Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social Cosmopolitan, liberal | Catholic | 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇮🇪🇬🇧🇦🇹🔶 | Mark 8:36 | he/him
Doing an MSc in Environmental Technology
Formerly: Harris-Walz, Kingston Council
The British Election Study @britishelectionstudy.com Britain’s oldest social survey. We provide non-partisan and independent data and research on elections in Britain.
Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social social science methodology, sport etc. 
Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social Professor, LSE | Head of the Department of Government | Exec Council of EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social | Chair of EES @eesresearch.bsky.social | Co-Director of POAL @poalab.bsky.social | Fellow of the British Academy | Author of Tribal Politics (OUP)
James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor at The Spectator
Martha Ford @martha-ford.bsky.social Research assistant, public finances @instituteforgovernment.org.uk
Ben Paxton @drbenpaxton.bsky.social Senior Researcher at the @instituteforgov.bsky.social. Views my own.
Stuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social Associate Director in the public services team
@InstituteforGov. Interested in the NHS, adult social care, and local government. All views my own. He/him
Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social Journalist covering cybersecurity and intelligence. UK Editor at The Record from Recorded Future News. Dad of two.
🏠 Sheffield
📧 alexander.martin@therecord.media
📱 Signal: AlexanderMartin.79
Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Freelance research/policy/advocacy/writing on all things Parliament and government. Associate at IfG and Associate at State of the Future.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
Neal Hudson @resi-analyst.bsky.social UK housing market analyst. Personal account.
Analysis and commentary at https://builtplace.com/
Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School.
Columnist for FT Weekend’s Money.
Richard Vaughan @richardvaughan.bsky.social Director, Media at Public First/Stonehaven. Generally tired.
Rajeev Syal @syalrajeev.bsky.social Home affairs editor, The Guardian. 
Megan Bryer @meganbryer.bsky.social 
Sophie Metcalfe @sophiemetcalfe.bsky.social Senior researcher in policymaking at Institute for Government - especially all things housing, planning and early years
Shaina Sangha @shaina-sangha.bsky.social Researcher in public services team and formerly public finances @instituteforgovernment.org.uk.
Interested in immigration and asylum policy, and policymaking for groups historically underserved by the state.
Former parliamentary staffer.
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social Twirling, twirling towards freedom
Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social I'll do this bit properly one day
Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social #Labour4PR Official Bluesky of:
🌹 Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform (LCER)
🔗 http://labourforelectoralreform.org.uk
✊ Labour for a New Democracy (L4ND)
🔗 https://www.labourforanewdemocracy.org.uk
Sarah Manavis @sarahmanavis.bsky.social american author of TELL ME ABOUT MYSELF (2027) on the rise and impact of psychotherapy, HarperCollins (UK) + Simon & Schuster (US). writer at the Observer + elsewhere
sarahmanavis.com / she/her
UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social UK in a Changing Europe is an academic think tank providing impartial, research-based analysis of the critical issues facing the UK.
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/
Matthew Aldridge @mpaldridge.bsky.social But blue. https://mpaldridge.github.io
Claire Ainsley @claire-ainsley.bsky.social Director PPI project on Centre-left Renewal; author ‘The New Working Class’; Exec Director of Policy for Labour and Keir Starmer 2020-22
Radical Embroiderer @radicalembroiderer.bsky.social Mother, embroiderer, Member of S.E.W. , P.C.O., The Woman’s Line. Volunteer Bristol Stitching Together Project. Memorial Device ANT 🐜 
Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley
Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app ✊🏾 • Beer • SSF2X • おつまみ大好き • DrinkLocal • Lakers (1981-2026) • Dodgers • 阪神タイガース • Joshi Puroresu • お相撲 • Bleeding Heart 🍻 • Fei Long • 春麗 • Karin Kanzuki • Jamie Siu 🍶
Peter Race @cokeynesian.bsky.social Postwar British history is obsessive. AKA Whitelocke or CoKeynesian.
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Arguably @arguablymag.bsky.social The new home of progressive ideas and debate.
Subscribe on Substack: Arguably.uk
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social Director - Labour Growth Group
Work with political people to do inherently political things.
Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section).
http://amnesty.org.uk/
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!
Ben Judah @benjudah.bsky.social Writer and former FCDO Special Adviser.
Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social 🌹 Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley
📈 Member of the Treasury Select Committee
✉️ Please email if you'd like a reply: yuan.yang.mp@parliament.uk
Noah Law MP @noahlawmp.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for St Austell & Newquay
Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social Jewish. Deputy Editor of Jewish News. Resh Galuta of Bluesky. Regular entrant on the NY Times Bestseller List of Unpublished Books. All opinions are mine.
Sarah Ditum @sarahditum.bsky.social Writer, Sunday Times (and UnHerd and the Critic)
TOXIC: WOMEN, FAME AND THE NOUGHTIES out 26 October https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toxic-Sarah-Ditum-ebook/dp/B09ZT37CVW
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social Editor in Chief of @politicshome.bsky.social and @thehousemag.bsky.social. Exhausted.
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Chief political commentator and executive
editor, Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/robert-shrimsley
https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/robert-shrimsley/
Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social Trade policy. Partner @ Flint Global. Associate fellow @ Chatham House.
I have a Substack: https://mostfavourednation.substack.com
Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social Emmy-award-winning journalist
https://lukemcgee.substack.com/
luke@luke-mcgee.com
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social Journalist.
I like sad soup and rocks.
Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social BBC News in Westminster
Graeme Downie MP @graemedowniemp.bsky.social @ScottishLabour MP for Dunfermline & Dollar.
'A pointy-fingered fellow' - Quentin Letts.
Graeme.downie.mp@parliament.uk. 
Damien Smith @indysmith.bsky.social Deputy Director of Research (Economics) at the ESRC. Loves cities. Views own.
Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social History Correspondent and Diary Editor for The Times
Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social Former Lib Dem London Mayoral candidate. Breaking Putin's censorship
Nicole Sykes @nicolesykes.bsky.social Charities, charts, cats.
Director of Strategy, Impact and Innovation at Lloyds Bank Foundation. She/her🏳️🌈
Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social Probably the only Wisła Kraków fan on bluesky.
Greg Rosen @gregrosen.bsky.social Senior Counsel at SEC Newgate. Wrote books. Now dad. Former govt strategist and political columnist. Chair, Labour History Group @LabourHistory
Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com Europe Correspondent for Haaretz and author of The Vienna Briefing: viennabriefing.substack.com. Website: liamhoare.com. You can reach me at: contact@liamhoare.com
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
@davidgauke @davidgauke.bsky.social Recovering politician, writes columns, editor of The Case For The Centre Right.
Helen Thomas @helentbiz.ft.com Head of Lex @FT. Ex @BBCNewsnight, @WSJ. 
Emma Norris @emmanorris.bsky.social Deputy CEO @ippr.org. Chair of Young Women’s Trust. Former deputy and now senior fellow @instituteforgovernment.org.uk. Think tanker. Westminster watcher. Progressive. Walthamstow resident. 🏳️🌈
Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social Partner, Public First and Head of Education Practice. Education strategy + policy advisory. Former civil servant + think tanker. Occasional loud LFC. Centrist Dad, so naturally I also have a Substack.
Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy at University of Manchester. Soon to be Birmingham.
Jack Fiehn @jackfiehn.bsky.social Political reporter for BBC Radio Surrey. Film buff
Dan Paskins @danpaskins.bsky.social Save the Children UK Exec Director - UK Impact
Vice-Chair, End Child Poverty
Chair, Civic Power Fund
General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular
Daniel Hall @hall68.bsky.social Twitter refugee, enjoy geeking out on films, music (rock, progressive, electronica: analogue > digital) and politics (left of centre and passionately European). #LUFC. My ‘high elbow catch’ and ‘mid-foot strike’ are a life’s work
Tim Shipman @shippersunbound.bsky.social Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)
Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social Guardian reporter and author of Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain.
Chris Stark @chrisstark.bsky.social Head of the UK’s Mission for Clean Power by 2030.
Former CEO of the UK’s Climate Change Committee. 
Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social Programme Director at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk working on public services 
Francis Elliott @franciselliott.bsky.social Journalist and author, editor of The House. 
Martha Gill @marthagill.bsky.social Observer columnist 
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705 
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social Economics, politics, boxing. Tech @ TBI. "optimistic & ambitious for British tech". ex-ADS, JLR, MakeUK, SMF, Brookings. Views my own.
George Lloyd-King @glloydking.bsky.social Communications Manager at the Ada Lovelace Institute
@adalovelaceinst.bsky.social
Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social Co-editor of @civilserviceworld.bsky.social. Civil servants are my bag.
Matt Korris @mattkorris.bsky.social Clerk, House of Lords.
Luke Marshall-Waterfield @lukewaterfield.bsky.social Deputy Chief Digital Officer for the Mayor of London.
Friso @friso.bsky.social A polymath but for only one math. And that math is the sea - was a Palaeoceanography PhD student at Queen Mary University.
Mike Buckley @mdbuckley.bsky.social Director, Independent Commission on UK EU Relations. Writer. Commentator. Yorkshireman. Labour. Former aid worker. 🇺🇦 ukeucommission.org
Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social https://www.routledge.com/Britain-and-Ireland-from-the-Treaty-to-the-Troubles-Independence-and-Interdependence-c-1921-1973/Carr/p/book/9781032879871
History/politics lecturer. My views only.
Books about British-Irish relations, Blair/Clinton, Chaplin etc
Esther Addley @estheraddley.bsky.social Guardian senior news writer, Derry Girl. Likes old stones and potatoes. 
Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social Media Editor for @theguardian.com. Likes ≠ endorsements, obv. Story? 👇👇👇
Michael.savage@theguardian.com
Need a secure way to contact me? Signal username: word_builder.20
Matt Walsh @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. Trustee at The Conversation UK and BJTC. Chair of the judges, 2025 Orwell Prize for Journalism. Hacked about a bit.
Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social Known for other things but mainly use this to talk about video games to be honest with you.
Calum Weir @cwp-weir.bsky.social Research Manager at ThinkLabour 📈 - Opinions all my own - He/Him
Running: www.pollingpolis.co.uk
Philip Brien @statisticalphil.bsky.social Researcher at the Commons Library. Public spending, local government, anything else that looks interesting.
Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social FT Alphaville reporter. Ex-“veteran” fund manager. Resolution Foundation Assoc. Baring Foundation Trustee.
Michael Goodier @michaelgoodier.bsky.social Journalist on the Guardian Data Projects team
London and Brighton
Ignore my silly posts
Rezina Chowdhury @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social Former Labour Cllr in Lambeth (inner London borough UK). Climate activist. Social & policy Researcher. Interested in public health & behaviour change.Trade Unionist. Fan of tactical urbanism (and cats!) 🐈⬛ 🌳🐝🌹
Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social Chair, Generation Rent. Play England. Paddington, South Kilburn and OPDC. Former MP for Westminster North. Labour. Housing, Sondheim, Springsteen and other passions. Views entirely personal..
Gregor Poynton @gregorpoynton.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for the Livingston constituency.
Please email gregor.poynton.mp@parliament.uk with casework.
Eleni Courea @ecourea.bsky.social Political correspondent for the Guardian
Get in touch — eleni.courea@theguardian.com or carob7@proton.me
Anna Yearley @annayearley.bsky.social Joint Executive Director, Reprieve. Former office of Gordon Brown & Ed Miliband. 
Rachel Kinnock @rachkinnock.bsky.social 
Thom Brooks @thombrooks.bsky.social Professor of Law, Ethics & Government and Principal of Collingwood College, Durham University. Citizenship & immigration policy — evidence cited across the 2026 Lords report on settlement, citizenship & integration. Commentator: BBC • Sky • CNN.
Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social Proud Milton Keynesian and Labour MP for MK North. Can't spell, views my own.
Henry Mendoza @vortigan.bsky.social Moonlighting between here and the Other Place
Emma Burnell @emmaburnell.bsky.social Editor of LabourList. Playwright. Cool aunt.
Mike Craven @mikecraven.bsky.social Founder and executive chair of Lexington. Politics, education, religion, dogs and Yorkshire.
Noah Keate @noahkeate.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Sunday Crunch Author for @politico.eu. Loves cats, Edinburgh, 'The Archers', trains and Earl Grey Tea. Email: nkeate@politico.co.uk