Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social Policy Editor at the Guardian. Previously with the FT in London, Delhi, Washington.
Alice Semark @alicesemark.bsky.social Researcher at Re:State - the independent, public services think tank!
Specialising in health policy, but broad subject interests. All views my own.
Social Market Foundation @smfthinktank.bsky.social Britain’s leading cross-party think tank, with a mission to enable markets and government to work together to benefit society.
https://www.smf.co.uk/ | Also on LinkedIn, X and TikTok
The Constitution Society @consoc.bsky.social The Constitution Society is a charity which promotes public understanding of the UK constitution. Founded 2009. www.consoc.org.uk
Ed Pemberton @epemberton.bsky.social Senior Policy Researcher, Citizens Advice. Currently researching health inequalities and their relationship to work, housing and debt. Recovering political economist. Views my own.
Dan Hall @danhalll.bsky.social frittering away my youth on bluesky
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Ravi Gurumurthy @raviguru.bsky.social CEO, Nesta and Behavioural Insights Team. Governor, Health Foundation.
What I do: applied research, venture building, policy. Particularly in net zero, education and health. 
ThinkLabour @thinklabour.bsky.social ThinkLabour is a new strategic force generating bold ideas for Britain | Media enquiries: press@thinklabour.co.uk
Labour Growth Group @labourgrowth.bsky.social A group of Labour MPs committed to tearing down the barriers to growth.
We give a platform to bold ideas and practical reforms to promote economic growth.
www.labourgrowth.co.uk
Lawrence McKay @lawrencemckay.bsky.social Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Reading - urban-rural divides, political trust, public opinion, UK/W Europe. Sometimes music/film/F1. Professional Simpsons reference overuser.
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.
northern maeve @maeveschaffer.bsky.social comms | journalism | podcasts
all views my own
Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social I write the newsletter, Lines To Take, bringing you one big story of the day, every day.
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I like human rights and French cuisine.
Tom Leach @tomleach.bsky.social Public policy at Nesta
Arguably @arguablymag.bsky.social The new home of progressive ideas and debate.
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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social We are the UK's national academy of academics, learned societies & practitioners in social science & the founder of the Campaign for Social Science. We exist to promote social sciences in the UK for public benefit: www.acss.org.uk
Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social Bourgeois interests, proletarian instincts.
Sebastian Rees @sebrees1.bsky.social Head of Health at the IPPR
AE Snow @demofuturist.bsky.social Democratic Futurist.
Amber Dellar @amberdellar.bsky.social Researcher, public services @instituteforgovernment.org.uk. Focusing on schools and local government, particularly children's social care and homelessness. She/her
Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social Director of Policy and Research at Centre for Cities, working on Housing, Planning, Devolution. Stuff on Ukraine + Eastern Europe and Japan + East Asia too. YIMBY. Views own etc. 🥑🇺🇦
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social Former political researcher and professional elections nerd specialising in electoral and party systems. Current day market research analyst for museums, heritage, the arts and charities around the world. UK's number one Romania-phile. Still a nerd. He/him
Beth Kitson @drbethkitson.bsky.social Research Associate, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge.
Public Policy | Economics and History | Knowledge and Engagement
Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social Ex- consultant, manager, marketer, engineer. Interested in Complexity, Systems and Collective Intelligence. GSOH (Brit)
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social Mumbai correspondent at the Economist
Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social Current affairs, politics, education and miscellany. All views my own.
Substack at edrith.co.uk 
Tom Belger @tombelger.bsky.social Political and policy journalist and communications consultant, WPI Strategy senior adviser, LabourList columnist and former editor.
Previously a reporter at the Liverpool Echo, Yahoo Finance and Schools Week.
Get in touch at tombelgerwork@gmail.com.
Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch + Remember Me? podcast. My book "OUT NOW" is out in September. Dyslexic / Autistic.
Nicole Sykes @nicolesykes.bsky.social Charities, charts, cats.
Director of Strategy, Impact and Innovation at Lloyds Bank Foundation. She/her🏳️🌈
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Tom Westgarth @tomwestgarth.bsky.social Head of Growth at AI hardware startup @Fractile-ai.bsky.social. Ex policy in Sovereign AI Unit and TBI. Bridging tech and policy worlds at TxP.
Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social Strategy Fellow, Global Health & Wellbeing at Coefficient Giving. Views my own
Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk 🗳️ Mapping UK Elections & Collating Polling Data
nowcast / posters / much more @ electionmaps.uk
support my work @ https://ko-fi.com/electionmapsuk
Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social Day job: climate change, heat pumps, energy at Nesta
Other stuff: low-fi economics on growth, cities & economic geography, general UK policy, occasional basic charts
Bristol, he/him, lots of parenting / caring.
Personal account.
James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social Chief Executive of Total Politics Group. Writer, broadcaster, media CEO. Publisher of PoliticsHome, The House magazine, Holyrood magazine, The Parliament magazine, Civil Service World, ConservativeHome and more. Columnist for the i paper. Never a dull day.
Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social Political Scientist | British Politics and History | PhD on political salaries (Exeter) | Mst. Modern British and European History (Oxford) | Teaching methods and stats in social science
Ruxandra Serban @ruxandrasrbn.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics and Qualitative Methods at Birkbeck, researching how things work in different parliaments. Co-Convener of PSA Parliaments | ruxandraserban.com
Marcus Johns @cllrmarcus.bsky.social Labour Co-op Councillor for Deansgate in Manchester City Centre 🐝 Deputy Exec Member for Housing & Regeneration 🏗️ Senior Researcher at the Fabian Society 🌹 Views all mine!
Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social 25 | ✝️ 🏳️🌈
Ben Worthy @benworthy.bsky.social 
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
David Rischel @davidrischel.bsky.social Average political philosopher
Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social I'm the programme lead for the UK energy team at E3G and an advisory board member for the Autonomy Institute. Personal account - random thoughts with a quarterly post about energy policy.
Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk Labour MP for Luton North 🌹 | Promoted by and on behalf of Sarah Owen at 3 Union Street, Luton, LU1 3AN.
Teodor Grama @teodorgrama.bsky.social learning & development @instituteforgovernment.org.uk & @ifgacademy.bsky.social, he/him
Kinship Works @kinship.works We help organisations to be more human. Kinship Works is a network supporting more human ways of improving our lives together.
Jac Larner @jaclarner.bsky.social Associate Prof in Politics at Cardiff University & Fellow Edinburgh University.
Political Psychology 🧠 & Public Opinion.
https://jaclarner.github.io/jaclarner/
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Stuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social Associate Director in the public services team
@InstituteforGov. Interested in the NHS, adult social care, and local government. All views my own. He/him
Centre for Governance and Democracy (CGD) at Queen Mary @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social This is the Bluesky Account of the Centre for Governance and Democracy (CGD) within the School of Society and Environment (SSE) at Queen Mary University. Follow us for updates, events and other news related to our research.
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social 🌹✊ 📸 | academic researcher | average photographer | all views my own etc.
Matthew Mckeague @memckeague.bsky.social CEO @archhfund.bsky.social | communities, built environment & social infrastructure | interested in all kinds of places | music and running most of the rest of the time
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, economics, books, culture, ideas, science, history, tech, data...
Become a subscriber: https://newstatesman.com/subscribe
Locality @locality.org.uk We support local community organisations to be strong and successful. #PowerOfCommunity
AKA @localitynews
locality.org.uk
Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social Professor of economic geography at the University of Cambridge. Researches austerity, labour, debt, gender & sustainable regional economies. Keen gardener.
Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social MP for Norwich South “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently” - David Graeber
Mainstream @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social The home for Labour’s radical realists - united by values, driven by change.
Join us to unlock the transformative potential of the Labour Party.
http://mainstreamlabour.org/
Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social Ex-Whitehall type still with views on public policy, but now local historian in Cambridge (UK) blogging at https://lostcambridge.com/ - also writing about the future of the city on The Cambridge Town Owl.
Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb
Andrew Grey @asgrey.bsky.social I write about ethics, politics and healthcare.
I work in healthcare education, and I'm co-host of The Right Work podcast.
Here for all of the above + cats.
https://www.clippings.me/users/andrewgrey
Alice Donald @alicedonald.bsky.social Professor, School of Law and Social Sciences, Middlesex University, working to inform public debate on human rights. Trustee of @justfairuk.bsky.social. Mancunian Lambeth dweller. Man U devotee.
Ben Cooper @bencooper1995.bsky.social Research Manager, the Fabians. Interested in education, housing, Sea Wall and rural. Union rep.
John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social 🏴 First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the SNP.
Promoted by John Swinney, 17-19 Leslie St, Blairgowrie, PH10 6AH
Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things" • dylan.difford@yougov.com
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social CEO @bestforbritain.org
Podcaster @quietriotpod.bsky.social
NED @RoSPA
Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social 🌹 Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley
📈 Member of the Treasury Select Committee
✉️ Please email if you'd like a reply: yuan.yang.mp@parliament.uk
John Lourenze Poquiz @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social Researcher at @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @uniofcam.bsky.social.
PhD @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.
Interests: Economic Measurement, Productivity, & Innovation.
Opinions & rants are my own.
RT ≠ endorsements.
Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk Public policy research, teaching and engagement, enabling the right kind of growth, fairly shared. bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
Andrew Brook @anbrook.bsky.social Senior programme manager at Power2 @power2org.bsky.social.
Doctoral researcher @mmudecentwork.bsky.social, interested in the relationship between housing and job quality.
Ex-teacher and current special school governor.
Views mine alone.
Centre for Democratic Politics @cdpleeds.bsky.social 🔬 Researching changing forms of political engagement in an unstable and unpredictable global environment
📍 University of Leeds, UK
🧑💻 https://cdp.leeds.ac.uk
The Campaign for Compulsory Voting @compulsoryvoting.bsky.social Everyone should vote.
https://compulsoryvoting.org.uk/
Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP @jeevunsandher.bsky.social 🌹 Economist MP who loves the pub
Department for Business and Trade PPS
jeevunsandher.substack.com
Shane Chowen @ukshane.bsky.social Editor at FE Week - reporting on further education, skills and apprenticeships. Story tips: shane.chowen@feweek.co.uk
James Hickson @jmchickson.bsky.social Political theorist and policy researcher at the Heseltine Institute, University of Liverpool.
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social Manchester-based policy wonk working on devolution, housing and planning.
Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social Devolution anorak, parliamentary history nerd & recovering academic. Any views expressed are not those of my employer (yada yada etc passim)
Academic work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam-Evans-11
Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social Public law @ Strathclyde Law School.
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/mccorkindalechristopherdr/
Anneliese Midgley MP @anneliesemidgleymp.bsky.social Labour MP for Knowsley. Government Chief Whip. For casework or to get in touch anneliese.midgley.mp@parliament.uk
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social 
Alfie Steer @alfiesteer.bsky.social Historian of the Labour Left. Articles and book reviews in Tribune, Jacobin, Political Insight, Contemporary British History, English Historical Review, Modern British History.
Organised 'Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On.'
Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory
Former Head of Department of Government and PVC Education
London School of Economics
Author Against Post-liberalism: Why Faith, Family and Flag is a Dead End for the Left, Polity Press 2025
Tom McTague @tommctague.bsky.social Editor in Chief of the New Statesman
Matt Davies @halcyene.bsky.social Data/AI policy @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social
(Political) philosophy of tech @lsegovernment.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social
Views my own 🔮✨
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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
www.marianamazzucato.com
Elizabeth Linos @elizabethlinos.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy & Management, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty Director, The People Lab
ElizabethLinos.com
peoplelab.hks.harvard.edu
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Changing how the state is imagined, practised, and evaluated to tackle societal challenges. Director: @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Deputy Directors: @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @eaves.ca
Alex Nurse @alexnurse.bsky.social Reader in Urban Governance and Planning at the University of Liverpool.
Researching: Cities and City-Regions, Cycling
Spelling and grammatical errors are all mine.
Likes are usually bookmarks (or it might mean I like it!)
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Dr Ian C Elliott @ianelliott.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Public Administration. co-EiC @journalpad.bsky.social.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4622-298X
#Publicadmin #leadership #localgov #academicsky #PASky #PolicySky #academic #research #Scotland. All views my own etc