Jake Benford @jbenford-berlin.bsky.social Europe in a geopolitical world @Bertelsmann Stiftung in Berlin. Interested in EU external partnerships, Germany’s Europe & foreign policy, UK politics and society, EU-UK relations
Meryl O'Rourke @merylorourke.bsky.social Comediatrix.
Words on New World Order, BAFTA win Farewell 2 The Monarchy. My play- Thrown By Giants- artsdepot residency '24.
Too many opinions to possibly be all mine. Jewish/Irish ish
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
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social Professor of Health Economics & Decision Modelling. SCHARR, University of Sheffield
#healtheconomics
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smph/people/population-health/alan-brennan
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alan-brennan-1445392b
Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social Writer, journalist, researcher, trade unionist
Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social Liberal internationalist 🇪🇺 feminist, antiracist & LGBTQ+ ally. Yorkshire/London. Ex LibDem MEP. LD Friends of Cycling/Primary Care WG. Works in health policy. ❤️s running, cooking, cycling & yoga. Mum of 1. Dual 🇬🇧/🇩🇪 citizen (personal account)
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news polling aggregation and data-driven journalism from the former research team of fivethirtyeight. https://www.FiftyPlusOne.news
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Alison McGovern @allymcgovern.bsky.social Labour MP for Birkenhead, Minister of State.
Progressive.
www.alisonmcgovern.org.uk
Yvette Cooper MP @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social Labour MP for Pontefract, Castleford, Knottingley & Altofts
Clean Up The Internet @cleanuptheinternet.org.uk Independent, UK-based organisation concerned about the degradation in online discourse and its implications for democracy.
@internetclean on that other site...
www.cleanuptheinternet.org.uk
Cassie 🌸 @beverleycassie.bsky.social Just a human at sea ⚓😎
OOW Unlimited
2nd Officer
80 countries
@clubathletica /CAS-SEA10
🚢🌊☀️🌎
Exploring life one step at a time. Kindness, growth, and real conversations matter to me
@ucl-targ.bsky.social @ucl-targ.bsky.social UCL Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group (UTARG)
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social Historian, writer, immigrant, FRHistS, podcaster, right eyebrow raiser; UK political finance & global private members’ clubs; http://linktr.ee/sathevoz; Latest book: ‘London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious'. clubland.substack.com
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Husband, father and Mayor of the greatest city in the world. He/Him.
@rjdoylesw2.bsky.social @rjdoylesw2.bsky.social 
The Downballot @the-downballot.com The premier source of information for the thousands of elections below the presidency, from Senate to city council.
Our site: http://the-downballot.com/
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
Cara Ruggiero, PhD, RD, LDN @cararuggiero.bsky.social Research Associate @ Cambridge
UD>PSU>Harvard>Cambridge
Family systems, interventions, and policies to address obesity and food insecurity
Opinions my own
Dr Tom Riddington @drtomriddington.bsky.social Doctors in Unite rep to GPCE, GPCUK
Clapham Park Labour Councillors @claphamparklab.bsky.social 🦋 feed for the Labour & Co-operative councillors for Clapham Park 🌹🐝
Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social Professor & Chair of Global Public Health, Edinburgh Uni. Certified Level 3 Personal Trainer. Views own.
Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social Head of Policy, Progs and Media at AdviceUK. Former Dep Director at Women’s Budget Group, interim CEO and Dep Director of The Runnymede Trust & CEO of Equality Trust. Worked across Government and on national Commissions. Views my own.
Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social Whitehall Editor for the Observer & chief investigative reporter for BBC R4's The Naked Week. Politics, investigations and taramasalata
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
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
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
Dan Paskins @danpaskins.bsky.social Save the Children UK Exec Director - UK Impact
Vice-Chair, End Child Poverty
Chair, Civic Power Fund
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
Patrick Butler @patrickjbutler.bsky.social Social Policy editor, The Guardian. Winner of the Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism 2025.
Avnee@IPPR @avneem.bsky.social Associate Director of Public Services at IPPR. Working to mainstream progressive policy. Views are my own! 
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 
Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things" • dylan.difford@yougov.com
Decision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social Fast and reliable results and analysis for elections at every level, from federal to local. Find out more: https://linktr.ee/decisiondeskhq
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
BHF Policy @bhfpolicy.bsky.social Posts from The BHF's policy and public affairs team, influencing change so that we can beat heartbreak forever.
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
David Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social Ex-Foreign Office adviser to Robin Cook. Politics, foreign policy, football. Scottish 🏴. Firmly left. HMFC🇱🇻MUFC🇾🇪.
Steve Cockburn @stevecockburn.bsky.social Amnesty International. Sport, human rights, workers rights, inequality. NUFC.
Sharon Hodgson MP @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Washington and Gateshead South🌹
If you would like to contact me, please email sharon.hodgson.mp@parliament.uk
ivorsmallhook @t3rfh.bsky.social Musician/poet/studio/guitar/keyboards/ex-Secondary English Teacher.
Sunderland. UK.
NO DM's
Thank you for your attention to this nutter.
Deepak Sardiwal @deepaksardiwal.bsky.social Lambeth resident - Herne Hill and Loughborough Junction. 🎾🌶️☕️☀️🇮🇳🌹
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social 🖋️ Comms and journalism, scribble-bibble mostly in the West Mids 🏭🌾, often in London 💂♂️. Grassroots politics, society, culture, media, history, walking, SMEs & social enterprise, global UK, cheap eats from Kingswinford-Kings Cross 🪢👑
@housepixies.bsky.social @housepixies.bsky.social 
Jamie O'Halloran @jamie-ohalloran.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at IPPR | PhD from University of Southern Denmark | Labour market, inequalities and health | Views are my own
@annasophiegross.bsky.social @annasophiegross.bsky.social 
Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social The image that I run from
Only seems to follow me
Food Standards Agency @foodgov.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the Food Standards Agency, covering England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Making sure food is safe, what it says it is, healthier and more sustainable.
https://www.food.gov.uk/
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies @obshealth.bsky.social The Observatory is a WHO Europe-hosted partnership supporting evidence-informed health policy-making across Europe.
Website: https://eurohealthobservatory.who.int
Subscribe: tinyurl.com/SubscribeOBS
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/
Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social @FinancialTimes.com science editor. Ex-Nigeria, UAE, Thailand, Belgium & Japan. Latest book: What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except the British) - https://linktr.ee/whateveryoneknowsaboutbritain. Author of The Fabulists and A Swamp Full of Dollars.
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
Gavin Shuker @gavinshuker.bsky.social The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for. We should be kind while there is still time. Master of carbs cookery.
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
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
Kent Buse @kentbuse.bsky.social Prof of Health Policy. Co-CEO of #GlobalHealth5050. Ex Chief Strategy #UNAIDS. #HealthySocieties #Sourdough baker. Bereft of canine companion.
Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social Managing editor @votebeat.org. Previously senior editor and senior elections analyst at FiveThirtyEight. Email, don't DM: nrakich at votebeat dot org
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Nick Scott @nickscott.digital Work on (responsible) AI and digital in trade unions, think tanks and non-profits.
Director of Centre for Responsible Union AI ( @unions21.org ) + Freelance Consultant
Home = family + seaside living in a town near Barcelona.
Any views I do share are mine.
Leonora Merry @leonoramerry.bsky.social Director of Comms & External Affairs at Nuffield Trust (@nuffieldtrust.org.uk). Advisory Group, Science Media Centre. Co-founder WonkComms (https://bsky.app/profile/wonkcomms.bsky.social). Mum of 👧🧒 👦. SE Londoner. Views: mine!
Nicole Sykes @nicolesykes.bsky.social Charities, charts, cats.
Director of Strategy, Impact and Innovation at Lloyds Bank Foundation. She/her🏳️🌈
Lewis Tibbs @lewistibbs.bsky.social Digital Communications Manager @suttontrust.bsky.social 💻 Interested in politics, policy and regional inequality. Dancing nerd. Northerner and perpetually suffering Man United fan. Views my own!
John Pollock @johnpollock.bsky.social Communications for Chatham House (@chathamhouse.org) | Writer @theworldtoday.org | Think tanks and higher education | Posts on international affairs/security | China | Views my own.
Rowan Dennison @rowandennison.bsky.social Deputy Director of Communications at Nuffield Trust, a health and social care think tank. I live in Bristol. Mostly talking health policy or politics here, but music nerdery or nature gawkery also warmly welcomed
Rowan Deer, PhD @rowandeer.bsky.social Freelance Copyeditor | Writer | Mindbody Medicine Coach
📍Berlin
she/her
Daniel Wigglesworth @dwigglesworth.bsky.social Head of Digital Products @jrf-uk.bsky.social
Jamie Perez @jamiegp.bsky.social STATIONS co-founder. Digital Communications at the Annie E. Casey Foundation https://bsky.app/profile/annieecaseyfdn.bsky.social formerly CAP
@americanprogress.bsky.social
Powered by tacos. Lives and believes in Baltimore.
Opinions all my own.
Mark Dayan @markgdayan.bsky.social Nuffield Trust head of public affairs and particularly nerdy about medicine policy, Brexit, NHS plans, and the Scottish and Northern Irish health systems. Edinburgh to Crystal Palace
Rocky Lorusso @rockylorusso.bsky.social Head of Comms & Public Affairs at the Sutton Trust. All views my own.
Charlotte Prothero @charlotteprothero.bsky.social Posting about politics, children's wellbeing, housing, loneliness and civil society.
Bad grammar and views my own.
Hannah Corbett @hannahcthinks.bsky.social Research-led storytelling, charities, social enterprise, civil society, wellbeing economy, leadership, AI, inequality, social justice. Head of Communications at the Nuffield Foundation.
Grace Thompson @graciet.bsky.social People-focused engagement pro and sporadic blogger. UK Public Affairs Lead at The Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade. Love all things trade policy and social justice; UK chair of Gap Kenya
https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-h-thompson-
Matthew Fielding 🌻 @mafielding.bsky.social Head of Communications, Learning & Impact @SEI.org
Working at the intersection of strategy, organisational change and research impact.
Focused on science–policy–practice pathways.
#neurodiverse 🇺🇦 🏴
Nata Druhak @natadruhak.bsky.social Ukrainian in Berlin | Comms for Social Change, Public & Cultural Diplomacy | Comms at Ukrainian Institute in Germany | Study at UdK Berlin | ex. ukraine.ua
Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social American labor history / Jewish studies / digital humanities
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
UC-AFT Comms crew
memorywork.irle.ucla.edu
carolineluce.com
Joe Verruni @verruni.bsky.social comms strategy | energy policy
Ali Bailey @alibailey.bsky.social Director of communications and public engagement at the Francis Crick Institute.
www.crick.ac.uk
Kester @kesterbrewin.com Writer, and Associate Director at the Institute for the Future of Work. Views my own. Latest book, God-like: a 500-Year History of AI, is out now. All my books: http://www.kesterbrewin.com
Penelope Gibbs @penelopegibbs.bsky.social My passion is to improve UK justice. Lead charity www.transformjustice.org.uk (email there). Also visiting fellow
https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/ and chair www.appropriateadult.org.uk
Amy Clancy @amyclancy.bsky.social Comms for social justice │ Strategy, storytelling & design | Consultant @neweconomics.bsky.social & others │ Associate @Abundance-org.bsky.social │ Printmaker & Arts Advocate | Barcelona & NW England
Nicole Johnson @nicolevjohnson.bsky.social Comms Manager @powertochange.org.uk
🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧. Midlands based. UNC Chapel Hill and Georgetown SFS alumn. Still learning how to make the perfect cuppa. She/her.
Steven Bliss @stevenbliss.bsky.social SF Bay Area. Communications Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Cleveland native, longtime Californian.
Catherine Foot @csfoot.bsky.social Advocating for a fairer social contract around work, pensions and retirement. Director of UK think tank the Standard Life Centre for the Future of Retirement.
https://www.standardlife.co.uk/centre-for-the-future-of-retirement
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social Singer, reader, cook, climber, liberal, feminist, bike rider, outdoors person.
Policy wonk in search of a better world.
Born at 355ppm
Sean Canty @seancanty.bsky.social Media contact for Centre for Cities. Posts about UK urban policy, what the media are saying about it and what the Government is doing about it.
📌 London
🙋♂️ He/him
Nick Mann @nick-mann.bsky.social Director of Comms at Prison Advice and Care Trust. Interested in anything politics, criminal justice and charity. Camberwell, SE London.
www.prisonadvice.org.uk
Katy Oglethorpe @katoglet.bsky.social People. Podcasts. Books. Bombay Mix.
Director of Communications @wearenewlocal.bsky.social 
Ross Haig @rosshaig.bsky.social Creative director at @digacomms.bsky.social. I like a pop tune and a good font. Former fact checker/think tank alum