Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
@stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Arthur Webber 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social Children’s author, mediocre footballer, internet transgender || he/him #COYG
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
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
Tim Shipman @shippersunbound.bsky.social Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)
Alec Stapp @alecstapp.bsky.social Co-founder IFP
Caleb Watney @calebwatney.bsky.social Co-founder IFP // scientific, technological, and industrial progress
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
Julia Willemyns @jujulemons.bsky.social Founder @ukdayone.bsky.social, working to put the UK at frontier of progress + achieve the highest living standards in the world
Adam Kovacevich @adamkovac.bsky.social Founder and CEO, Chamber of Progress. Pro-tech Democrat. Ex: Google, Lime.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com Author of "How to Win a Trade War"
FT econ columnist
Host of The Economics Show w/ Soumaya Keynes podcast
Singer-songwriter https://www.instagram.com/soumayakeynes/?hl=en and http://bit.ly/2Z6gvjp
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving.
Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev
Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co
🏳️🌈
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social Economist and occasional politics dabbler. Working on a project to improve labour markets. Associate fellow, Centre for European Reform. Visiting fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Bath University.
Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament, Bristol North West
Lucy Rigby MP @lucyrigby.bsky.social Chief Secretary to the Treasury 🇬🇧 | Labour MP for Northampton North | For casework, please contact lucy.rigby.mp@parliament.uk
Sam Bowman @sambowman.co Editor of www.worksinprogress.co and head of publishing at Stripe. Just here to have fun.
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
JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social
Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social Policy thoughts: http://timleunig.substack.com Chief Economist Nesta, Director Econ PublicFirst, Vis Prof LSE Sch Public Policy, Vis Fellow Inst for Govt
Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social Writing for The Economist—mostly on the US economy, with occasional forays elsewhere. Recreational Britain-watcher. Previous lives in macro investing and polling.
Substack at: https://notes.archie-hall.com/
Sam Dumitriu @samdumitriu.bsky.social Head of Policy at Britain Remade.
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: editor, indevelopmentmag.com; writer, laurenpolicy.com.
Sam Alvis @samalvis.bsky.social South West native, currently co-lead economy & climate team @IPPR - (views mine)
Industrial strategy | Bazball | @BristolBears
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social "Former energy czar" - the Guardian. "Energy big brain" - Politico.
Anton Howes @antonhowes.bsky.social Historian of invention. www.ageofinvention.xyz
Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social Strategy Fellow, Global Health & Wellbeing at Coefficient Giving. Views my own
Stian Westlake @stianwestlake.bsky.social Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council. Metascience, evidence, data infrastructures, economic growth.
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social Economics, politics, boxing. Tech @ TBI. "optimistic & ambitious for British tech". ex-ADS, JLR, MakeUK, SMF, Brookings. Views my own.
Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social Director of Strategy @re-state.bsky.social, Founder http://greaterlondon.co, Columnist in CityAM. ex Treasury. Views my own
Dan Aldridge MP @danaldridgemp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare
Please do not contact me regarding case work in my DM. Please email daniel.aldridge.mp@parliament.uk
https://linktr.ee/danaldridgemp
Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian.
Shreya Nanda @shreyagnanda.bsky.social @islington-labour.bsky.social councillor for Hillrise. @yimbylabour.bsky.social co-chair. @smfthinktank.bsky.social senior fellow. Views regrettably my own.
Gordon McKee MP @gordonmckee.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Glasgow South and eternal optimist.
Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social Director of Policy and Research at Centre for Cities, working on Housing, Planning, Devolution. Stuff on Ukraine + Eastern Europe and Japan + East Asia too. YIMBY. Views own etc. 🥑🇺🇦
Marley Miller @marleygmiller.bsky.social Designing new ways to get affordable housing built, Thriving investments. Former economic adviser to Rachel Reeves and Treasury official.
Dan Tomlinson MP @dantomlinson.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Chipping Barnet. Exchequer Secretary & Growth Minister in HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office.
🥑🗽🏗🏘️ Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O @gaylussite.himbonomics.com 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴. Analytics engineer by day, ageist queer by night.
Long form posts on housing, urbanism and progress: www.himbonomics.com
🧩
John Myers @johnrmyers.bsky.social Director @yimbyalliance.org • Housing and other infrastructure • yimbyalliance.org
Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan @rossaokod.bsky.social Research @ Open Philanthropy. Formerly economist at GPI / Nuffield College, Oxford.
Interests: development econ, animal welfare, global catastrophic risks
Sanjush Dalmia @sanjushdalmia.bsky.social Science and Technology Policy | Fellow @britishprogress.org | Member @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social | NHS Doctor and Medical Researcher
Prev: Science Policy Advisor to Labour, Science Policy Lead at UK Day One
Manchester / Leeds
Elliot Jones @elliotmjones.bsky.social Research Scientist @ UK AI Security Institute
https://www.admonymous.co/elliot-jones
Jeremy Driver @jdriver89.bsky.social Head of Campaigns at Britain Remade
George McGowan @gjmcgowan.bsky.social
Freddie Poser @freddieposer.com Head of Product, Centre for British Progress | Director of Priced Out
Kane Emerson @kaneemerson.bsky.social Head of housing research @ YIMBY Alliance 🏡
@pedroserodio.com @pedroserodio.com
YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org Please follow to help end the housing crisis with local support • #YesInMyBackYard: the opposite of #NIMBY • http://yimbyalliance.org
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social henrydashwood.com
@cjaworrall.bsky.social @cjaworrall.bsky.social
Alistair Strathern MP @alistrathern.bsky.social Hitchin’s Labour MP | Standing up for our towns & villages.
Priced Out @pricedout.bsky.social The Campaign for Affordable House Prices
Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com Economics Commentator, Financial Times; Honorary Professor of Practice, UCL Policy Lab
Sign up to my central banks newsletter here https://ep.ft.com/newsletters/subscribe?newsletterIds=6501cc9ec6e3c91c18b0b9e6
Ben Southwood @bswud.bsky.social Founder and editor of Works in Progress magazine.
Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social Trade policy. Partner @ Flint Global. Associate fellow @ Chatham House.
I have a Substack: https://mostfavourednation.substack.com
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Rachel Edwards @underthenettle.bsky.social Fan of economic growth, fringe theatre, beautiful places, parties, the future. Working at worksinprogress.co & Stripe.
Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social
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.
Britain Remade @britainremade.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Britain Remade is a campaign to promote economic growth. We put forward practical solutions to the problems holding Britain back.
Join the Campaign at https://www.britainremade.co.uk/
Anastasia Bektimirova @anastasiabekt.bsky.social science & tech policy, government innovation
https://x.com/anastasiabekt
Anton Spisak @antonspisak.bsky.social Senior research fellow, Centre for European Reform. Likes good coffee, long runs, and the Paris Review.
William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social Research, technology and politics.
Newsletter https://bit.ly/3AELZDu
Foundations of AI https://bit.ly/3WiYJab
Law https://bit.ly/40YL1fU
Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social Pre-order TRADE WORLD! https://lnk.to/TradeWorldBook
Anna Valero @asvalero.bsky.social Professor in Practice and Growth Programme Director, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA (🇬🇧/acc) @mprinparr.bsky.social Kardashev City-State Builder • Founder @RomullusCompute @ReindustrialUK • Author • ran £165m RE dev pfolio • designd T3 compute•alum: Futureal @Gensler @UniofNottingham
John Van Reenen @johnvanreenen.bsky.social Ronald Coase School Professor LSE and Digital Fellow, MIT
Paul Graham @iampaulgraham.bsky.social
Chi Onwurah @chionwurah.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West. Chair of the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
Emily Fry @emilyfry.bsky.social Economic adviser.
Charlotte Pickles @charliepickles.bsky.social Director @re-state.bsky.social; all things State and public services.
Philip Salter @philipsalter.bsky.social Founder of The Entrepreneurs Network
CaSE @sciencecampaign.bsky.social Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) is the leading independent voice for UK R&D.
www.sciencecampaign.org.uk
ananyo.bsky.social @ananyo.bsky.social Chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences. 'The Man from the Future', on the unparalleled influence of John von Neumann, available everywhere.
Subscribe to my substack, Confections & Refutations https://ananyo.substack.com
Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk Same as @thomasforth on X. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
Maxwell Marlow @maxwellmarlow.bsky.social Director of Policy at the YIMBY Initiative • Director of Public Affairs at the Adam Smith Institute • 🏗️ Advisor to PricedOut • Co-Founder of Conservative YIMBY • views are mine • sapere aide
Paul Swinney @paulswinney.bsky.social Chief Economist at The Data City. Formerly of Centre for Cities. Posting mainly about economics.
Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social The Centre for Cities is an independent think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Laurel Boxall @laurelboxall.bsky.social Tech Policy @ Public First, prev Labour Together
Dig Hum @ Cambridge
English Lit @ Oxford
She/her
John Whitfield @johnwhitfield.bsky.social (Science) journalist and author.
Opinion editor, Research Professional News.
Books: Lost Animals; People Will Talk ; In the Beat of a Heart.
www.johnwhitfield.co.uk
Kir Nuthi @kirtinuthi.bsky.social A London-based policy wonk who loves to chat about AI + encryption. Currently technology trade association-ing. Bookbinder and yogi often found in wild near dogs, yoga mats, and/or art supplies. Smartphone-free.
Ross Mudie @rmudie96.bsky.social Researcher. Currently exploring England with @iconeighbours.bsky.social, former think tanker
Dan Turner @dtturner.bsky.social Sheffield-based researcher. Interested in regional growth, populism and political economy.
Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy, University of Manchester. Science & innovation policy, regional economic growth, polymer physics.
www.softmachines.org
Richard Ngo @richardngo.bsky.social What would we need to understand in order to design an amazing future? Ex DeepMind, OpenAI
Tom Harwood @tomhfharwood.bsky.social politics and policy
Tone Langengen @tonelangengen.bsky.social Senior climate and energy policy adviser at TBI