmorris.com/welcome. formerly ABC News/538 & The Economist. proud custodian of a small community garden plot.
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
@matthewholehouse.bsky.social
British political correspondent at The Economist. Comment journalist of the year, British Journalism Awards 2023.
@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/
@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
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social
Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist specializing in US constitutional law and development, US migration(s) and citizenship law and policy history. Often mistaken for a historian. Home cook, wine drinker, foodie.
@whoresofyore.bsky.social
Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
@jonworth.eu
EU politics and sustainable transport, especially railways. Brit who became German and lives in a village in France. When he's not escaping it on a train or a folding bicycle. Teaches at College of Europe, still writes a blog, photographs with a drone.
@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
@jwfurlong.bsky.social
Research Fellow: Active Travel Academy, Westminster Uni Author: The Changing Electoral Map of England & Wales Past: Targeting & Analysis Manager, Labour Party Likes: urbanism, geography, politics Lives: Calderdale Director: pod-caldervalley.co.uk