Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social Senior Fellow @instituteforgov.bsky.social
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Charlotte O'Brien @cobrien.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of York (she/her). Social security; EU law; discrimination; migration; social justice.
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
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https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
Hilary Cottam @hilarycottam.bsky.social Author of Radical Help and The Work We Need (out May 2025), Hon Prof @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Trustee @jrf-uk.bsky.social. Doer. Free Radical www.hilarycottam.com
Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social News editor of the Financial Times
Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb
Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social Chief Executive, Resolution Foundation
Anne-Sylvaine Chassany @chassnews.bsky.social FT Berlin bureau chief, former Companies editor, World editor and Paris bureau chief
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
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/
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.
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social "journalist". Editor, reporter, sub-editor, social media manager, finance manager, complaints manager, dogsbody at @greenwichwire.bsky.social (follow that, not me!) / greenwichwire.co.uk. Freelance sub-editor elsewhere. Tired. #cafc #dhfc #fcsp #altona93
Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @brookings.edu. Previously Chief Economist at IIF and Chief FX Strategist at Goldman Sachs.
The Greenwich Wire @greenwichwire.bsky.social Reader-funded public interest journalism for SE London funded by its readers.
Accept no imitations.
www.greenwichwire.co.uk
Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. at the European Institute, LSE. Research and teach the political economy of the state; green transition; regenerative economics. Optimist. Alarmed by people who lack self-doubt...
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.
St Bride's Church, Fleet Street @stbrides.com A magnificent Wren Church open for all 7 days a week to visit, listen, worship or pray. We are a warm & welcoming community, renowned for its world-class choir and music, and as the #Journalists_Church. www.stbrides.com
Jill Rutter @jillyrutter.bsky.social Policy and programme adviser at Belong, the Cohesion and Integration Network. Associate fellow at British Future
Interests: employment, immigration, integration and cohesion policy, heritage, elections, Ukraine, textiles, ceramics.
Mum. Posts are personal
Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social Financial Times columnist and writer.
👩🏼💻 https://www.ft.com/jemima-kelly
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory
Former Head of Department of Government and PVC Education
London School of Economics
Author Against Post-liberalism: Why Faith, Family and Flag is a Dead End for the Left, Polity Press 2025
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Augusta Dell'Omo @augustacaesar.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Center for Presidential History at SMU
"Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War” available for preorder to release March 2026
Historian of global conservatism and the far right, all thoughts my own
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social Associate Editor & Writer @NewStatesman; Author, Baillie Gifford & Orwell shortlisted “Time to Think” http://bit.ly/TimetoThinkBook; Formerly @bbcnewsnight
BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social Equities, ETFs, Rates, FX trader. also 🎥, 📺, 🏏 and the 80's. imposters get blocked and reported, and I never DM re crypto (which is the ultimate moron 'asset').
Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social Mostly systems thinking, complexity & frustration. Finally scratching an itch with my MSc in Human Evolution at UCL.
Substack: https://clairejhartnell.substack.com/
Charlotte Pickles @charliepickles.bsky.social Director @re-state.bsky.social; all things State and public services.
Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com Brussels Bureau Chief, Financial Times.
Past lives in Moscow, Warsaw, London, Delhi and Mumbai.
Get in touch henry.foy@ft.com
https://www.ft.com/henry-foy
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.
Anton Spisak @antonspisak.bsky.social Senior research fellow, Centre for European Reform. Likes good coffee, long runs, and the Paris Review.
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Andrew Jennings @andrewkjennings.com Corporate/securities law professor, Emory University
Host, Business Scholarship Podcast (@busscholarship.bsky.social)
Creator, KFilings (@kfilings.com)
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Vicki Bryan's Bond Angle @bondangle.bsky.social Founder, Bond Angle LLC
30 yrs HY investment mgmt.
Love my dogs, my OTTB mare, cycling, hiking.
Spicy lifelong Dem in TX b/4 greedy billionaires & “Christian” GOP fascists & deplorables trashed it.
#KamalaWasRight #Ukraine🇺🇦
https://bondangle.substack.com
Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social HF trader and manager. Former sell side and NYSE. Views are mine and not my employers or investment advice. NFL owner. #girldad
Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social Fed and economy reporter with @reuters.com, ex-WSJ. Failed musician, guitar holdout. Signal: michaelsderby.50
Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com Substack: mjrobbins.com
Podcast: abundancepod.com
European Central Bank @ecb.europa.eu The European Central Bank is the central bank for Europe’s single currency, the euro. Its main task is to maintain the euro’s purchasing power.
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social 
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Journalist. Speaker. Writer. Commentator.
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Society. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture. The personal. The structural.
Editor in Chief, Byline Times.
hardeep@bylinetimes.com / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social not the one.
i am a journalist and i work for Bloomberg News. Obligatory disclaimers about opinions.
No DMs for reporting tips. Signal at @s_m_i.99
don’t expect posts to stick around.
Derek Brower @derekbrower.bsky.social US News Editor at the Financial Times. Half Mancunian, half Canadian
Beth Kowitt @bethkowitt.bsky.social Corporate America columnist for Bloomberg Opinion
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com Pre-order: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (6/30 HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social Weekly geopolitical intelligence • Former WEF MD
https://7thin.gs/
Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social Features journalist - NYTimes, Financial Times, Telegraph. On a book break.
https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
Betsey Stevenson @betseystevenson.bsky.social Former Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers & Chief Economist at Labor. Current academic economist at Michigan. Always an economist at home.
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social Vice Dean and Professor at the IE School of Economics, Politics and Global Affairs at IE University, Madrid (she/her)
www.catherinedevries.eu
Respect the Marble Substack: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
Richard Tofel @dicktofel.bsky.social now consulting at Gallatin Advisory, instructor @HarvardChanSPH, author of Second Rough Draft on Substack; former president of ProPublica
Fresco-Le-Raye @frescoleraye.bsky.social Fresco-Le-Raye is a multi-hyphenate, unlike The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Moby-Dick and Terry-Thomas.
たまねぎなしください
Vivat haec sodalitas
Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social Something new comes in on each daily tide, and who knows what digging will turn up? Native Tampeño. Vanderbilt and Financial Times alumnus. European. Londoner. Opera. Figs.
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
@johnauthers.bsky.social @johnauthers.bsky.social 
Bruegel @bruegel.org Independent and non-doctrinal international economics think-tank with a mission to improve economic policy.
www.bruegel.org
Jane Martinson @janemartinson.bsky.social Writes, speaks, teaches for a living. Journalist, City U Prof Financial Journalism, Author - You May Never See Us Again. The Barclay Dynasty: A story of survival, secrecy and succession out 19 October: https://amzn.eu/d/669hZna
John Thornhill @johnthornhill.bsky.social Founder of Sifted, the FT-backed startup covering European tech. Tech columnist Financial Times and host of Tech Tonic podcast
https://www.ft.com/john-thornhill
Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, AL-MONITOR | Professor, GWU
https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/china-middle-east-briefing-7305587918826319872/
Jan Fichtner @janfichtner.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at Leuphana University, Germany. Previously SuFi Project Uni Witten & University of Amsterdam | Global finance, age of passive investing, index providers, ESG, sustainable finance, greenwashing, decarbonization | www.jfichtner.net
Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social Guardian reporter and author of Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain.
Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles.
"I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
Ian Harnett @ianrharnett.bsky.social Veteran macro-strategist. Co-founder Absolute Strategy Research - all views are my own - not those of ASR. Any likes/reposts do not mean endorsement. 
Lisa Kramer @lisakramer.com Financial economist musing on behavioural finance, behavioral economics, emotion, markets, risk, pensions, humans, & animals.
Professor of Finance, University of Toronto
Joint Sponsors, UPP
Board of Directors, UTAM & We Animals
http://www.lisakramer.com
Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Study very bad things that happen to people who don't deserve it, write books, overuse sarcasm. Lviv-Haifa-Jerusalem-Madison-New Haven-Washington-Bologna.
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
Second Reading @commonslibrary.bsky.social Unofficial bot account posting whenever the House of Commons Library publishes new research and analysis. 
Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social Paris Bureau Chief, The Economist. Author of “Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the quest to reinvent a nation” (Bloomsbury)
Philip Stafford @staffordphilip.bsky.social Reporter at the Financial Times https://bsky.app/profile/financialtimes.com.
Bits of UK retail, markets, bits of market structure, bits of crypto or mix of all of them.
If you've been spammed in your DM with a crypto scam, it's not me.
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com FT Magazine Food and Drink editor 
David Sheppard @oilsheppard.bsky.social Financial Times Acting Whitehall Editor. Former FT Energy Editor, but still dabbles in what makes the world go round. Ex-Reuters.
Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social Professor of Economics 
Julie Lawrence MBE @julie-lawrence.bsky.social Post Graduate Researcher, QMUL
Former Director, The Labour Party 1998-2018
Chair, Chippenham Labour Party
Executive Member, Labour Movement for Europe
Loves Wiltshire
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Tommy Stubbington @tomstub.bsky.social Markets news editor @financialtimes.com
@chimpman.bsky.social @chimpman.bsky.social What is this place?
Silvia Merler @smerler.bsky.social Head of Policy Research - Algebris Investments
Non-Resident Fellow - Bruegel Think Tank
Adjunct Lecturer - Johns Hopkins SAIS
Views obviously my own
Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social Professor of Political Science who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs.
Author of Power of the Badge: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
Helen Warrell @helenwarrell.bsky.social FT investigations. Previously defence & security editor, political and home affairs correspondent. Get in touch: helen.warrell@ft.com
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
kadhim @kadhim.bsky.social head of investigations @ financial times / email: kadhim@ft.com / signal: @kadhim.01
Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social Financial Times tech correspondent writing on social media - X, Meta, TikTok, Telegram - plus some AI, cyber and misinformation.
🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. DMs open.
Tips to: 📨hannah.murphy@ft.com
Signal: mshannahmurphy.04
John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com Explainers editor at the Financial Times. Usual caveats apply. Clips: https://www.ft.com/john-reed
Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social FT features writer, focus on work/workplace/whatevs
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Brooke Masters @brookeamasters.ft.com US Managing Editor of the Financial Times