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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Policy Camp @policycamp.bsky.social An open space for people across government and beyond to shape better policy together.
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
INDIGNITY pre-orders: https://linktr.ee/leaypi
Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social historian of modern science and technology 
Sue Charles @suecharles.bsky.social BBC Wales journalist, weather presenter and DJ. Former TV newsreader and music reporter for Radio 1 and 2. Posts from me...not the BBC.
#LostInMusic
Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Writer, poker player and accidental quiz show host.
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
YouGov @yougov.co.uk YouGov gathers real opinions and behaviours from worldwide panel members to power insights into what the world thinks. Join now: https://account.yougov.com
Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social CEO of the Institute for Government
Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm.bsky.social Channel 4 News, Unreported World, Ways to Change the World, The Fourcast, Class of 2023 on Strictly
Also Chairman of Duchenne UK
ITV News (Official) @itvnews.bsky.social Original news from across the UK and around the world. Available on ITVX 24/7. National news: ITV1 weekdays at 1:30pm, 6:30pm and 10pm. Regional news: ITV1 weekdays at 6pm.
Website: https://www.itv.com/news
Newsletter: https://itvnews.substack.com
John Curtis @johncurtis.bsky.social Senior Researcher/Clerk at the House of Commons Library, researching Asia, Americas and the NI Protocol. War Studies alumnus. Follow for tepid takes on uncontroversial subjects.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
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
Apolitical @apolitical.bsky.social Making governments smarter, to deliver for people and the planet | Join 500,000+ public servants & policymakers today: http://apolitical.co/signup
Deborah Meaden @deborahmeaden.bsky.social Investor, TV Dragon, Planet Hugger and admirer of many things.
Lauren Laverne @laurenlaverne.bsky.social Broadcaster. Slow eater, fast reader.
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) 📗 NO FRIEND TO THIS HOUSE: OUT NOW. Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
Richard Coles @richardcoles.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, musician, priest.
ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science
Stephen Fry @stephenfry.bsky.social Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social I am not writing a bio.
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Adrian Edmondson @adrianedmondson.bsky.social Berserker!
Out now from all good bookshops, and bad ones, and ones in between.
Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com Founded MoneySavingExpert, @moneyandmentalhealth.org, (ish) the Martin Lewis Money Show ITV & Martin Lewis Podcast
Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social Financial journalist, broadcaster, and speaker. Seek the truth, find the truth, tell the truth. Unequivocally for free speech & press. Wilkie Collins expert too
John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social BBC lifer since 1966, international affairs editor since 1982. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on BBC Two, BBC World & World Service. Two daughters, one son, six grandchildren, a loving wife, lots of books, and an Irish terrier. Defender of the Oxford comma.
BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Welcome! Find us weekdays 10:30pm on BBC Two, BBC News, iPlayer with Victoria Derbyshire, Paddy O'Connell & Matt Chorley - plus Katie Razzall, Nicholas Watt and Faisal Islam
Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
Bob Mortimer @bobmort.bsky.social 
Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
Angela Barnes @angelabarnes.bsky.social "Comedian"
Mock The Week, QI, Live at The Apollo, HIGNFY
Host of The Archers Live at 75 tour - https://www.fane.co.uk/the-archers
Cold War and Mid Century Modernist nerd.
The Archers obsessive
Prone to inexpert F1 ramblings.
Swims. Naps. Bunkers.
Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social New book THE CASTLE can be preordered now! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them Jonronson.com
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social Co host @thenewsagents .
Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
Sarah Millican @sarahmillican.bsky.social Latest special Late Bloomer is on Netflix (not UK & IRE) & Channel4.com (UK & IRE) now.
Also part of the Standard Issue podcast team
Replies ending TSM are by my team.
https://linktr.ee/thesarahmillican
Dave Gorman @davegorman.bsky.social 36hrs of TV stand-up on youtube: https://youtube.com/@davegorman235/ I also set crosswords. Bluth in the Indy, Fed in the Graun, Django in the Telegraph
Davegorman.com
Marcus Brigstocke @marcusbrig.bsky.social An absolute thundering great berk.
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social You know... the weird one.
Edgar Wright @edgarwright.bsky.social Spaced / Shaun Of The Dead / Hot Fuzz / Scott Pilgrim Vs The World / The World’s End / Baby Driver / The Sparks Brothers / Last Night In Soho / The Running Man
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social DC Studios co-CEO, #Superman, #GuardiansoftheGalaxy, #Peacemaker, dog owner, husband, servant to my cat.
Mike Newbury @michaenewbury.bsky.social Director at National Audit Office covering financial audits and leading the Local Audit Code and Guidance Team. Also Tynwald Assistant Auditor General. Public audit is my thing but I do other stuff too …
Mia Leslie @mialeslie.bsky.social Researcher at the Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.bsky.social | previously Public Law Project
Stephen Holden Bates @stephenholdenbates.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Birmingham, UK.
Luke Murphy MP @lukemurphy.bsky.social First ever Labour MP for Basingstoke 🌹 Promoted by R Kellaway, on behalf of Luke Murphy, both at Basingstoke Labour Club, Sandys Rd, Basingstoke, RG22 6AS
Bobby Duffy @bobbyduffy.bsky.social Director, Policy Institute at King's College London and Chair of the Campaign for Social Science
Karl Pike @karlpike.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Queen Mary University of London. Book: Getting Over New Labour.
Kirsty Weakley @kirstyweakley.bsky.social Journalist for Local Government Chronicle
Charlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social Labour MP for Warrington North 🌹
Jewish, book worm, happiest outdoors
Email: charlotte.nichols.mp@parliament.uk
King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership @giwlkings.bsky.social Working towards a world in which women of all backgrounds have fair and equal access to leadership. Based at Kings College London. Chaired by Julia Gillard.
Humanists UK @humanists.uk We advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.
Derek Alton @derekalton.bsky.social Community Insights Lead for Apolitical by day, Civic Punk by night. Passionate about helping make government work better. Obsessed with all things digital/open government and Public Sector Reform. Community Insights Lead for Apolitical 
Dr Emma Kell @thosethatcan.bsky.social Teacher, coach, writer, speaker, pragmatist. Specialisms: staff wellbeing, teacher retention.
TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ZEoYM3zHw
My website: https://www.those-that-can.com/
Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump 
Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
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 
Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social Proud Milton Keynesian and Labour MP for MK North. Can't spell, views my own.
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player. 
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
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social 
Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social MP for Birmingham Yardley
Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social Visiting Professor at Kings College London. Pollster, social researcher, trends and futures. Ex CEO of Ipsos globally and in UK (2009-2025) FMRS, FacSS etc
The Traitors UK @thetraitors.bsky.social Fan account related to #TheTraitors. Follow us for updates, behind the scenes, news, memes and more. Series one available now on iPlayer. 🔥🗡️
The Traitors @oficialthetraitors.bsky.social 
Tim Minchin @timminchin.bsky.social Songwriter singer pianist actor writer comedian producer speaker poet wanker reader runner worrier.
https://linktr.ee/timminchin
Posts on this account are posted for me by my webfairy, Shell🧚♀️
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.- E @emmastace.bsky.social @emmastace.bsky.social
Gethin Jones @getjo.bsky.social AFK
David Durant @bowsy.co.uk I've been in the gov tech and transformation communitiy since 2009. I've worked for mySociety, the GLA, HackIT and GDS. I'm on the committees for GovCamp, Policy Camp, TransformGov Talks, the National Strategy Project and the UK Polyamory Association.
Tom Wells @tomwells.bsky.social Work for UK govt chief science adviser on tech and foresight. Former green chemist, science & media advisor, and science diplomat. All views personal.
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Jerry Fishenden @ntouk.bsky.social Technologist, writer, composer. Government advisor. FIET & WGGB. London & Lerwick. Blogging at https://ntouk.wordpress.com. Latest book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F23N7WSS
Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social Chief Digital Officer for London, working for Mayor of London and all Londoners. Using #data to support a fairer, safer and greener city for everyone #cities #innovation #smartcities https://medium.com/@chiefdigitalofficer4london
WhatDoTheyKnow @whatdotheyknow.bsky.social Make and explore UK #FreedomOfInformation requests. A transparency project from @mysociety.bsky.social. For help http://whatdotheyknow.com/help/contact
@opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net Free thinking for the world 🌍 We're an independent media organisation. Find us > opendemocracy.net Also at @openDemocracy@newsie.social for those who toot too.
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
Full Fact @fullfact.org Full Fact is the UK's independent fact checking charity. We put reliable evidence at the heart of public debate so you can make sense of what matters.
www.fullfact.org
Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social Advancing trust in data.
DSIT Answers @dsit-answers.bsky.social Bot account posting whenever the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology answers or corrects an answer to a written parliamentary question. Monitored by librarians in the House of Commons Library
@transformgovtalks.bsky.social @transformgovtalks.bsky.social