Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social Lib Dem based in Oxfordshire
County Cllr for Kidlington North & Otmoor; Cabinet Member for Economy and Environment
Elected Member of Federal Policy Committee
Promoted by Oxon Lib Dems at Unit C5 Grange Court Business Park, OX14 3NB
Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social Strategic defence planning and foresight | security and defence policy | interactions between climate change, energy, security, defence | former adviser to Ukraine's military | marine environmental policy | PhD in sustainability science | Ireland/Europe
Tom King @tallgeekychap.bsky.social Social liberal unaligned political type of mixed ethnicity; international human of limited mystery.
Work: Outside In, ex-Global Counsel (left 2022 fwiw), ex-OCCRP, worked for Lib Dem MPs, etc.
I like the arts, and people. And cricket (Plastics CC).
Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social Author of Believable Lies, a story of wartime propaganda and fake news, out now from WH Allen. Discussing politics and more on Times Radio and Monocle Radio. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/452994/believable-lies-by-stiastny-terry/
Tom Walker @tomwalker.fyi Research and investigations on corruption in the UK for @transparencyuk.bsky.social. Formerly @thegeckoproject.org @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social, The Engine Room and others.
tomwalker.fyi
Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social Stories that reveal and inspire, challenging expectations.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com artist // writer // defeated crypto billionaire-funded neo-Nazis in "the free speech trial of our age" // hewillnotdivide.us (2017-2021) // the metamodernist manifesto (2011) ✨
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David Szakonyi @szakonyi.bsky.social Associate Professor at George Washington University
Co-Founder, Anti-Corruption Data Collective (@acdatacollective.bsky.social)
Researching corruption, kleptocracy and authoritarianism in Russia and the West
Rachel Blake MP @rachelblakemp.bsky.social Cities of London & Westminster MP, Labour and Co-operative. Email rachel.blake.mp@parliament.uk
Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social Journalist at the Financial Times, ex London Centric. Not the former chancellor. Email me on rachel.rees@ft.com
Rebecca McKee @rebeccamckee.bsky.social Associate Director at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk working in our Ministers team with special interest in parliament, ministerial leadership, private office and (sometimes) public inquiries.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org Editor and director, Carbon Brief
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Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://peteapps.substack.com
Adam Terry @adamterryfgf.bsky.social Executive Director @futuregovforum.bsky.social
Politics and policy geek | Bearded north London music lover | Twin father and sometime trailing spouse
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social Professor of the Political Economy of Europe at LSE. Interested in democratic representation and inequality, worried about the survival of democracy. Author of Anti-System Politics (OUP, 2020). Also random thoughts on football, cycling, the weather etc
Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory @lawatleeds.bsky.social, author of 'The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law' (Hart 2022), Open Access at
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4562656#
Alan Wager @dralanwager.bsky.social
Grant Ennis @grantennis.bsky.social Author of Dark PR: How corporate disinformation undermines our health and the Environment, 2023, Daraja Press. Read it here: http://tinyurl.com/bookdarkpr
GuyM @guym.bsky.social Ex partner in PwC Africa. The only race we belong to is the human one.
Gone to Crete.
Melissa Chemam @melissaontheroad.bsky.social *Journalist, writer & podcaster (en/fr) > Africa, West Asia, Global South + diaspora + arts
*News curator
*Worked w/ RFI, BBC WS, DW, New Arab, CBC, TV5, F24...
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Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social millmedia.bsky.social editor/founder. Interested in #localjournalism and low-stakes media drama.
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
David Leask @leaskyd.bsky.social Reporter, The Times/Sunday Times. Get me at david.leask@thetimes.co.uk.
Richard Hermer @richardhermer.bsky.social Former Attorney General for England and Wales | Before that, human rights lawyer | Always a Cardiff boy
Zeteo UK @zeteo.uk Disrupting Britain’s broken media. A new journalistic force from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @Zeteo.com.
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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social Journalist
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Substack: The Definite Article
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@democracydefendersfund.org @democracydefendersfund.org Democracy Defenders Fund is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to stopping democratic backsliding and restoring American democracy. democracydefendersfund.org
Cat Smith @catsmithmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Lancaster and Wyre.
Chair of Procedure Committee in House of Commons.
Alice McCool @mccoolingtons.bsky.social ❌ On sick leave ❌ Journalist + feminist. Investigative reporter at The Nerve. Formerly Good Law Project. Other bylines inc The Guardian, CNN, Dazed, TIME Magazine. They/them.
www.alicemccool.com
Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social Deputy Leader, Green Party of England & Wales. co-leader of Wealden District Council, Sussex. Spokesperson: Culture, Sport & Digital Inclusion. Founder of Birds Eye View int'l women's film festival. Friends of River Medway. Ashdown Forest conservator.
Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social Left wing journalist. Dad of Léa, Saoirse and Raven. Book ‘Abolish Westminster’ due out with Faber in November. Pre-order at: https://linktr.ee/abolishwestminster. Also at: www.abolishwestminster.substack.com
Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social Writer, editor, bereaved single Dad, Quaker, allotmenteer and very amateur musician.
Lover of strangers.
Craig Oliver @craigoliver100.bsky.social Global head of Strategy and Reputation at FGS. Podcast: Desperately Seeking Wisdom.
Was David Cameron’s Director of Politics and Communications - and before that Editor, BBC News at 6 and 10.
Lib Dem Peers @libdempeers.bsky.social News and updates from the Liberal Democrat team in the House of Lords.
@ollybuston.bsky.social @ollybuston.bsky.social
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
Andrew Duff @andrewduffeu.bsky.social Former Member of the European Parliament. Federalist. epc.eu cambridge-connect.uk @volteuropa.org @libdems.org.uk
Pete Sinclair @petesinclair.bsky.social Writer: Have I Got News For You; Mark Steel's In Town; Lead Balloon; Bad Move; Spitting Image; Never Mind The Buzzcocks; What The F*** Is Going On? podcast.
Political views are my own (or yours)
Naomi Fowler @naomifowler.bsky.social Podcast suprema @taxjustice.net Producer and host of the Taxcast. I direct Justicia ImPositiva, Impôts et Justice Sociale, É Da Sua Conta, الجباية ببساطة Unequal India Decoded, & The Corruption Diaries. All available here: https://podcasts.taxjustice.net/
Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com Doctoral candidate, researching what happens when the far right is in power | Radicalism/extremism & democracy, pol behaviour, "gender stuff" | Rooted in 🇦🇹🇭🇺, now in 🇺🇸 | views mine but often based on research | #firstgen Arbeiterkind gabrielagreilinger.com
Follow the Money @ftm.nl Follow the Money is een platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek met een glashelder doel: waarheidsvinding in dienst van de samenleving. https://ftm.nl
Brian Robson @brianrobson.bsky.social I want more people to live in a decent, affordable home. Don't you?
Work: Director Housing & Homelessness, @oak-foundation.bsky.social
Life: Dad, bookworm, sedate cyclist | Mackem in North Yorks | Trustee @thetcpa.bsky.social | Views mine, gan canny.
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Tamsin Shaw @professorshaw.bsky.social NYU, articles in NYRB, NYT etc, formerly Princeton Politics Department, Institute for Advanced Study, King's College Cambridge
See also @picsbymydad.bsky.social
John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk Podcaster.
I do Smersh Pod https://bsky.app/profile/smershpod.com
I co-do A Wheezing Groaning Sound.
1/3 Snake Boy
Author of Thunderbook, Explodobook and Superbook.
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Hereward Holland @hezholland.bsky.social Editor, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social History Correspondent and Diary Editor for The Times
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
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social Navy combat veteran and retired NASA astronaut. Husband to @GabbyGiffords.bsky.social. United States Senator for the great state of Arizona.
Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social lecturer in law, KCL
researching UK executive power, national security, political economy and human rights
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/daniella-lock
Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social Lefty liberal by temperament, exasperated by experience.
Not strictly qualified for most arguments, but I do read a lot.
Stockport, UK
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social Investigative journalist @tbij.bsky.social. garethdavies@tbij.com. Supporter of local journalism and Tottenham Hotspur. Runner. PC & board gamer
Jake Atkinson @jakeatkinson.bsky.social I campaign against inequality, mainly in health & wealth. Love human rights, access to medicines, & fair tax. Hate billionaires.
Campaigns @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social also with @ukstoptrump.bsky.social
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Chris Bell @chrisbell1.bsky.social Journalist. Investigations at BBC News.
@pollytoynbee.bsky.social @pollytoynbee.bsky.social
Rose Zussman @rose-zussman.bsky.social Anticorruption @TransparencyUK.BSky.social. Views mine
Prosper UK @prosperuk.bsky.social A new political movement focused on growth, opportunity, and listening to people and business.
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GreenPartyHan @greenpartyhan.bsky.social Green MP for Gorton and Denton
Plumber, runner, multiple greyhounds 🏃🏼♀️🔧🐾
Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social North of England editor, the Guardian. Dad. Paul Foot Award winner 2025.
Millicent @missmillicent.bsky.social Londoner working in politics & democratic participation. Special interests in PR, political education, diversity, inclusion & equality. Also speaks 🇳🇴, 🇩🇪 & 🇫🇷. Learning 🇺🇦.
Feminist and 🏳️⚧️ ally. She/Her.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social I write the newsletter, Lines To Take, bringing you one big story of the day, every day.
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I like human rights and French cuisine.
Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org Civic entrepreneur building broadsheet social media at kronkite.social. Lobbyist for electric planes.
I chair Unhack Democracy, do green libertarianism @ epicenternetwork.eu
My substackSurvival & Success on liberalism and globalisation: garvanwalshe.org
Alicia Kearns @aliciakearns.bsky.social Conservative MP for Rutland, Stamford, and the South Kesteven and Harborough villages
Promoted by Michael Rickman on behalf of Alicia Kearns, both at 6 Market Street, Oakham, LE15 6DY
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu President of the @ec.europa.eu
Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart. 🇪🇺
Lisa Gilbert @lisa-pubcitizen.bsky.social Co-President of @Public_Citizen. Olivia's mom. Working on democracy, justice, financial, competition, consumer issues & more. Statements are my own opinions. (She/her)
Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social Public Citizen has been standing up to corporate power and holding government accountable for 50 years. We're people-powered and accept no corporate money.
Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley
Dan Crawford @d-s-crawford.bsky.social Labour member, co-operator, editor of hammyend.com, EDI enthusiast, board member of the Fulham Supporters' Trust, #ffc fan, miserable Middlesex member and a journalist
@transparency-ie.bsky.social @transparency-ie.bsky.social
James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of BusinessGreen, writing for a couple of decades or so about the environment, the economy, green politics, and the Climate Theory of Everything
Caroline Slocock @carolineslocock.bsky.social Director of think tank Civil Exchange, expert on government and civil society, political commentator, ex senior civil servant and Private Secretary to two PMs, author of People Like Us and Bad Government, published 30 June. Also on X.
Seb Berry 🇺🇦 @seb2024.bsky.social >40 years in public affairs. Former speech writer to two Secretary-Generals of the United Nations. Ex solar industry. Proud to be a UK ambassador for RePower Ukraine 🇺🇦. Former Independent councillor. Centre-left. #FBPE.
Cormac Kehoe @coramazov.bsky.social Investigative Correspondent at The Fence
Investigative Reporter for London Centric & BBC Radio 4 - "The Naked Week."
Fellow Centre for Investigative Journalism 23'.
Freya Shaw @freyashaw.bsky.social Audience Editor at The Economist and Investigative Reporter for BBC’s The Naked Week
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
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
johnsweeneyroar @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social Old school war reporter: author of 16 books inc Killer In The Kremlin, Murder In The Gulag and novel The Useful Idiot.
Co-host Lucy Letby: Was There Ever A Crime?
Founder: VPDFO! Festivals
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Share The Wealth @sharethewealthuk.bsky.social We expose the extreme wealth of the super-rich and the profiteering of big corporations. https://sharethewealth.org.uk/
Josh Lerner @joshalerner.bsky.social People Powered & Participatory Budgeting Project founder, #MakingDemocracyFun author. Posts about participatory democracy, vegan eats, dad jokes. he/él
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No government is beyond scrutiny, no situation is beyond hope.
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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social I (try to) advance our knowledge on the politics of dictatorships, political elites, comparative politics, and 💵🏠 as Professor of Political Science at University of Oslo. I also collect loads of data on governments: https://whogov.net/.
Jane Hayward @drjanehayward.bsky.social Lecturer in China and Global Affairs, Lau China Institute, King’s College London. Researching China’s agrarian question and related urban transformations.
Ethics and Integrity Commission @ethicsandintegrity.bsky.social Independent Commission that promotes high standards in public life, reports to the Prime Minister on ethics matters and advises public authorities on codes of conduct.
https://eic.independent-commission.uk/
Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things" • dylan.difford@yougov.com
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Nick Donovan @nickpdonovan.bsky.social Corruption, conflict finance, investigative journalist. Winner of Fetisov journalism prize.
Mayor of Greater Manchester @mayorofgm.bsky.social Official account for the Mayor of Greater Manchester. This account's not fully up and running yet (bear with us), so we may not see your comments. Give us a follow and we'll be here soon.
The Secret Lab⬛️r MP🥀🏴🇬🇧 @secret-labour-mp.bsky.social Anonymous Lab⬛️r MP in the House of Parliament
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk Geopolitics • Armed Politics/Political Violence • Philosophy • Political Geographies • Palestine
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Host of BLOOD WORK: An economy of violence.
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Lucy Powell MP @lucympowell.bsky.social Labour and Co-Operative MP for Manchester Central | Deputy Leader of the Labour Party🌹| Secretary of State for Education
lucy.powell.mp@parliament.uk
Eóin Tennyson @eointennyson.bsky.social Deputy Leader of the Alliance Party • MLA for Upper Bann • Progressive politics & shared future • eoin.tennyson@mla.niassembly.gov.uk