Jonathan Mitchell

English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com

Fmr. Ambassador, Consul General of Israel in NY. Chief of Staff/Foreign Policy Advisor to 2 PMs & 4 of Israel's best Foreign Ministers since 70CE. Played for The Arsenal, 1979 FA Cup Final. Writes, but not enough. Does TV, but too much. Tel Aviv, Israel

Journalist. Presenter of R4's #MoneyBox Live (Weds, 3pm). Also found on #WakeUpToMoney, #R4Today, BBC 5 Live, #GreenMoneyShow. Enthusiast. Humanist.

CEO, Civaam. Founder, EhtesabApp. Holding regimes accountable through civic technology. Afghan-Canadian. MPP/tech law @UniOfOxford. Prev. AI/ML @Apple. Alumni @Columbia. sara@civaam.com

Comics made from vintage images AKA "a collaboration with the dead" ⏪ archives now go back several years! browse!! 💻 site: wondermark.com 📖 books/merch: store.wondermark.com 🔩 card game! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/malki/bolted?ref=644zc4

Retired law professor and law reformer. Pro EU. Anti Brexit. Pro UN, pro international law and civilised international relations. Supporter of Scottish independence in Europe for pro European, internationalist, democratic, progressive and other reasons.

Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies

Informing UK policy debates on Syria. Focused on human rights and accountability. Web: https://www.syrianotes.org/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/SyriaNotes/ YouTube: http://youtube.com/@syrianotes5908

Journalist mostly covering inequalities for Guardian, Observer, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC & more. Author of Make Bosses Pay. Orwell Prize nominee. She/her. 📧 evelivingstonjournalist@gmail.com 🔗 everebeccalivingston.com 📸 eve__rebecca

The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php

Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com

Your daily slice of the best FT journalism 🔎 Explore more: www.ft.com/ftedit 📬 Sign up for our newsletter: https://on.ft.com/44K0XEi The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.

Looking out for Edinburgh's bus passengers and services. Independent of operators, Councils, Government, political parties etc. Website https://edinburghbususers.group/

Since 1946, the Institut français d'Ecosse promotes the French language & culture through a wide range of activities! Based in Edinburgh. #LearnFrenchinScotland

Living in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Contributing to Ukrainian voices online | support me : PayPal: kate.boguslavskaya@gmail.com | http://buymeacoffee.com/kateinkharkiv

Irish barrister sharing historical accounts and images of the Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland. Past posts archived at http://ruthcannon.com.

Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.

Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.

Mostly Edinburgh history, tenement life stories and the like. Current project - Tenement Town; Previous project - Small Town Noir.

We provide over 700 services to Scotland’s capital city. Follow for news and information on life in Edinburgh. If you have a service question, please contact us: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/contact

Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East

Artist sketching the beautiful city of Edinburgh. This is my sketch blog including family, art, news and events from the city.

I’m a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies. https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/

Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.

hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)

Barrister & mediator. Things I like: legal history & legal oddities; music & musical instruments; Mesopotamian history; & Portuguese wine and Port. My professional website is: http://www.giffordhead.co.uk Please email rather than DM! Forgive typos.

Run by artists, for artists. Founded in 1826, the Royal Scottish Academy supports art and architecture in Scotland.

Commercial photographer / videographer and drone pilot from Falkirk, Scotland

Husband of beloved children’s author Nancy Lynner. Author, Co - author, and Editor of 40 books in the field of Event Management including the first text book that has been continuously published for 35 years.

Professor at Centre for the Study of Corruption; ex UK head of TI; UK govt adviser. BVI News: ‘Who is this punk Barrington?’ ‘Thug in a suit.’ ‘Needs to stfu.’

Broughton's free, independent stirrer for hyperlocal news, views, history & culture in north/central Edinburgh since 1994. Monthly print issue. Online at www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk. No party-political/faith affiliations. Not-for-profit. Run by volunteers.

Law, mental health, mudlarking for CDs, literary pretensions

Political Editor of the world's longest-running national newspaper @heraldscotland.bsky.social Email tips/stories/news to andrew.learmonth@heraldandtimes.co.uk. DMs open.

Advocate (Lawyer) at the Scottish Bar. Member of Optimum Advocates. #FOI, #privacy & #DataProtection nerd. Enjoy public law. Opinions expressed are my own.

The Bluesky account of the Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory and the Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group.

Prolixity from Dr Andrew Tickell. Law & Scottish politics. Senior lecturer in law at GCU Law, Jacobin scribbler, Sunday National columnist, and jaded flâneur.

Scots academic lawyer based at the University of Strathclyde. Interested in access to: a) land; and b) justice. Don (in the fitba sense). Blogs a bit. Demi-Gael.

Columnist & broadcaster. Presenting for BBC Radio 4, news reviews for This Morning & Sky News. Highly commended/shortlisted Society of Editors' Commentator of the Year 2023 & 2024. soniasodha.com

Find out what the Vikings did when they were at home with John and Andy, two professors who are passionate about medieval Iceland's literature and history.

The Calton Hill Conservation Trust help protect & maintain our much-loved, long-neglected, Edinburgh park, with its monuments, spectacular views & nature | Please join us & volunteer with us. <https:www.caltonhilltrust.org>

Historian. Coffee drinker

All the news, opinion and analysis from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World

Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my sixth Prime Minister. Unofficial. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat

Barrister, mediator (England + Wales) https://www.5sblaw.com/our-people/barbara-rich/ law of inheritance, trusts, mental incapacity + interested in legal history, public understanding of law, crowdfunding. Londoner. https://bleakhouserevisited.substack.com

Books and Archives since 1683. Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary

Pointing out the mistakes the media make about devolution across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. your favourite policy wonks favourite policy wonk. not legal advice. For new articles tag us/ email: thatsdevolved@gmail.com

The Union Survey is a long-running, 360° survey of constitutional attitudes in each of the UK’s four component parts. Led by Profs Ailsa Henderson (@ailsahenderson.bsky.social) and Richard Wyn Jones (@richardwynjones.bsky.social).

An ESRC-funded academic study of voting in Scotland 👩🏻‍💻 https://scottishelections.ac.uk

Edinburgh Correspondent, The Herald heraldscotland.com Tell me your stories… donald.turvill@newsquest.co.uk, call 07525629592, or DM

Promoting Everyday Walking in Edinburgh. Contact us at:- edinburghgroup@livingstreets.org.uk If you’d like to sign up for our occasional email newsletter you can subscribe here: https://www.livingstreetsedinburgh.org.uk/contacts/

The Cockburn Association is a registered Scottish charity (SC011544) which works to protect and enhance the city of Edinburgh. Posts are not endorsements.

Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets

Stories that reveal and inspire, challenging expectations. Weekdays 7-8pm on Channel 4. Got a story? C4Nstories@itn.co.uk --- Substack: https://channel4news.substack.com Website: www.channel4.com/news YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Channel4News

The Old Edinburgh Club (OEC) is the city’s local history society, concerned with all aspects of the capital’s history and development.

“Well-known tweeting Barrister” Bar Council “Popular anonymous Barrister” Daily Mail “Possibly cabin crew” my neighbour

Political activists across the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Co-Head, Alliance for Two States, Middle East Director, International Communities Organisation

KC (hon). UK's most experienced full-time legal commentator. Honorary bencher, Gray's Inn. Former solicitor (non-practising). Writes at https://rozenberg.substack.com

An unofficial bot of BBC News (UK). RSS: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/uk/rss.xml code: https://gitlab.com/tmaehara/bluesky-newsbots maintainer: @tmaehara.bsky.social

Scottish football historian. Edinburgh. www.scottishsporthistory.com

Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea

Broadcaster, author, journalist, dad, grandpa, heroic Substacker to be found at davidaaronovitch.substack.com. Recovering tweeter

Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)

Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.

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

UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns. zoegardner.net

Editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk / Former EiC the Guardian/ @reutersinstitute ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.

jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com

Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.

I’m not always having a go at wrong’uns…sometimes I’m sleeping | Political Commentator & Co-Host of The Trawl Podcast https://linktr.ee/thetrawlpodcast | @TimesRadio | @jeremyvineon5

Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com

Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.

Hello lovelies. This is my official account.. 💙💙 Glad to be over here from the "other place"😂 It's like breathing clean air again 👍🏼

Co host @thenewsagents . Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .

Always ask yourself, what would Lord Diplock think? https://spinninghugo.wordpress.com/

Deputy Political Editor, Sky News Co-host Politics at Jack and Sam’s Podcast

Podcast on empires and world history 🌎 A Goalhanger production with Anita Anand and William Dalrymple

Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.

Here with my staircase nonsense

Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.

Backroom legal obsessive. Former law lecturer and government lawyer. https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlgardner/ Also books, beer, films, and a bit of politics. London and Warrington.

Barrister specialising in human rights, public law and public inquiries. Views my own https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/adam-wagner

Public law @Strathclyde Law School; adviser @CEEAC Committee of Scottish Parliament; steering group @Scottish Public Law Group; public law analysis editor @Edinburgh Law Review. https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/mccorkindalechristopherdr/

Public lawyer @admincourtblog.bsky.social

Assistant professor of international relations and international law | sometime political advisor | All views mine alone | find me on Twitter at @yuanyi_z

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

Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC: Barrister, Cross-bench Peer, Independent Prevent Commissioner; HL Constitution Cttee; Chair Inter Mediate, @uclei.bsky.social; Vis Prof KCL; AFPS; ex-indept reviewer terrorism legn; history, nature, sea kayaking, Suffolk

The UK's leading research centre on constitutional change, covering parliament, government, democracy, elections and more. Sign up to hear about our blog posts, events and publications 👉 https://mailchi.mp/ucl/constitution-unit.

Curator of the art, history and fiction of old dreams.

Survivor & campaigner | Justice reformer ⚖️ | ‘Pain can either be your prison or your platform’ | UofG world changing alumni | Speaker, writer, & analyst ✍🏽 https://www.elliewilson.net/

The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com 🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com 🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com

Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE

Political Editor, Presenter and Podcaster, Sky News. RTS Political Journalist of the Year. Electoral Dysfunction podcast out every Friday

Seeking solace in scenes of Marchmont, The Meadows, Edinburgh and occasionally beyond. Knitter.

Unofficial mirror account of https://x.com/nocontextbrits from Twitter A mordant celebration of British mediocrity according to the Washington Post. Contains sarcasm, irony and context.

Sharing tat, treasure and nonsense from two of Scotland's Oldest Charity Shops, based In Edinburgh. Posts by Neil He/Him

Underemployed flâneuse sharing info about #Edinburgh beyond the castle ie overlooked, neglected, underappreciated, everyday & mundane treasures inc - Graveyards - Guerrilla Gardens - Street Art - Indie Retail - Hidden Gems she/her