Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at
MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
(was @earthbound_films on twitter)
Makes films, designs stuff, reads scifi, paddles kayaks. Dangerously woke chronic pain/CIDP pt. who lives in Galway.
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I’m that guy that looks just like this that did that tweet that made you laugh that one time. UK based.
FT, E17, Unhedged podcast, gardening, plazzy Scouser, 6 Music Mum.
I never give investment advice - if it looks like I am, it's a scam.
I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Mixing up a spot of bewigged law with some quality lounging,
#pvfc, awkward puns and tireless pedantry.
Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
jamesrball.com
Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Writer about law, lore, and policy.
Liberal constitutionalist. Janeite.
Birmingham/London.
#AVFC
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. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming Sept 2027…
Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on
www.nigella.com
‘The view from the column is ever distant’
Appellate lawyer at Wright, Close & Barger in Houston, with a Fifth Circuit and TX appellate practice. So-called Dean,
#appellatetwitter. Host of The Appellate Wanderer podcast
Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner.
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.
Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at:
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander
#WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular
President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant.
kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-bu…
Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged. Guardian, Architects' Journal, whatever, STATE PENSIONER.
Book jockey
These are not the skeets you are looking for
Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
King’s Counsel. Serious about Law, but only about Law.
General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook.
Trustee of FRU
Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board
Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.
Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Berk
Senior Consultant, Linklaters. Senior Fellow, Institute for Government. Hon Senior Fellow, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. Visiting Prof, Durham Law School. Hon KC. Lay canon, Ely Cathedral
Law, constitution, government, policy. Cocktails. Music
Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and The Killing Kind (now on TV!). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
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Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian, script reader/editor. I like books.
Just an archaeologist who works at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii
I write history. Last book: LORDS OF THE DESERT; before that: A LINE IN THE SAND. Next book: THE ARENA.
More at/contact me via
https://www.historythatmatters.org
Signal - jamesbarr.62
Currently reading Gavin Maxwell / A Reed Shaken By The Wind
this is a low flying panic attack
Writer.