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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
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Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social Proud Milton Keynesian and Labour MP for MK North. Can't spell, views my own.
Richard Danbury @richarddanbury.bsky.social Teach investigative journalism at City Uni. Incoming Director of the Wolfson Press Fellowship at Cambridge. Own views.
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Anna Isaac @annaisaac.bsky.social City Editor, The Guardian - aka poking about in the money/power mix
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com Corporate Finance Editor at the Financial Times.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
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Also #MDANT
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Shanti Das @shantidas.bsky.social Senior investigations reporter, The Times. Previously: The Observer / The Sunday Times. Orwell prize for exposing Britain’s social evils 2023
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, HEC Paris & College of Europe, Bruges
Democracy Fellow, Harvard University & Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies Minda de Gunzburg at Harvard University
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Garry Crawford @cultsociologist.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Salford. FAcSS, PFHEA.
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Alex O’Connell @alexoco.bsky.social Head of news and opinion, The Observer
Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social Millionaires fighting inequality. To move money from the rich & create political economies where wealth does not mean power. UK sister of Patriotic Millionaires
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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.
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Rick Muir @rickmuirbskysocial.bsky.social Policing Advisor at the UK Home Office. Previously Director of the Police Foundation and Associate Director at IPPR. Dad. From Teesside #UTB.
Joe Morris MP @joemorrismp.bsky.social Labour MP for the Hexham constituency
Peter Chappell @petebogs.bsky.social reporter at the times, author of WHAT IS REFORM WINS out April 2026 with Bloomsbury
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David Shipley @shipleywrites.bsky.social Did corporate finance, produced a film, committed a fraud. Served my time. Horrified by the prison system. I write and talk and try to change it.
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
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Jonathan Duffy @sixjbd.bsky.social Barrister
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Liverpool
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The Baton and The Cross is now in paperback https://www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/the-baton-and-the-cross-3/
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