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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social Mom. Wife. Author. Defender of democracy. marytrump.org
Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot Scottish elections and polling data. Not my polls. OG 'Britain Elects but Scottish'. PR fan account. Trans rights are human rights.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Press Gazette energy & environment journalist of the year 2022
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
Moyeen Islam @moyeen.bsky.social Rates and bikes. Wholly unable to deal with Thibaut Pinot’s retirement. “Gilt guru” and “ethereal bond vigilante” by day, elite level idiot with Bengali Dad energy at all other times. Baked goods and fried chicken enthusiast.
Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social Reuters Journalist of the Year 2025: 'Scoop of the Year'
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Steven Swinford @stevenswinford.bsky.social Political Editor, The Times
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com Substack: mjrobbins.com
Podcast: abundancepod.com
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Ben Hopkinson @hopkinsonben.bsky.social Head of Research at Britain Remade
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
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Ed Balls @officialedballs.bsky.social Dad, cook, pianist, economist, Harvard, King's London, Holocaust Fdn co-Chair, NCFC, podcaster, retired dancer, former Cabinet minister, sometimes on TV & Radio
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Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social Policy thoughts: http://timleunig.substack.com Chief Economist Nesta, Director Econ PublicFirst, Vis Prof LSE Sch Public Policy, Vis Fellow Inst for Govt
Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social Writing for The Economist—mostly on the US economy, with occasional forays elsewhere. Recreational Britain-watcher. Previous lives in macro investing and polling.
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Sam Dumitriu @samdumitriu.bsky.social Head of Policy at Britain Remade.
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: editor, indevelopmentmag.com; writer, laurenpolicy.com.
Sam Alvis @samalvis.bsky.social South West native, currently co-lead economy & climate team @IPPR - (views mine)
Industrial strategy | Bazball | @BristolBears
Anton Howes @antonhowes.bsky.social Historian of invention. www.ageofinvention.xyz
Stian Westlake @stianwestlake.bsky.social Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council. Metascience, evidence, data infrastructures, economic growth.
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social Economics, politics, boxing. Tech @ TBI. "optimistic & ambitious for British tech". ex-ADS, JLR, MakeUK, SMF, Brookings. Views my own.
Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social Director of Strategy @re-state.bsky.social, Founder http://greaterlondon.co, Columnist in CityAM. ex Treasury. Views my own
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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian.
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social @islington-labour.bsky.social councillor for Hillrise. @yimbylabour.bsky.social co-chair. @smfthinktank.bsky.social senior fellow. Views regrettably my own.
Gordon McKee MP @gordonmckee.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Glasgow South and eternal optimist.
Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social Director of Policy and Research at Centre for Cities, working on Housing, Planning, Devolution. Stuff on Ukraine + Eastern Europe and Japan + East Asia too. YIMBY. Views own etc. 🥑🇺🇦
Marley Miller @marleygmiller.bsky.social Designing new ways to get affordable housing built, Thriving investments. Former economic adviser to Rachel Reeves and Treasury official.
Dan Tomlinson MP @dantomlinson.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Chipping Barnet. Exchequer Secretary & Growth Minister in HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office.
🥑🗽🏗 Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O @gaylussite.himbonomics.com 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴
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John Myers @johnrmyers.bsky.social Director @yimbyalliance.org • Housing and other infrastructure • yimbyalliance.org
Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan @rossaokod.bsky.social Research @ Open Philanthropy. Formerly economist at GPI / Nuffield College, Oxford.
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Sanjush Dalmia @sanjushdalmia.bsky.social Science, Innovation and AI Policy | Committee @labourcid.bsky.social and Labour Digital | Fellow @britishprogress.org | NHS Doctor and Medical Researcher
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Manchester / Leeds
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Elliot Jones @elliotmjones.bsky.social Research Scientist @ UK AI Security Institute
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Jeremy Driver @jdriver89.bsky.social Head of Campaigns at Britain Remade
George McGowan @gjmcgowan.bsky.social
Andrew Bennett @droojb.bsky.social trying to scale progress, quickly | @andrewjb_ on twitter
Freddie Poser @freddieposer.com Head of Product, Centre for British Progress | Director of Priced Out
Kane Emerson @kaneemerson.bsky.social Head of housing research @ YIMBY Alliance 🏡
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Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social henrydashwood.com
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Alistair Strathern MP @alistrathern.bsky.social Hitchin’s Labour MP | Standing up for our towns & villages.
Priced Out @pricedout.bsky.social The Campaign for Affordable House Prices
Ben Southwood @bswud.bsky.social Founder and editor of Works in Progress magazine.
Rachel Edwards @underthenettle.bsky.social Fan of economic growth, fringe theatre, beautiful places, parties, the future. Working at worksinprogress.co & Stripe.
Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social
Britain Remade @britainremade.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Britain Remade is a campaign to promote economic growth. We put forward practical solutions to the problems holding Britain back.
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Anastasia Bektimirova @anastasiabekt.bsky.social science & tech policy, government innovation
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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social Research, technology and politics.
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Anna Valero @asvalero.bsky.social Professor in Practice and Growth Programme Director, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA (🇬🇧/acc) @mprinparr.bsky.social Kardashev City-State Builder • Founder @RomullusCompute @ReindustrialUK • Author • ran £165m RE dev pfolio • designd T3 compute•alum: Futureal @Gensler @UniofNottingham
John Van Reenen @johnvanreenen.bsky.social Ronald Coase School Professor LSE and Digital Fellow, MIT
Paul Graham @iampaulgraham.bsky.social
Theo Bertram @theobertram.bsky.social Director of the Social Market Foundation
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.
Emily Fry @emilyfry.bsky.social Economic adviser.
Charlotte Pickles @charliepickles.bsky.social Director @re-state.bsky.social; all things State and public services.
Philip Salter @philipsalter.bsky.social Founder of The Entrepreneurs Network
CaSE @sciencecampaign.bsky.social Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) is the leading independent voice for UK R&D.
www.sciencecampaign.org.uk
ananyo.bsky.social @ananyo.bsky.social Chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences. 'The Man from the Future', on the unparalleled influence of John von Neumann, available everywhere.
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Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk Same as @thomasforth on X. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
Maxwell Marlow @maxwellmarlow.bsky.social Director of Policy at the YIMBY Initiative • Director of Public Affairs at the Adam Smith Institute • 🏗️ Advisor to PricedOut • Co-Founder of Conservative YIMBY • views are mine • sapere aide
Paul Swinney @paulswinney.bsky.social Chief Economist at The Data City. Formerly of Centre for Cities. Posting mainly about economics.
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)
John Whitfield @johnwhitfield.bsky.social (Science) journalist and author.
Opinion editor, Research Professional News.
Books: Lost Animals; People Will Talk ; In the Beat of a Heart.
www.johnwhitfield.co.uk
Kir Nuthi @kirtinuthi.bsky.social A London-based policy wonk who loves to chat about AI + encryption. Currently technology trade association-ing. Bookbinder and yogi often found in wild near dogs, yoga mats, and/or art supplies. Smartphone-free.
Ross Mudie @rmudie96.bsky.social Researcher. Currently exploring England with @iconeighbours.bsky.social, former think tanker
Dan Turner @dtturner.bsky.social Sheffield-based researcher. Interested in regional growth, populism and political economy.
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
Richard Ngo @richardngo.bsky.social What would we need to understand in order to design an amazing future? Ex DeepMind, OpenAI
Tom Harwood @tomhfharwood.bsky.social politics and policy
Tone Langengen @tonelangengen.bsky.social Senior climate and energy policy adviser at TBI
Robert Colvile @rcolvile.bsky.social Former boss of CPS think tank and CapX, Sunday columnist for The Times, author of 'The Great Acceleration'. Politics, policy and parenting.
Sophie Hale @sophiehale.bsky.social Research Director leading on economic growth, trade and intergenerational fairness at the Resolution Foundation.
Alexander Iosad @iosad.fyi Progress, policy, practice. Past: TBI, edtech VC, history of science DPhil.
AI & tech optimist, not solutionist. Fan of universities, state capacity, 🏏. School governor, occasionally. Diasporan ✡️.
Centre for British Progress @britishprogress.org The Centre for British Progress is a non-partisan think tank on a mission to accelerate and shape an era of British growth and progress; evolved from @ukdayone.bsky.social.
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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social Known for other things but mainly use this to talk about video games to be honest with you.
Julia Willemyns @jujulemons.bsky.social Founder @ukdayone.bsky.social, working to put the UK at frontier of progress + achieve the highest living standards in the world
John Bachelor @johndbachelor.bsky.social
UK Day One @ukdayone.bsky.social An election year project for growth and progress. The project has concluded and evolved into a new pro-growth think tank - the Centre for @britishprogress.org
Website: https://ukdayone.org/
David Lawrence @davidlawrenceuk.bsky.social Shooting for UK growth & progress with @britishprogress.org
Previously: Chatham House research fellow and Labour parliamentary candidate.
Britain could have the highest living standards in the world!
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