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Matt Yeo @mattjyeo.bsky.social Labour Cllr, Reading Borough Council. Lead Cllr for Housing Used to be an Elections manager. PhD in Sports Economics from Univ of Reading.
Martin Bagot @martinbagot.bsky.social Daily Mirror Health and Science Editor. Hoping one day the NHS will be put back on its feet. Loves a campaign. Stoke City fan
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becca @boodleoops.bsky.social Underneath that dress, her heart was really made of stone
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Jonny Marshall @jonnymarshall.bsky.social Principal Economist at the Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org working on energy and climate policy
Adam Hug @adamhug.bsky.social Councillor for Westbourne Ward, Westminster City Council. Former Council Leader and former Executive Director of the Foreign Policy Centre.
Joel Suss @joelsuss.ft.com Data journalist, Financial Times | Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics
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Gavin Chait; @gavin.whyqd.com I am a data scientist, researcher, engineer, sometime-traveler, and African SFF author.
I am fascinated by the frontiers of human progress: innovation vs ignorance; wealth vs poverty, migration vs stasis.
I also drink a great deal of coffee.
Joe Moore @joe-moore.bsky.social Spent too much time thinking about the Labour Party, now explain it to people at Hanbury Strategy. Former Angela Rayner adviser. All views, alas, are my own.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social She/her. Human rights lawyer (national security, warfare); humanitarian law, civilian protection, and the occasional rant about Belfast. BPLS board member. Legal Director @propertyofthepeople.org ๐ฎ๐ช / ๐ฉ๐ฟ๐Belfast / Paris / NYC
Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social Labour MP for South Norfolk. If you are a constituent please email ben.goldsborough.mp@parliament.uk for casework enquiries. www.bengoldsborough.co.uk
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Ben Combe @benjcombe.bsky.social Worldโs OKest political staffer. Office Manager for Kevin McKenna MP. Campaigns Officer for the Jewish Labour Movement. He/him. Teller of bad jokes, player of bad games, reader of bad books. All opinions are mine, except the bad ones.
Helen Warrell @helenwarrell.bsky.social FT investigations. Previously defence & security editor, political and home affairs correspondent. Get in touch: helen.warrell@ft.com
Oliver Lewis @droliverlewis.bsky.social Health and human rights barrister at @DoughtyStPublic. https://linktr.ee/droliverlewis. Views my own
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social Twirling, twirling towards freedom
Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social Managing editor at Transformer. Ex-tech editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, also previously Guardian and New Statesman. Sometime media columnist. Signal: jasperjackson.01 https://www.transformernews.ai/
Rachel @dorsetrachel.bsky.social Amazon. Livid since 2016. ๐๐ค๐
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Sarah Waite @sarahjwaite.bsky.social Former teacher & Labour education adviser, now CEO of @getfurther.bsky.social #loveourcolleges
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com Editor of FT Alphaville, co-host of The Story of Money and author of Trillions and A Fabulous Debt. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
Paul Hindley ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฌ๐ง๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ณ @paulhindley2210.bsky.social Social Liberal ๐ Centre-Left โฌ
๏ธ Gay ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Disabled โฟ๏ธ Lancastrian ๐น European ๐ช๐บ Internationalist ๐บ๐ณ Politics PhD Researcher ๐ He/Him.
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.
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Kwajo Tweneboa @kwajo.bsky.social The landlordsโ Landlord - Tearing the singlets of Housing Providers across the U.K. and more ๐ฌ๐ง๐ง๐ฝโโ๏ธ Email: Kwajohousing@gmail.com
David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social Trade wonk, Brexit bore, globalisation defender, music lover, cricketer, gardener, supporter of mediocre football teams, who knows where the time goes?
Ben Ramanauskas @benramanauskas.bsky.social Economist. Dreamweaver. Coconut Water Enjoyer. Very bad at BlueSky.
Lapsed academic (Oxford: Blavatnik School of Government & Said Business School). Erstwhile adviser to the UK government (Trade, HMT, DHSC).
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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
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Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, LSE - http://aaronreeves.org/ - New Book: Born to Rule: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674257719
Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social Reporter and author. Writing on policy for The New Statesman. Commissioning editor for Hyphen. Senior Fellow John Schofield Trust. Swimmer with locs
DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social Dr Megan Dixon: (retired) teacher, leader and researcher. PhD, Psychology. All things education and research - literacy, English, research into practice, curriculum, SEND.
MTNBC Stage4. Still here.
https://meganjanedixon.co.uk/2026/01/02/pivoting/
@danmanville.bsky.social @danmanville.bsky.social Accused of being a lawyer, guilty of a social conscience. Lefty, a bit anarchic, generally proud of it. Cooks a decent curry. Purveyor of Punjabi epithet.
Hughster @hughster.bsky.social Keyboard warrior with an opinion on everything (and a presence on far too many social media platforms). ๐ฌ๐ง
Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social Jew, Cricket, Coeliac
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Ellie Harris @eleanorrrlouise.bsky.social Education wonk & Midwest emo fan; Head of Children and Young People at IPPR
Jon Holmes @jonholmes.bsky.social Fiddling on this place while the other place burns.
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Jen Hicken @greatnorthmum.bsky.social World-class procrastinator. SEND parent and advocate. PhD researcher: lived experiences of neurodivergent university students. Knowledge Mobiliser. NHS by day. GMBPsS.
Becky Taylor @drbeckyt.bsky.social Emergency Medicine Consultant, Cumbria
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Yiannis @yiannisbab.bsky.social Campaigns on nature, climate finance and human rights.
Writing on European politics and the far right.
Insights, reporting and the occasional opinion.
Greek bearing GIFs.
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James Taylor @jamestaylor2.bsky.social Exec Director of Strategy & Comms @ disability charity Scope. UK 
Debbie Abrahams MP @debbieabrahamsmp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Oldham East and Saddleworth. Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee.
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Donald Hirsch @donaldhirsch.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Social Policy
Loughborough University
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social finance, energy, climate, geopolitics, industrial policy
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Jabed Ahmed @jabedahmed.bsky.social News Reporter, Tes Magazine
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Renata Watts @renatawatts.bsky.social Still fighting the good fight to improve services for disabled children. Co-Director of Special Needs Jungle.
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Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social ๐๏ธ Comms and journalism, scribble-bibble mostly in the West Mids ๐ญ๐พ, often in London ๐โโ๏ธ. Grassroots politics, society, culture, media, history, walking, SMEs & social enterprise, global UK, cheap eats from Kingswinford-Kings Cross ๐ชข๐
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Stuart Rowntree @primarythink.bsky.social Primary Assistant Headteacher.
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Entitlement first. Evidence-informed, people-centred and capacity-aware.
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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social Private Eye hack and Page 94 podcaster. Author of the ๐ณ๏ธโ๐Tommy Wildeblood thriller series , and ghost stories: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034N6PK4
Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social Dictators are a cowardly and superstitious lot. | Head of Combating Kleptocracy Program at Human Rights Foundation | Author of AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY and FOREIGN AGENTS | Posts in personal capacity
Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu Social data scientist with too many questions | Assistant Professor at Leiden University | PhD from @EUI
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Substack: The Definite Article
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David Leigh @davidleighx.bsky.social Journalist.
Author of "Investigative Journalism: a survival guide" ( Palgrave) http://bit.ly/2lLQhSy.
Was Guardian Investigations Editor; ex-IMPRESS.
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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com I help people use data to reduce crime. Associate Professor, Crime Science, UCL. Former police officer.
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Sarah Hadfield @drsarahhadfield.bsky.social Policy Researcher at Citizens Advice.
Annie Irvine @annieirvine.bsky.social Qualitative social researcher since 2002 | Mental health, employment, welfare reform | Learning the ropes as a lecturer since 2024โฆ
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.
Niamh Redgate @niamhredgate.bsky.social Welfare Policy Researcher at Citizens Advice
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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social Teacher, parent, school governor.
Occasional blogger. Highland Games Athlete.
Director of the Knowledge Hub.
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Gillian Doherty @gilliandoherty.bsky.social Writer/editor/researcher, disability rights campaigner. Views all my own.
Katherine Denkinson @kdenkwrites.com UK-based Investigative Journalist & OSINT bod.
Author of Incel:The Weaponisation of Misogyny (out now with Aurora Metro Books)
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