Sarah Dawood @sarahdawood.bsky.social Freelance journalist, editor and moderator | Formerly The New Statesman, Index on Censorship, Design Week | Words for The Guardian, Positive News, HR Magazine and more | All views my own etc etc
Words here: https://sarahdawood.journoportfolio.com/
Claire Murdoch CBE @clairecnwl.bsky.social Proud mum of two sons, 4 decades working NHS Mental Health / community services. Dog Lover, Registered MH nurse, HonDoc Middlesex Uni. Love my choir!
lawrencedunhill.bsky.social @lawrencedunhill.bsky.social Health Journalist & Policy Analyst.
Previously Bureau Chief at the Health Service Journal & Public Policy Fellow at Princeton University. Winner of British Journalism, BSME & MJA awards
Lynne Bowers @lynnebowers.bsky.social Health and Social Care; VCSE; Climate Adaptation; Social Justice; Starfish saver; Working with the good to make the world a better place.
Emily Graham @emilyagraham.bsky.social Migration and asylum policy. Plus often human rights & democratic participation. Trustee of Care Rights UK.
Dr Gavin Francis @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social Mostly analogue.
Finishing a book about mental health:
THE UNFRAGILE MIND, Feb '26 @ProfileBooks
contacts & events @ www.gavinfrancis.com
Simon Opher @simonforstroud.bsky.social Labour’s MP for Stroud and GP.
For help and support for constituents email me at simon.opher.mp@parliament.uk
Abusive/irrelevant comments may be hidden and those who post them blocked.
www.simonopher.org
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@micha-fc.bsky.social @micha-fc.bsky.social
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley
No Sacred Cows @nosacredcows.media We're starting a much needed and overdue debate about the future of mainstream politics – no holding back, no pulling punches.
Andrew Grey @asgrey.bsky.social I write about ethics, politics and healthcare.
I work in healthcare education, and I'm co-host of The Right Work podcast.
Here for all of the above + cats.
https://www.clippings.me/users/andrewgrey
Mo @momorgan.com Strategist, healthtech co-founder and charity trustee.
Co-founder at hellolumino.com building inclusive digital therapeutics. Current R&D: sovereign AI in health.
Trustee at bristolmind.org.uk
Dave West @ HSJ @davewwest.bsky.social Deputy Editor of Health Service Journal. News on the English health and care system, its policy, performance and leadership.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/dave-west/2231.contributor?page=1
Edward Ware @edwardware.bsky.social Head of Communications and Influencing at Money Advice Trust
Max Davie @maxdavie.bsky.social ADHD in every sense. Trustee and co-founder at ADHDUK. Paediatrician.
Writing about games and books at https://playandwords.substack.com/
He/him
Sue Marsh @suey2y.bsky.social Political soothsayer, now writing underclass.substack.com Used to write the Diary of a Benefit Scrounger @Suey2y on Twitter
Writing the stories of the people policy affects. Ranting, Polling and probably a bit of RuPaul
Peter Hyman @peterhyman.bsky.social Substack - Changing the Story. Former advisor to Tony Blair and Keir Starmer. Former headteacher.
Simon Jones @seimon76.bsky.social Wales • Sport • Music • Cardiff for my rugby • Wycombe Wanderers for my football• Views are mine, all mine!
Rosie Beacon @rosiebeacon.bsky.social Work for health AI start up. Formerly Re:State @re-state.bsky.social and Tony Blair Institute. Anne Boleyn mega fan. Usually less serious than this bio makes me sound
Juliet Stone @drjulietstone.bsky.social Research Fellow at CRSP, Loughborough University. Stats geek researching social policy and inequality, poverty, and living standards.
Natalie Bennett @nataliecbennett.bsky.social Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Health inequalities and advanced quant methods
Ben Clatworthy @benclatworthy.bsky.social Transport and Travel Correspondent @thetimes.com in London 👨🏻💻 Also on Times Radio 📻
Clare McNeil @claremcneil.bsky.social Chief Executive, Timewise | Co-founder, Workwhile | Associate Fellow and former Associate Director, IPPR
Jay Das-Munshi @jdasmunshi.bsky.social Professor of social and psychiatric epidemiology at IOPPN, KCL, and psychiatrist. Co-Director of a UKRI national consortium on improving population mental health (PHIUK).
Gemma Byrne @gemmabyrne.bsky.social Policy and Campaigns at Mind
Views are my own
Liz Sayce @lizsayce.bsky.social Originally a disability/ mental health policy person. Interested in what works for everyone to participate and connect. Board roles, independent review to government 2025. Views are mine
Richard @richd028.bsky.social
Aleisha Omeike @aleishao.bsky.social Trainee Researcher @ IPPR
Big on all things progressive politics...and Irn Bru 🏴🧡
Heather Buckingham @heather-buckingham.bsky.social Interested in everyone having enough and working out what it takes to bring that about – relationally, politically, and through business. Social Change Advisor at Trussell. Visiting lecturer at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness, Bayes Business School.
Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social Associate Director at Flint Global. Macro, financial services, digital assets. Views my own. Ex-BoE, Treasury. Big on sports, rugby referee, go Raiders. Bi and autistic.
Su-Min Lee @su-min-lee.bsky.social Principal Economist at London Economics @le-education.bsky.social | PhD University of Cambridge | Research on childcare, education, labour markets, data science | Personal views only
Andy MacNae MP @andymacnaemp.bsky.social Ex-mountaineer and dad.
MP for Rossendale and Darwen.
Likes, follows and comments do not imply endorsement.
@tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com
Ed Davie @eddavie.bsky.social Social and environmental determinants of health policy person
Kate @kate-ewing.bsky.social labour lawyer.
Sarah Dorrington @sarahdorrington.bsky.social Clinical Lecturer Kings College London. Mental health, women’s health, disclosure, conflict and work.
Simon Collerton @scollerton.bsky.social Policy Research Assistant at Citizens Advice - All views are my own
Akiko Hart @akikohart.bsky.social Director of @libertyhq.bsky.social | Professor in Practice @durhamimh.bsky.social | Trustee @pbe.co.uk | Views all mine | she/her
Emma Norris @emmanorris.bsky.social Deputy CEO @ippr.org. Chair of Young Women’s Trust. Former deputy and now senior fellow @instituteforgovernment.org.uk. Think tanker. Westminster watcher. Progressive. Walthamstow resident. 🏳️🌈
@jedboard.bsky.social @jedboard.bsky.social
@kateandersen.bsky.social @kateandersen.bsky.social
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/
Debbie Abrahams MP @debbieabrahamsmp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Oldham East and Saddleworth. Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee.
Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. Former NHS Trust Chair & PH academic. Tackling inequalities and fighting for fairness.
Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels
Unbelievable Britain - YouTube 🎧
BBC Newsnight 🎥 📱
And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧
BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner
Suzannah Young @suzannahyoung.bsky.social Policy Leader at National Housing Federation. Views my own. Repost not endorsement. May contain tea. #SupportedHousing #OlderPeoplesHousing #StartsAtHome #EndHomelessness #Healthandhousing
Saba Salman @sabasalman.com Journalist|editor|author
📚NEW BOOK Double Discrimination 2026
📚Made Possible 2020
👩🏽💻 https://sabasalman.com
✍🏽Private Eye|Guardian|Byline Times|Ed. Community Living
💜Chair @sibs.org.uk|Ambassador @ndtihello.bsky.social
🏛️FRSA @thersaorg.bsky.social
Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social Professor of economic geography at the University of Cambridge. Researches austerity, labour, debt, gender & sustainable regional economies. Keen gardener.
Ed Pemberton @epemberton.bsky.social Senior Policy Researcher, Citizens Advice. Currently researching health inequalities and their relationship to work, housing and debt. Recovering political economist. Views my own.
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
Julia Thrift @juliathrift.bsky.social People, places, public health
Lives in south London, interested in the world...
My own views, sometimes here: https://authory.com/juliathrift
Beki Langford @bekilangford.bsky.social Public health qualitative researcher. Interested in children and young people, mental health, obesity, weight stigma, inequalities, process evaluations and climate change.
Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com Substack: mjrobbins.com
Podcast: abundancepod.com
@julia-rt.bsky.social @julia-rt.bsky.social Welfare policy research @citizensadvice.bsky.social
All views my own
Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social Energy and transitioning from fossil fuels. Complex issues I try to shine a light on. Ex-UKAEA and Met Office, now working in community energy. Occasionally politics
Exeter, UK
Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social The political home for everyone who wants to be part of a much more equal, democratic and sustainable future. Powered by members.
https://linktr.ee/CompassOnline
Lise Butler @lisebutler.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Modern History at City, University of London. Interested in the history of the British left and futures past. Co-editor, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy
Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social Politics, economics, planet - I live in Essex, UK.
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 🧑💻
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social
Professor Lisa Scullion @lisa-scullion.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy
Academic Lead (Interim) Social Innovation Institute
University of Salford, UK
FAcSS
Zachary Leather @zackleather.resolutionfoundation.org Climate policy @resfoundation.bsky.social
Hannah Devlin @hannahdevlin.bsky.social Guardian science correspondent
Annabel Smith @annabel-smith.bsky.social Director, Growth and Reform Network. Working with places across UK for a more inclusive economy. New to Bluesky.
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
Anne Pardoe @annepardoe.bsky.social Head of Policy at Citizens Advice (consumer, debt and postal services)
Simon Fletcher @fletchersimon.bsky.social Former adviser to Labour leaders, former chief of staff to the Mayor of London. Director of winning Labour leadership campaigns. Socialist.
Political campaigns II writing and analysis II consultancy
https://linktr.ee/simonfletcher
Ben Beachy @ben-beachy.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Global Fund for a New Economy. Previously: White House Climate Policy Office, BlueGreen Alliance, Sierra Club, Public Citizen. Personal account.
New Local @wearenewlocal.bsky.social We're an independent think tank and network of councils with a mission to transform public services and unlock community power.
Find out more: https://www.newlocal.org.uk
Hannah Slater @hannahslateruk.bsky.social External Affairs Manager at Nationwide Foundation. Everybody needs a decent affordable home.
Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social Professor of Politics & Co-Director of the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, U.K. / British politics, representation, public sphere / author of How to Think About Politics (2025) and The Political Class (2018)
Prof Donna Hall @profdonnahall.bsky.social Thoughts & ideas 💡 on public service reform, big believer in the power of communities, former CEO Wigan Council #TheWiganDeal NED at Mutual Ventures #RadicalPlaceLeadership
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Vicki Ensor @v3ns0r.bsky.social Policy person at Mind. I like movies, cats and trees and have strong views on interiors. All views my own.
Charlotte Nicholls @charlotte10710.bsky.social Health policy & influencing at The Richmond Group of Charities, a coalition of 14 national health and care charities. Previously Stroke Association and Macmillan Cancer Support. All views my own.
Tyron @tyron.bsky.social Raise taxes, repair the country. Inspired by joy, Marcel Duchamp, Kelis, Mata Hari, and whatever sticks the landing on the bit.
Meg Pennell @meganpennell.bsky.social Working on UK Mental Health Policy @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Formally Mind and Save the Children
Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social I write the newsletter, Lines To Take, bringing you one big story of the day, every day.
Sign up for free: https://www.linestotake.com/
I like human rights and French cuisine.
The Autonomy Institute @autonomy-institute.bsky.social Independent research institute rethinking economies in an age of crisis.
Consultancy: helping firms run and evaluate shorter working week trials.
@emilykenway.bsky.social @emilykenway.bsky.social writer and sociologist / Orwell finalist book 'Who Cares' out now / PhD @EdinburghUni / Boards @neon_uk @nationaluglymug / Rep'd @rcwlitagency
@jemimaolchawski.bsky.social @jemimaolchawski.bsky.social Interim Exec Director for Social Change at Mind. Former CEO of the Fawcett Society. All views my own
Christopher Rocks @christopher-rocks.bsky.social Lead Economist and Head of Secretariat @HealthFdn HealthierWorkingLives. Views my own.
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Andy Bell @andybell-centremh.bsky.social Works at Centre for Mental Health
JillHemmington (Dr) @jillhemmington.bsky.social AMHP training/CPD; AMHP; Empowering Mental Health Act conversation; AMHP evidence-base; #PractitionerResearch; #AMHPResearch; #AMHPLeadsNetwork; #criticalamhp
Glenn Moore @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social Comedian, and nephew to three gorgeous uncles. Enquiries: CGagon@avalonuk.com
Glennmoorecomedy.com
YouTube.com/@buttonboyspodcast
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
Jaya Sood @jayasood.bsky.social NEF senior economist 🤓 former civil servant - HMT budget scorecard & DESNZ carbon budgets strategy ⚡
Philip Nye @philipnye.bsky.social Senior data scientist @instituteforgovernment.org.uk • Words and numbers on what the govt is up to, edu policy, doing data at a thinktank • Bilingual: 🐍/SQL • Sign up to the IfG newsletter: http://bit.ly/3xDINTz
Dr Jo Maher NHS GP @drjomaher.bsky.social GP partner Foundry PCN https://www.foundrypcn.co.uk
Trustee Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social
Husband @cwjoneschris.bsky.social
Former PACC Sheffield https://www.movemoresheffield.com
Stian Westlake @stianwestlake.bsky.social Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council. Metascience, evidence, data infrastructures, economic growth.
Tom Hill @tomhill.bsky.social Environmental economist | Stoicism | Wildlife Gardening | Deliberative democracy | Aspiring Hiccup | 🏳️🌈 (he/him) |
Gary Hartin @garyhfdtn.bsky.social Foundation Programme Manager at the Nationwide Foundation www.nationwidefoundation.org.uk
Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social Was @xinwenxiaojie on the app formerly known as Twitter, where I was allegedly a bot and "sell-out blue-check boba Asian", possibly simultaneously.
Hongkonger, South Londoner.
Teaching journalism at City St George's, University of London.
Ali Messer @freereed59.net History. Trad music. Teacher Education. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing
📒🕰🎓🗺 No DMs unless we talk irl.
https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/
https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
Naomi Clayton @naomiclayton.bsky.social Chief Executive at Institute for Employment Studies. Formerly Learning and Work Institute, What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth, Centre for Cities and Work Foundation.
Tom Chance @tomchance.bsky.social CEO of the Community Land Trust Network / Rhwydwaith Ymddiriedolaethau
Tir Cymunedol https://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk
Morgan Bestwick @morganbestwick.bsky.social