Tom Belger @tombelger.bsky.social Political and policy journalist and communications consultant, WPI Strategy senior adviser, LabourList columnist and former editor.
Previously a reporter at the Liverpool Echo, Yahoo Finance and Schools Week.
Get in touch at tombelgerwork@gmail.com.
Confederation of School Trusts @cstvoice.bsky.social We are the national organisation and sector body for school trusts in England advocating for, connecting and supporting executive and governance leaders.
DFE Answers @dfe-answers.bsky.social Bot account posting whenever the Department for Education answers or corrects an answer to a written parliamentary question. Monitored by librarians in the House of Commons Library
Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social #SaveOurChildrensRights Parent-led special educational needs and disability #SEND website. UK-based, strategic advocacy, resources, and information to help improve the lives of children & young people with disabilities and their families. Volunteers.
Daniel Hewitt @danielhewittitv.bsky.social Investigations Editor: ITV News. Author: Left to Rot (2026) out now.
Presenter: The Trapped (podcast). Make documentaries, including Surviving Squalor (ITV). West Brom fan.
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social North of England editor, the Guardian. Dad. Paul Foot Award winner 2025.
Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social Health Editor at The Sunday Times. Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety
📰 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/shaun-lintern
📝 DMs open
📨 shaun.lintern@sundaytimes.co.uk
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social Deputy ed at Inside Housing
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
Tom Wall @tomwall.bsky.social Journalist. News and investigations for the Guardian, BBC and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
✉️ t.wall@outlook.com
@martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social Local authority foster carer, journalist. Sharing news and views about the care system, children and young people. Subscribe to my weekly bulletin via weekincare@gmail.com
Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social In-depth reporting on issues affecting disabled people in the UK since 2009. www.disabilitynewsservice.com
Isabella McRae @isabellamcrae.bsky.social Senior reporter at the Big Issue | Get in touch with me at isabella.mcrae@bigissue.com
ryan john butcher @ryanjohnbutcher.bsky.social journalist | oat dad | 🏳️🌈 | he/him
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
Liam Geraghty @lgeraghty23.bsky.social @bigissue.com journalist. Writes about housing, homelessness and a bit of everything else. Story tips to liam[dot]geraghty[at]bigissue[dot]com. Personal posts will be about video games.
Tristan Kirk @kirkkorner.bsky.social Courts Editor for the Press Association
Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social UK Editor & Presenter, ITV News. Host of ITV’s flagship Tonight programme, Good Morning Britain, LBC. 6 x Royal Television Society Award winner. *Author, Fight to the Death, out Oct ‘26.* https://geni.us/FighttotheDeath
Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. UK regional journalist of the year 2025. 4 x Specialist Regional Journalist of the Year winner. Orwell Prize and Paul Foot nominee. Proud dad who loves overpriced craft ale.
Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
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
Jules Birch @julesbirch.bsky.social Journalist interested in anything connected with housing. Which means just about everything. Doctorate in housing since the financial crisis 
Will Coldwell @willcoldwell.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Words in The Guardian, GQ, FT Mag, Wired, 1843 Magazine, Prospect, The Observer and beyond
Get in touch: w.coldwell@gmail.com
willcoldwell.com
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social Disability rights & sausage pics. Journalist, commentator and DWP botherer. Author of Ramping Up Rights She/they.
https://linktr.ee/rachelcdailey
David Shipley @shipleywrites.bsky.social Did corporate finance, produced a film, committed a fraud. Served my time. Horrified by the prison system. I write and talk and try to change it.
Words in Inside Time, The Spectator, the i, amongst others.
david@david-shipley.com
Danny Shaw @dannyshaw.bsky.social Journalist, specialising in policing, crime, justice, prisons, security & immigration. Ex-BBC home affairs correspondent & former adviser to Yvette Cooper MP. These are all my views! 
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social Investigative journalist @tbij.bsky.social. garethdavies@tbij.com. Supporter of local journalism and Tottenham Hotspur. Runner. PC & board gamer 
Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social North of England correspondent at the Guardian. Mostly here to make bad jokes
Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social Writer, talker, author of ANYWHERE BUT HERE: Stories of the Search for Belonging in Modern Britain.
https://linktr.ee/nicolakellywrites
Diane Taylor @diane-writer10.bsky.social journalist @Guardian
Joel Budd @joelbudd.bsky.social Journalist at the Economist, writing about life in Britain. Author of "Underdogs".
Georgia Banjo @georgiabanjo.bsky.social Writing mostly about health, innovation and people. Britain correspondent at The Economist.
Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social South Asia bureau chief at The Economist
Greg Barradale @gregbarradale.bsky.social Senior reporter for @bigissue.com - covering untold stories from housing and asylum to drugs and politics
Mithran Samuel @mithransamuel.bsky.social Editor, communitycare.co.uk (social work/social care news and stuff)
Paul Morgan-Bentley @paulmorganbentley.bsky.social Head of Investigations at The Times in London and author. Occasional undercover reporter. 2X winner of the Cudlipp Award for investigative reporting. Dad (with husband, Robin) to two very jumpy boys (one poodle, one human) 🏳️🌈
AliJaneMoore @alijanemoore.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering the health service - southeast & ambulance services for HSJ. Not fond of authority whoever's in power. DMs open Alison.Moore@hsj.co.uk Also trustee, Cyclox, so may tweet about Oxford and cycling.
Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com Editor, Health @theguardian.com
Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social Journalist mostly covering inequalities for Guardian, Observer, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC & more.
Author of Make Bosses Pay. 2x Orwell Prize nominee. She/her.
📧 evelivingstonjournalist@gmail.com
🔗 everebeccalivingston.com
📸 eve__rebecca
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social Just a journalist, actor, broadcaster, singer, dreamer (in no particular order)… rep Red Talent Management. AuDHer 🧠 Views my own 💭 ✨
James Tapper @jamestapper.bsky.social Journalist at The Observer / observer.co.uk
I write about science, health and other things.
Shanti Das @shantidas.bsky.social Senior investigations reporter, The Times. Previously: The Observer / The Sunday Times. Orwell prize for exposing Britain’s social evils 2023
📝 shanti.das@thetimes.co.uk / @shantidas.01 (Signal)
Jon Ungoed-Thomas @jonungoedthomas.bsky.social Reporter. The Observer
Jon.Ungoed-Thomas@Observer.co.uk
https://observer.co.uk/contributor/jon-ungoed-thomas
Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social Journalist at @tbij.bsky.social. I cover inequality, precarious work and migration.
You can contact me on emilianomellino@tbij.com
https://linktr.ee/emiliano.mellino
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/profile/emilianomellino
Matt Lee @mattleejourno.bsky.social Award-winning journalist for EssexLive | Asker of "funny questions" - press officer | Views my own | Got a story? DMs open
Saba Salman @sabasalman.com Journalist|editor|author
📚NEW BOOK Double Discrimination 2026
📚Made Possible 2020
👩🏽💻 https://sabasalman.com
✍🏽Private Eye|Guardian|Byline Times|Ed. Community Living
💜Chair @sibs.org.uk|Ambassador @ndtihello.bsky.social
🏛️FRSA @thersaorg.bsky.social
Sophia Watkins @sophiassocials.bsky.social Senior journalist at BBC News. Author of the Media Toolkit for Journalists and Care Experienced People. TEDx speaker: What Makes a Life Newsworthy?
Lottie Elton @lottieelton.bsky.social Big Issue reporter
✉️ lottie.elton@bigissue.com
Rob Hastings @robhastings.bsky.social 📰 Special Projects Editor at @TheiPaper.com, based in London
✍️ I write long reads, investigations and interviews
🏆 Legal Reporting Award winner
⚽️ Spurs fan
💻 https://robhastings.co.uk
💻 https://inews.co.uk/author/rob-hastings
Lauren Crosby Medlicott @laurenmedlicott.bsky.social Freelance Journalist 
Sam Gelder @samgelder.bsky.social Investigations editor at Liberty Investigates. Previously of Dialogue Earth, openDemocracy, Big Issue, HuffPost, Hackney Gazette. London via Wolverhampton
Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social FactCheck and Data News Editor at Channel 4 News. I cover UK and US politics, economics, the NHS, crime and justice, the environment, immigration, Israel Gaza, Ukraine Russia, and misinformation.
James Riding @jamesriding.bsky.social Living Markets Editor at Inside Housing | Book reviews in The Times | Press Awards 30 Under 30 2024 | james.riding@oceanmedia.co.uk
Ros Wynne-Jones @roswynnejones.bsky.social Writer of Daily Mirror social justice column #RealBritain + special projects #Yr9No10 #PeopleMove #BritainTalks #WiganPierProject. Books include 'The Journey' with Abdul Musa Adam. Novellas, bread & border terrier enthusiast. @realbritainros over there. 
Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
Jane Haynes @janerockhouse.bsky.social Journalist, Birmingham. Politics, social affairs, campaigns. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/authors/jane-haynes/ Also Substack https://insidebirmingham.substack.com/ 07471025568 jane.haynes@reachplc.com
Ellen Peirson-Hagger @ellencph.bsky.social Deputy books and arts editor, the Observer
ellencph.co.uk
Anna Fazackerley @annafazack.bsky.social Education journalist, write for The Observer & The Guardian, keen on walking, wine, kindness, the aptly used expletive. Totally over misogyny and hoping this place is better. 
Louise Tickle @louisetickle.bsky.social Loves puffins. Dreams of Skomer. Writing novel 2. First slowly. Then faster.
Hannah Summers @hansummers.bsky.social Investigative journalist/ family courts for @tbij.bsky.social |Best specialist journalist 2023 - Freelance Journalism Awards |Media Freedom Awards winner 2025
Kirsty Weakley @kirstyweakley.bsky.social Journalist for Local Government Chronicle
John Roberts @johngroberts.bsky.social SEND and inclusion editor at Tes. Dad of 2. SEND parent. john.roberts@tes.com
Jasmine Norden @jasminenorden.bsky.social Senior writer at Tes. Get in touch at jasmine.norden@tes.com
Cerys Turner @cerysturner.bsky.social News reporter at Tes. Covering Ofsted, curriculum, teacher training, AI and more.
✍🏻 The Times, Big Issue, Metro
(Pronounced like the Welsh singer, not the colour)
https://www.tes.com/magazine/author/cerys-turner
Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.
I conduct investigative journalism and help people better understand Wales/Cymru.
You sign up to my newsletter here: willhaywardwales.substack.com
Columnist at The Guardian.
Michael Goodier @michaelgoodier.bsky.social Journalist on the Guardian Data Projects team
London and Brighton
Ignore my silly posts
Katharine Swindells @kathyswinds.bsky.social deputy features editor at inside housing • also seen in new statesman, guardian, inews, boston globe, teen vogue • kath.swindells@insidehousing.co.uk • she/her
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Sammy Gecsoyler @sammygecsoyler.bsky.social news reporter @guardian - reach me on sammy.gecsoyler@theguardian.com
Ramsay Hodgson @ramshodgson.bsky.social News reporter - Financial Times
Andrew Kersley @andrewkersley.bsky.social Investigative journalist at @londonermag.bsky.social - andrew@the-londoner.co.uk
Subscribe to support my work - https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/#/portal/signup
Previously freelance at Observer, Sunday Times, Mirror, Private Eye etc
Patrick Butler @patrickjbutler.bsky.social Social Policy editor, The Guardian. Winner of the Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism 2025.
Henry Anderson @henryanderson1.bsky.social Journalist for HSJ covering the NHS. Special interest in £££
Tips to henry.anderson@hsj.co.uk
Albert Toth @alb-toth.bsky.social Audience Reporter at The Independent | Welfare, housing, cost of living | Get in touch: albert.toth@independent.co.uk
https://www.justgiving.com/page/albert-toth
https://www.independent.co.uk/author/albert-toth
Kate Belgrave @katebelgrave.bsky.social Journalist. Problem with authority that I'm too old to have. Blogger, housing and benefits activist. Interview-based podcast with people with housing and benefits problems. Non tribal politically. Dislike them all. https://whovotedforthis.buzzsprout.com/
Georgia Lambert @georgiamay.bsky.social News and education reporter at The Times
Email for tips + stories: georgia.lambert@the-times.co.uk
Emily Dugan @emilydugan.bsky.social Special correspondent at The Sunday Times. Focused on public interest investigations and in-depth reporting. Tips to emily.dugan@sundaytimes.co.uk 
James Cracknell @jollyjourno.bsky.social The only full-time local journalist dedicated to covering Enfield, North London.
Editor of Enfield Dispatch and editor-in-chief for publisher Social Spider CIC. Supporter of Ipswich Town. Also a big fan of democracy.
Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social Foreign correspondent, columnist, campaigner, co-founder Africa Express, citizen of the world and a bit more besides…
Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social News reporter at The Times. Migration, security and all things maritime.
Prior winner, Paul Foot Award, 30Under30 etc.
Want to talk stories? DM or use yeomans.97 on Signal
Ruth Lucas @ruthlucas.bsky.social Reporter at Schools Week, covering behaviour, attendance, children's rights and some SEND. Former Local Democracy Reporter
Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social Education journo (Head of News at Tes Magazine)/data nerd/school governor/mum of girls
https://www.tes.com/magazine/news
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The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social Every football story that matters. Breaking news. In-depth analysis.
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic
Heather Fearn @heatherbellaf.bsky.social Director of curriculum and assessment for MAT. 
Sam Sims @drsamsims.bsky.social Associate Prof of Education, UCL
Research Lead, Ambition Institute
Site: https://samsims.education/
Jack Worth @jackworth.bsky.social Education economist at NFER researching recruitment and retention in the education workforce
Shane Chowen @ukshane.bsky.social Editor at FE Week - reporting on further education, skills and apprenticeships. Story tips: shane.chowen@feweek.co.uk
Mark McCourt @markmccourt.bsky.social CEO, Academy Transformation Trust;
Chairman, Advantage Schools- O Ollie Lane @ollielane10.bsky.social Political & media consultant.
MD @PLMRLtd.
PRCA 2020 Consultant of Year.
Ex-journalist; ex-DCSF/DfE, No10 comms. @HarvardHBS.
Father.
ME13. SE3. SW1.
Micon Metcalfe @miconm.bsky.social Education Finance and Business expert. Multi Academy Trust Chair. Cat lover. Rubbish runner
Caroline Doherty @cjdoherty.bsky.social Head of Public Affairs at Ark. Likely to post about education and equity. 
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.
Leora Cruddas CBE @leoracruddas.bsky.social Chief executive of the Confederation of School Trusts
Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social Co-Founder of TeacherTapp, daily poll of 12k teachers. Former editor of Schools Week & Guardian columnist. Once a teacher, always a teacher.
SAY: Laura 'Mack & Ernie' (like there's 3 of us!)
Steve Rollett @steverollett.bsky.social Deputy CEO of the Confederation of School Trusts (CST). All opinions are my own. 
Simon Kidwell @simonkidwell.bsky.social School Principal and NAHT Past President . All views expressed are my own.