James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. UK regional journalist of the year 2025. 4 x Specialist Regional Journalist of the Year winner. Orwell Prize and Paul Foot nominee. Proud dad who loves overpriced craft ale.
TPXimpact | B Corp™ @tpximpact.com Supporting organisations to build a better future for people, places and the planet. 
Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social Research Director at cross-party think tank @smfthinktank.bsky.social, prev @suttontrust.bsky.social. Expert on educational inequality/social mobility.
Trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social. MH campaigner in memory of mum. Views own. linktr.ee/beckymontacute
Local Government Association (LGA) @local.gov.uk We are the national voice of local government, working with councils to support, promote and improve #LocalGov
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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social MP for Birmingham Yardley
Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social On a mission to save street dogs around the world. You can support here... https://www.happydoggo.com/donate
Janet Daby MP @janetdaby.bsky.social Labour and Co-op Party MP for Lewisham East.
APPG on Kinship Care @appgkinshipcare.bsky.social All Party Parliamentary Group on Kinship Care.
Secretariat: @familyrightsgp.bsky.social. Contact: jhall@frg.org.uk.
Not an official feed of Parliament.
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Amy Gandon @amygandon.bsky.social Big fan of big ideas about big issues. Mostly public services, civil service and civic governance.
Ex-Cabinet Office, DHSC and RSA. Now freelance.
Prof. Michelle Lefevre @michellelefevre.bsky.social #socialwork academic researching #innovation, relationship-based practice, adolescent #safeguarding, #kindness, #socialcare. I lead @theinnovateproject.bsky.social -but gardening is my greatest love 🌈 https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p28733-michelle-lefevre
Jason Okundaye @jaseokundaye.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian and assistant opinion editor
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social Your Party MP for Coventry South 🌹
coventrysouth@parliament.uk
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
Jim McMahon MP @jimmcmahon.co.uk Labour & Co-operative MP for Oldham West, Chadderton & Royton | Chair of @CoopParty.bsky.social | UK Government Minister @mhclg
Centre for Economic Performance @cep-lse.bsky.social Welcome to the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE. News, events and analysis from a world-leading economics and policy research institute.
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New Local @wearenewlocal.bsky.social We're an independent think tank and network of councils with a mission to transform public services and unlock community power.
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@jacktshaw.bsky.social @jacktshaw.bsky.social Director of Groundwork Research and Policy Fellow, The Productivity Institute. 'Veteran local government advisor'.
Read my Notes on Local Government Substack: https://substack.com/@notesonlocalgovernment
Nick Kimber @nick80.bsky.social Director of Public Service Reform at Cabinet Office. Seconded from Camden Council. Was a Policy Fellow at IIPP @ UCL; Policy Associate at Future Governance Forum
Family Rights Group @familyrightsgp.bsky.social Helping Families, Helping Children. We work to improve the child welfare system to ensure more children can live safely in their families and children in care have loving relationships to turn to throughout life. Find us online at www.frg.org.uk
Donald Forrester @donaldforrester.bsky.social Social work academic- Director of CASCADE at Cardiff University, Research Director of Better Childhoods Centre, University College Copenhagen
Research what works and why in child welfare- particularly interested in direct practice and new methods
Research in Practice @researchip.bsky.social We support professionals with their learning to enable people to live good lives.
Part of the @ncb.org.uk family.
https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/
Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
Joe Hanley @joehanley.bsky.social Lecturer in social work at The Open University.
https://research.open.ac.uk/people/jh35572
British Association of Social Workers @basw-uk.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the British Association of Social Workers. We are the UK's largest professional association for social work.
Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social Doing relational things for London Borough of Camden. Social work doctoral researcher, Universiy of Northampton. Alumni, UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre. Views my own, said with love
Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social An anti-poverty charity and community of food banks working to end hunger together 💚
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Katie Schmuecker @katieschmuecker.bsky.social Principal Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - UK poverty, social policy, politics, research and data. Occasionally crochet, gigs and nature
Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social Head of Policy, Campaigns & Public Affairs at Mind | NHS Mental Health Social Worker | Previously at NEF & DWP | Views expressed here my own
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Jessica Studdert @jesstud.bsky.social Always searching for good coffee.
Article 39 children's rights charity @article39.bsky.social We fight for children's rights in institutional settings. Executive Director - Jodie Wickers.
Brought as much as we could when we left the other platform. More on our website: https://article39.org.uk
Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social Social work, child protection, research into practice, fatherhood, ethnography, gender-based violence. Liver transplant recipient 2004 and 2023 and advocate for organ donation - https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/social-policy/ferguson-harry
Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social Social worker. Lecturer. Resource review editor: Practice - Social Work in Action. Co-editor: The Future of Children’s Care - Critical Perspectives on Children’s Services Reform. And then…
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm.bsky.social Channel 4 News, Unreported World, Ways to Change the World, The Fourcast, Class of 2023 on Strictly
Also Chairman of Duchenne UK
Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
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Chatting on Oh God What Now |
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social Championing social mobility through evidence-based programmes, agenda-setting research and policy advocacy: https://linktr.ee/thesuttontrust
Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by @redandinexpert.bsky.social
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Amy Key @amykey.bsky.social Writer - Arrangements in Blue, Isn't Forever, Luxe. My substack is So Glad I'm Me https://amykey.substack.com/
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
Beth Rigby @bethrigby.bsky.social Political Editor, Presenter and Podcaster, Sky News. RTS Political Journalist of the Year. Electoral Dysfunction podcast out every Friday 
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels
Unbelievable Britain - YouTube 🎧
BBC Newsnight 🎥 📱
And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social Labour MP for Nottingham East • Nottingham born and bred • she/her 🌹🏹🏳️🌈
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
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Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
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Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social Lead Politics Presenter, Sky News
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
Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch + Remember Me? podcast. My book "OUT NOW" is out in September. Dyslexic / Autistic.
Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social Writer, talker, author of ANYWHERE BUT HERE: Stories of the Search for Belonging in Modern Britain.
https://linktr.ee/nicolakellywrites
Sarah Manavis @sarahmanavis.bsky.social american author of TELL ME ABOUT MYSELF (2027) on the rise and impact of psychotherapy, HarperCollins (UK) + Simon & Schuster (US). writer at the Observer + elsewhere
sarahmanavis.com / she/her
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Patricia Pino @patriciapino.bsky.social CEng, MSc Econ & Finance, PhD candidate IIPP_UCL. Co-host of The MMT Podcast. Founder of MMTUK Policy Research Group
Substack steadystate.patriciapino.com
Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, trade unionist and socialist
https://inews.co.uk/author/andrew-fisher
Kwajo Tweneboa @kwajo.bsky.social The landlords’ Landlord - Tearing the singlets of Housing Providers across the U.K. and more 🇬🇧🧏🏽♂️ Email: Kwajohousing@gmail.com
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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social Policy and analysis correspondent, BBC Verify.
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