@darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social Paddy in London. Or a Londoner, former Paddy depending on how you see it. 
London & Southeast๐
@thesnowdreamer.bsky.social Weather shenanigans et al https://patreon.com/TheSnowDreamer?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
State of the Future @sotf.org.uk A new think tank for public servants & others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services & better outcomes for people. Established by @gavinfreeguard.com. Associate: @aliceolilly.bsky.social
sotf.org.uk
Tim Hayward @timhayward.bsky.social Hack. Mainly food.
https://linktr.ee/tim.m.hayward
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social famous Welsh poet in English language 1913-2000
โโฆcatching this / one truth by surprise / that there is everything to look forward toโฆโ
#RSThomas #poetry #barddoniaeth
๐ yng Nghymru, wrth gwrs
facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
Not a Machine, nor Bot nor AI
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Andy Hollingsworth @andyhollers.bsky.social English Devolution stuff at GMCA. Former stints in the Civil Service, Nudge Unit, Solace, and Suffolk County Council.
Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com New book out now! A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE END OF THE F*CKING WORLD โ https://linktr.ee/endofthefckingworld Previous books: Humans; Truth; Conspiracy. Formerly BuzzFeed & Full Fact.
@annasophiegross.bsky.social @annasophiegross.bsky.social 
End Of The Road @endoftheroadfestival.com Bands - Booze - Peacocks
'Engagingly eclectic weekender never fails to surprise'
The Guardian *****
3-6 Sept 2026 | Larmer Tree Gardens, nr Blandford Forum, Dorset
https://endoftheroadfestival.com/
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
Pablo Picasso @pablopicasso.bsky.social Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a 20th (1881-1973) century Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist. #artbots by
@nuwaves_future , @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
linktr.ee/picasso_artbot 
Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social Policy Editor at the Guardian. Previously with the FT in London, Delhi, Washington.
Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social Associate Director at Flint Global. Macro, financial services, digital assets. Views my own. Ex-BoE, Treasury. Big on sports, rugby referee, go Raiders. Bi and autistic.
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author of Why Politicians Lie About Trade | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
๐บ๐ฆ Born. ๐ฆ๐บ Raised. ๐จ๐ญ Based.
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Consultancy network: auroramacro.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
Alex Walker @alwalker.bsky.social Senior Researcher @re-state.bsky.social
Interests include devolution, governance, democracy, trust
Ellsworth Kelly @ekelly.bsky.social Fan account of Ellsworth Kelly, an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker.
1923-2015
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Ian Moss @ian.allenmoss.co.uk Politics, policy, music and blah.
https://www.thestory-network.com/ ,ex Senior Civil Servant, ex Labour Advisor
From Stoke on Trent to the Sussex countryside.
Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social Features journalist. Book: 'Something: The Women Who Made the Beatles' - May 2027.
https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
Dan Mead @danmead.bsky.social Economist at ThinkLabour
Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social "an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social Chief economist @ Centre for European Reform. Eurozone macroeconomic policies | Role of ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ณ๐ฑ in EU. Formerly @ECB, @IMF, @Worldbank.
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social ๐น Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley
๐ Member of the Treasury Select Committee
โ๏ธ Please email if you'd like a reply: yuan.yang.mp@parliament.uk
Melinda Farrell @melindafarrell.bsky.social Freelance presenter/journalist/commentator/writer. ๐
The Cricketer @thecricketer.com 
Jarrod Kimber @jarrodkimber.bsky.social Goodareas.co
George Dobell @georgedobell.bsky.social Senior correspondent at The Cricketer.
Previously senior correspondent at ESPNcricinfo.
Ben Jones @benjonescricket.bsky.social 
Andrew Samson @awsstats.bsky.social Cricket statistician
http://andrewsamson.substack.com
Alison Mitchell @alison-mitchell.bsky.social Journalist & Broadcaster.
Insta/TikTok: Alison_Mitchell00
Matt Roller @mattrollercricket.bsky.social Sports journalist at ESPNcricinfo
Andrew Miller @millercricket.bsky.social UK editor of ESPNcricinfo. Crap twitcher
Andy Zaltzman @zaltzcricket.bsky.social Comedian, Cricket Statistician, Podcaster. Host of The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz. Taskmaster champion. Test Match Special statsmonger. Live shows: andyzaltzman.co.uk
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesnโt accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar.bsky.social Transport specialist. Writer and broadcaster. Author of 20 books on railways & transport. Host Calling All Stations, transport podcast. Parkrunner, QPR, cyclist, driverless car sceptic. christianwolmar.co.uk My substack https://transportnews.substack.com/
Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com FT Magazine Food and Drink editor 
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social millmedia.bsky.social editor/founder. Interested in #localjournalism and low-stakes media drama.
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
Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
Ed Bithell @edbithell.bsky.social Strategy and sovereign partnerships at Fractile
Also writing on trade, tech and industrial policy
Former UK civil servant and diplomat, ๅฅฝ็ฐๅฒ่
, he/him
(usual caveats)
Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com writes/codes/talks about things no-one else would bother to. e dot jefferson at gmail. he/him. was @edjeff.
internet weblog: https://edjefferson.com/blog
Daniel Gover @danielgover.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in British Politics, Queen Mary University of London. Researching parliaments and UK politics.
London, UK | https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/goverdaniel.html
Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social Professor of Democratic Politics and Director of the UCL Constitution Unit. Researching democratic reform in the UK and around the world. Views my own.
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Tom Arnold @tjarnold.bsky.social Manchester-based policy wonk working on devolution, housing and planning.
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
Adam Drummond @adamdrummond.bsky.social Head of Quant Research at Public First. Professional collector of other people's opinions
Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social Occasional editor and writer. Purveyor of half-baked opinions. Intermittently able to make my nieces laugh. (SnoozeInBrief on Twitter)
My blog on usage, editing and suchlike: https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com
Yunze Wang @yz18.bsky.social Analyst at Centre for Cities. Industrial policy, economic growth and cool stats.
Views my own.
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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com Wealth editor, Financial Times. I like swimming, classical music and cryptic crosswords. Working on a memoir about my earlier life at a magazine for the very rich. he/him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ josh.spero@ft.com
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐บ๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com Senior Markets Correspondent at the Financial Times. Previously insurance, finance, stocks, pensions, you get the idea. This is my real account: I never promote crypto or any other investment
Stories: https://www.ft.com/ian-smith
Contact: ian.smith@ft.com
Sonny Loughranโข๏ธ @sonny101.bsky.social I write about Britain for The Economist
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Simon Jeffrey @simonjeffrey.bsky.social Personal opinions about transport and devolution policy.
Andrew Greenway @andrewgreenway.bsky.social Founder, Public Digital. Co-author of Bluffocracy. Still Countdown's most rubbish champion.
Joseph Elliott @jelliott94.bsky.social Lead analyst at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social
Posting about politics, poverty, housing, benefits and work.
Northern Irish, views my own.
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social Bourgeois interests, proletarian instincts.
Alexander Davenport @alexanderdavenport.bsky.social Postdoc at the Czech Academy of Sciences, PhD from EUI. Studying voter behaviour, political attitudes etc. My book, 'The Unfulfilled Electoral Potential of West European Liberal Parties', is out now with OUP.
https://www.alexanderdavenport.eu/
ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social Independent military history author and researcher. If you find my writings interesting or useful, any tips are appreciated: http://ko-fi.com/chrisowiki 
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
Alex Kealy @alexkealy.bsky.social Stand-up comic + writer.
Host of Gig Pigs podcast with Ivo Graham.
Linktree (insta, site, tix, podcast, mailing list): http://linktr.ee/alexkealy
Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - New Yorker)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1035903857
POWER FAILURE (Future Governance Forum)
Last on Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002styf
Callum Alexander @callumalexander.bsky.social Senior Strategic Planning Advisor | Healthcare Improvement Scotland | Public Health Masters with interest in social deprivation and health service improvement
Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social Economist, formerly a physicist. Head of UK Economic Policy & Modelling @ Cambridge Econometrics, Visiting Researcher in Innovation Systems @ Oxford Brookes, & Associate @ CityREDI. Also interested in cricket, baseball and metal. Displaced Salopian. Vmo
Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Rosh @roshmaster.bsky.social 
Heywood Quarterly @heywoodquarterly.bsky.social Sharing learnings and championing innovation across the public sector.
Read our articles for free at heywoodquarterly.com
Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social I write the newsletter, Lines To Take, bringing you one big story of the day, every day.
Sign up for free: https://www.linestotake.com/
I like human rights and French cuisine.
Wes Streeting @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social Labour MP for Ilford North. Former Secretary of State for Health & Social Care.
Maurรญcio Alencar @mauriciofca.bsky.social Politics and Economics Reporter for City AM | ๐ฌ๐ง๐ง๐ท
Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social Strategy Fellow, Global Health & Wellbeing at Coefficient Giving. Views my own
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.
johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social โLiving inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide"
Likes: Old movies, old music, old books
Dislikes: Fascism, Zionism, Centrism, Racism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, Misogyny, Monday
Maria Laura La Corte @marialaura-lacorte.bsky.social Research Assistant on the Public Services team @instituteforgovernment.org.uk
@akashpaun.bsky.social @akashpaun.bsky.social 
Bob Melling @bobmelling.bsky.social Low Salience, Huddersfield
Proverbs 7:7
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. ๐ฐ ๐ only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
Zoรซ Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social โข political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social โข โinternet shepherdโ of Bluesky โข covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ โข X: @zoenora6
๐ London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
Obadiah Mbatang @residentadviser.bsky.social 
Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social Director of Education at No More Marking, an ed tech start-up. Author of 3 books about education & 1 about football. West Ham & cricket fan.
Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://substack.nomoremarking.com
Sebastian Rees @sebrees1.bsky.social Head of Health at the IPPR
David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social NHS Acute Hosp Dr 37 y. GER/GIM. Ex DH Nat Clin Dir. Lapsed Academic. Policy Think Tanker. Ex BGS/RCP Pres/VP
Med Journalism. Byline: @BMJ_latest. Columns: health press newspapers. @mjauk
Manc-in-South. MCFC. Craic, Schlock, Sharing, Learning, Friends
Prof. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social Dad - Husband - Writer
Professor of Psychology & Medical Anthropology (Ph.D @UniofOxford). Practicing Psychotherapist (UKCP). Author of Cracked (Icon Books) & Sedated (Atlantic Books)
Jem Mills-Sheehy @jemm-s.bsky.social Make videos for @transparencyuk.bsky.social. Anti-corruption, political integrity, economic crime and other things that take my fancy. Former IfG. Views my own.
Always open to sandwich recommendations.
Another ๐ฆin London. He/him. ๐
Charlie Jones @charliepsych.bsky.social Clinical psychologist in an NHS hospital.
Relationships & humanity in healthcare.
What's going on under the surface?
Listening.
Dad.
Bristol.
@stephen-rocks.bsky.social @stephen-rocks.bsky.social 
Andrew Fenton @fentonaw.bsky.social Population Health & Inequalities with NHS SCW. Tweet on health & inequalities, cat pics, Port Meadow views. Runner & occasional triathlete.
https://www.tumblr.com/fentonaw
Jonny Kiehlmann @kiehlmann.bsky.social Climbs and read things. Used to do numbers (PhD) a bit. Scottish Politics researcher, for my sins
Underpaid subscription servant of the culture wars
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social Philosopher (emeritus prof) of language, art, and metaphysics, plus Plato and Wittgenstein. Also interested in music, visual art, photography, and walking (when fit).
Dr Thomas Shanahan MRCEM @tshanahan0584.bsky.social ED Research Registrar (PGY8) at Royal Perth Hospital | Affiliate Researcher at Monash University | Major trauma & EM research. Husband๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฎ๐ช๐ฌ๐ง views mine
Yusuf Karmali @yusufkarmali.bsky.social Concerned Citizen of the World | Doctor | Arsenal fan | medics.academy Clinical Programme Manager | NHS Clinical Entrepreneur | T1DM #GBDoc | Views are my own |