David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Imogen Shaw @imogenshaw.bsky.social Climate and Energy Transition lead at the Labour Climate and Environment Forum 🍃 London 🍃 Views my own
Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk Tech policy person. Have also written about tax and ramble about Doctor Who. He/they. Bi.
David Lawrence @davidlawrenceuk.bsky.social Shooting for UK growth & progress with @britishprogress.org
Previously: Chatham House research fellow and Labour parliamentary candidate.
Britain could have the highest living standards in the world!
Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com Substack: mjrobbins.com
Podcast: abundancepod.com
Zselyke Csaky @zecsaky.bsky.social Senior research fellow CER @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social. Mostly EU stuff, sprinkled with some democracy & Central Europe. Past lives Freedom House, EUI, Bloomberg.
@ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social
Nick Trickett @ruboyinthehood.bsky.social
Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social Known for other things but mainly use this to talk about video games to be honest with you.
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/
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. Accusations of bad faith or lying = block.
Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social Current affairs, politics, education and miscellany. All views my own.
Substack at edrith.co.uk
Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social Research Director at cross-party think tank @smfthinktank.bsky.social, prev @suttontrust.bsky.social. Expert on educational inequality/social mobility.
Trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social. MH campaigner in memory of mum. Views own. linktr.ee/beckymontacute
Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social Director of Research at ThinkLabour. Interested in politics and data. Interested in how people think about politics and data.
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Cambridge based.
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social Always ask yourself, what would Lord Diplock think?
https://spinninghugo.wordpress.com/
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things" • dylan.difford@yougov.com
Dom White @domw.bsky.social Chief economist at Absolute Strategy Research in London. But all of the nonsense I spout on here is mine and mine alone. RTs are not endorsements unless they are.
Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Freelance research/policy/advocacy/writing on all things Parliament and government. Associate at IfG and Associate at State of the Future.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social Lib Dem Life Peer. Party President 2020-5. Author, "Polling UnPacked" / http://www.theweekinpolls.co.uk / https://libdemnewswire.substack.com / imprint + privacy http://markpack.org.uk/legal-privacy / he/him
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
Subscribe on Substack: Arguably.uk
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
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.
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.
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
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
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Sienna Rodgers @siennarodgers.bsky.social Deputy editor of The House magazine in Parliament.
Charlie Cooper @charliecooper8.bsky.social Senior UK Energy Correspondent for POLITICO
Co-write daily Morning Energy & Climate UK newsletter
Get in touch: ccooper@politico.co.uk
Julian Jessop @julianhjessop.bsky.social Independent economist. Likes charts. IEA Economics Fellow. Schools speaker. Diploma in Law. FRSA. COYG. Views here mine only. More on website at www.julianhjessop.com. Also on substack at https://substack.com/@julianhjessop
Neal Hudson @resi-analyst.bsky.social UK housing market analyst. Personal account.
Analysis and commentary at https://builtplace.com/
Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School.
Columnist for FT Weekend’s Money.
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: yimbypod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social Official account for Britain’s leading independent economic research institute. https://ifs.org.uk/
Helen Miller @helenmiller.bsky.social Economist. Deputy Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, theifs.bsky.social
Mike Brewer @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social Deputy Chief Executive Resolution Foundation, CPAG Trustee & Visiting Prof in Practice at LSE Social Policy. 'Calm, Measured, Withering' http://tinyurl.com/y6wxlxhj). 'Cool, calm analysis' (More or Less, 8/10/25). He/him
Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford.org The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org)
Sam Dumitriu @samdumitriu.bsky.social Head of Policy at Britain Remade.
Ned Donovan @ndonovan.bsky.social Travelling and writing. Interested in history, health, and the prevention of crime.
John Myers @johnrmyers.bsky.social Director @yimbyalliance.org • Housing and other infrastructure • yimbyalliance.org
YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org Please follow to help end the housing crisis with local support • #YesInMyBackYard: the opposite of #NIMBY • http://yimbyalliance.org
Works in Progress @worksinprogress.bsky.social Works in Progress is an online magazine about new & underrated ways to improve the world. worksinprogress.co
🥑🗽🏗 Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O @gaylussite.himbonomics.com 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴
supply-side neo-erogenous growth theorist & generously provisioned analytics engineer with big tic energy
essentialist by nature; finding clarity in subtraction
long-form articles on housing, urbanism & progress: www.himbonomics.com
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Ben Southwood @bswud.bsky.social Founder and editor of Works in Progress magazine.
Anya Martin @anyamartin.bsky.social Housing affordability wonk & number cruncher. Policy Lead @ YIMBY Alliance. Former director of PricedOut.
Rachel Edwards @underthenettle.bsky.social Fan of economic growth, fringe theatre, beautiful places, parties, the future. Working at worksinprogress.co & Stripe.
Michael Dnes @roadscholar.bsky.social Head of transport policy at Stonehaven consulting. Ex-civil servant who used to play with roads, trains, e-scooters, parking apps and a lot of government plumbing. May have made your driving test harder, and threw some cones in your way at least once
Duncan Stott 🏗️🇺🇦 @duncanstott.bsky.social Geeky YIMBY liberal
Housing, politics, liberalism and growth
Oxford UK
Only lurking here for now
Ben Hopkinson @hopkinsonben.bsky.social Head of Research at Britain Remade
Jeremy Driver @jdriver89.bsky.social Head of Campaigns at Britain Remade
Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social Director of Strategy @re-state.bsky.social, Founder http://greaterlondon.co, Columnist in CityAM. ex Treasury. Views my own
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 🏡
Sam Bowman @sambowman.co Editor of www.worksinprogress.co and head of publishing at Stripe. Just here to have fun.
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
Kate Barker @katemb.bsky.social Erstwhile economist, Stoke City supporter. #madeinstoke
Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social Professor of the Political Economy of Europe at LSE. Interested in democratic representation and inequality, worried about the survival of democracy. Author of Anti-System Politics (OUP, 2020). Also random thoughts on football, cycling, the weather etc
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social "Former energy czar" - the Guardian. "Energy big brain" - Politico.
G F Rose @gfrose.bsky.social Gardener of thoughts and things. Into cooking, music, art, architecture, politics, sewing, and life drawing. Avid reader—especially fiction by women.
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
Centre for British Progress @britishprogress.org The Centre for British Progress is a non-partisan think tank on a mission to accelerate and shape an era of British growth and progress; evolved from @ukdayone.bsky.social.
Website: https://britishprogress.org/
Patrick King @patrickking.bsky.social Working in AI policy, ex-think tanker. Views my own.
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
South Gloucestershire Council @sgloscouncil.bsky.social The official South Gloucestershire Council Bluesky account.
Andrew Kersley @andrewkersley.bsky.social Investigative journalist at @londonermag.bsky.social - andrew@the-londoner.co.uk
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Previously freelance at Observer, Sunday Times, Mirror, Private Eye etc
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Charlotte Ivers @charlotteivers.bsky.social Sunday Times restaurant critic and staff writer
Tom Hamilton @tomhamilton.bsky.social Not all views my own. I disagree with lots of views.
Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman.bsky.social FT columnist. Also have podcast. Author of three and a half books. Four kids. Two cats. One wife. Numerous friends. Fulham fan.
Neil Henderson @hendopolis.bsky.social Cat slave and journalist
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
Robert Colvile @rcolvile.bsky.social Former boss of CPS think tank and CapX, Sunday columnist for The Times, author of 'The Great Acceleration'. Politics, policy and parenting.
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. 🥑🇺🇦
Jules Birch @julesbirch.bsky.social Journalist interested in anything connected with housing. Which means just about everything. Doctorate in housing since the financial crisis
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
Tom Wall @tomwall.bsky.social Journalist. News and investigations for the Guardian, BBC and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
✉️ t.wall@outlook.com
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Charlotte Pickles @charliepickles.bsky.social Director @re-state.bsky.social; all things State and public services.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
Chris Williamson @chris-williamson.bsky.social Posting from a personal capacity.
Theo Bertram @theobertram.bsky.social Director of the Social Market Foundation
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social Pre-order TRADE WORLD! https://lnk.to/TradeWorldBook
Megan Greene @economistmeg.bsky.social External MPC Member, Bank of England; Senior Fellow, Chatham House; Senior Fellow, Brown University; Red Sox fan. All opinions mine.
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
Henry Zeffman @hzeffman.bsky.social BBC Chief Political Correspondent
Instagram: @hzeffmanbbc
Patrick Maguire @patrickmaguire.bsky.social Chief political commentator, The Times
Adam Payne @adampayne26.bsky.social Editor of PoliticsHome. Sometimes heard on our weekly podcast, The Rundown. Contact me: adam.payne@politicshome.com & DMs.
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social Public policy editor based in the Britain section at The Economist
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
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
Tim Shipman @shippersunbound.bsky.social Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)