Owen Jackson @owenjackson.bsky.social Policy 📑 | Science 💉 | Sport 🏈🏏🏉
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Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social Lecturer in Defence Studies at the UK Defence Academy, King’s College, London. Writes on industrial strategy, British politics, and the history of technology.
National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social Last November top UK experts briefed leaders on the latest science to galvanise genuine emergency action on the climate & nature. The film version of this landmark event launched 7.04.26.
Find a screening near you
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social Bourgeois interests, proletarian instincts.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
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📬 https://disconnect.blog
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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com Education policy analyst. Host of 'Inside Your Ed' podcast (www.insideyoured.com). Former teacher, think tank director and government advisor. Follow my work here: https://linktr.ee/tomrichmond
ai@cam @ai.cam.ac.uk ai@cam is Cambridge University's flagship mission to develop AI for the benefit of science, citizens, and society.
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Prof Robert Barrington @csc-barrington.bsky.social Professor at Centre for the Study of Corruption; ex UK head of TI; UK govt adviser. BVI News: ‘Who is this punk Barrington?’ ‘Thug in a suit.’ ‘Needs to stfu.’ 
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
http://common-wealth.org
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social Wonkhe (SUs). HE policy. Pop. Pro EU(rovision). Windmills not walls. Giggling incredulity. “Wasteful and inefficient for our economy”. Dreams of visiting Moldova.
Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social Nuffield College, Oxford
Director, Nuffield Politics Research Centre
President, British Polling Council
Election Analyst, ITV News
Voting, surveys, explanation, singing …
Stephen Evans @stephenevans.bsky.social Chief Executive, Learning and Work Institute.
Ex HMT, SMF and London government.
Learning, skills, labour markets & public policy.
Views my own.
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social Prof. of technology & development at IIPP-UCL, SPRU & TalTech. Author 'Technological Revolutions & Financial Capital'. Also in Anthemis UK on role of State
Prosper UK @prosperuk.bsky.social A new political movement focused on growth, opportunity, and listening to people and business.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Make UK @makeuk.bsky.social Make UK is the voice of UK manufacturing. We help businesses thrive, connect, and shape the industry of tomorrow. https://www.makeuk.org/
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social 📖🎙️📺 New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate 🌎 Hosted by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
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Prof David Bailey @dgbailey.bsky.social #industrialstrategy Birmingham Business School, UK in a Changing Europe Senior Fellow, Contemporary Social Science Editor in Chief, Editor Regional Studies, ‘activist academic’ (Gove’s 🪓man Max Caller), media commentator, Likes EVs. Baggies fan.
Simon Edmonds @sjsedmonds.bsky.social Full time carer. Retired ex Govt, Innovation, R&D, Industrial Policy, views all mine. Live in Dorset, happy place is Lohr am Main, Lower Franconia, rejoin EU. Bake sourdough. Walk a lot. Drink nice coffee. Garden a bit. Rescues plants. Grows veg.
Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social Author. The Wolf That Chews Rocks (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-That-Chews-Rocks-ebook/dp/B0HF8SR6JR?ref_=ast_author_mpb), the Erin Callahan thrillers, and some politics nonsense. Wulferhampton interloper. Twat.
https://russelljonesauthor.com/
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social Pen name of Andrew Scott.
Fake History, Fake Heroes and Notorious.
Represented by Pew Literary
Links:
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Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social "Former energy czar" - the Guardian. "Energy big brain" - Politico.
William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social Research, technology and politics.
Newsletter https://bit.ly/3AELZDu
Foundations of AI https://bit.ly/3WiYJab
Law https://bit.ly/40YL1fU
Seb Schmoller @schmoller.net Wrote/ran TUC courses for union reps. Led Sheffield College's ed tech. Led ALT. Did techish consulting. Chaired Sheffield College's Board. Now finishing a maths degree, walking a Border Collie and awaiting open heart surgery. Politics, outdoors, Sheffield.
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social Professor of Strategy at SPRU - the Science Policy Research Unit
Teaches SPRU 1.01
Research Policy.
HSP.
Views mine, not my employer.
Politics unfashionable since 1654
Ben Johnson @ersatzben.com Co-Director, Science Works. Professor at University of Strathclyde. Former UK govt adviser on science and tech policy. Personal views.
Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social Host @CleaningUpPod. CEO Liebreich Associates. Managing Partner Ecopragma Capital. Founder, Contributor @BloombergNEF. Ex Board TfL, Board of Trade. Olympian. Don't message me - I'm not prepared to give away personal data to prove my age. Srsly BlueSky!
Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social Professor of Machine Learning, University of Cambridge, academic lead of ai@cam, Accelerate Science, author of The Atomic Human, proceedings editor for PMLR.
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research @mioir.bsky.social A world-leading centre of excellence in the study of science, technology and innovation policy and management. 🔗 https://www.mioir.manchester.ac.uk/
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.
Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social historian of modern science and technology 
Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social Materials scientist & engineer; Director of the UCL Institute of Making; Author of New York Times best selling book Stuff Matters and others; Occasional BBC TV/radio presenter.
Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social Home of the higher education debate
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Kieron Flanagan @kieronflanagan.bsky.social Prof of Science & Tech Policy @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @mioir.bsky.social. Views own, RTs not. 🐝🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺
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/
Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social ‘Notes on Now’ every month in Byline Times, Co-founder openDemocracy Led Charter 88 from 1988-2005. Iron Britannia; The Lure of Greatness; Taking Control! Etc Online articles in Authory.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social Hello lovelies. This is my official account.. 💙💙
Glad to be over here from the "other place"😂
It's like breathing clean air again 👍🏼
Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social European political economy and geoeconomics commentator. Publisher of the Wealth of Nations newsletter. Previously chief Europe commentator @WSJ, chief leader writer @TheTimes. Runner, cold water swimmer, aspiring chef.
https://nixons.substack.com/
Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social Chair of European Movement UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Founder of the Bylines Network.
Founder of Scientists for EU.
Lover of science, Europe and humanity. 🙌
Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social Co founder @Byline.com and @BylineTimes.bsky.social. “Destructive British media” according to the Kremlin. Six nominations for sanctions from their Mofo MFA! An Oscar record
Tim Shipman @shippersunbound.bsky.social Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social Brighton-dwelling World Trade Editor at the Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/peter-foster
Sometime Brexit nerd & author of 'What Went Wrong with Brexit' https://t.co/VsIipD7JBr
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Neil Lee @neillee.bsky.social Professor of Economic Geography, LSE
Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social @FinancialTimes.com science editor. Ex-Nigeria, UAE, Thailand, Belgium & Japan. Latest book: What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except the British) - https://linktr.ee/whateveryoneknowsaboutbritain. Author of The Fabulists and A Swamp Full of Dollars.
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class and Coal Country. Should be running or writing.
Michael Kenny @michaelkenny.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy, Inaugural Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge, Author
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Chi Onwurah @chionwurah.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West. Chair of the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk Same as @thomasforth on X. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
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
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk Editor of Bearly Politics. Commentator. Former NHS strategist.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Austin Consultants @austinconsultants.bsky.social Industrial systems integrator serving high-value manufacturers. We provide engineering design, development & data science. Experts in data acquisition, signal processing, control, and automated test solutions. https://austinconsultants.com/ #EV #ATE #Ind5 
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social Common culture and community. Believer in manufacturing & interested in productivity. Trade should be balanced & energy should be renewable.
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite. Expect herons.
Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism, 'Contractor'.
Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social I’m not always having a go at wrong’uns…sometimes I’m sleeping | Political Commentator & Co-Host of The Trawl Podcast https://linktr.ee/thetrawlpodcast | @TimesRadio | @jeremyvineon5
The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social Official account for Britain’s leading independent economic research institute. https://ifs.org.uk/
Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor.
writesbright.substack.com
Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social Welcome to my shiny new echo chamber… hoping here that I can keep it clean and tidy and ‘woke’.
IRL - lawyer (of the lefty, campaigning variety).
Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social Emeritus Prof of Organization Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, ex-Prof Warwick & Cambridge. FAcSS, FRHistS. Now mainly Brexit analysis including Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Author Brexit Unfolded (Biteback, 2021, 2023).
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
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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?- D David Edgerton @davidedgerton.bsky.social Historian, at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London @kingschostm.bsky.social
https://www.davidedgerton.org/
Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), University of Cambridge @ifmcambridge.bsky.social Manufacturing a better world at the University of Cambridge
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Tim Minshall @timminshall.bsky.social Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation, Head of the Institute for Manufacturing and Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Author of ‘Your Life is Manufactured’ https://timminshall.com
#engineering #manufacturing #innovation
David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social Former economist and civil servant. Former (age related) national cycling champion. Still a music fan. Sewn up member of the Zipper Club.
Tim Green @otherprofgreen.bsky.social Professor of Electrical Power Engineering at Imperial College researching control of zero-carbon grids.
Known to get distracted by old trains and industrial heritage.
Drivel that follows comprised entirely of personal views.
He/Him
Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy, University of Manchester. Science & innovation policy, regional economic growth, polymer physics.
www.softmachines.org
Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social Retired professor of physics and former Master of Churchill College Cambridge. Interested in science policy, skills, education and EDI issues; author of Not Just for the Boys; blogging at https://occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald/
Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy at University of Manchester. Soon to be Birmingham.
James Watson CEng, FIET @engineerlondon.bsky.social Engineer. Historian. Beer-Drinker. Publican's Friend. Hi-Fi Anorak. Technocrat. Patriot. Improving Husband. Feminist. “The Attenborough of the Relay Room”
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