School for Social Entrepreneurs @the-sse.org We equip people to start, scale, and strengthen impactful organisations, with action-based and accessible courses, mentoring, and funding opportunities.
https://linktr.ee/SchSocEnt
The Young Foundation @theyoungfdn.bsky.social The UK's home for community research and social innovation. Also powering the Institute for Community Studies.
www.youngfoundation.org
Also on X and Threads
Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org IPPR is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
Find out more here: linktr.ee/IPPR
Michael Sanders @michael-sanders.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy and Director of Experimental Government, Policy Institute at King's. Director, School for Government at King's, Expert Advisor, Centre for Homelessness Impact. Chair, Nightline Association. Incorrigible Busybody. 
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 
Professor Anna Vignoles @annavignoles.bsky.social Director of the Leverhulme Trust and Fellow of British Academy. Formerly Professor of Education. All views are my own and retweets do not suggest endorsement.
Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Former minor twitter celebrity/hate figure. https://www.leonardocarella.com/
Karim Palant @karimpalant.bsky.social Founder of the ‘Globalisation in one country’ movement.
Economic policy and politics
Ex Facebook
Ex LinkedIn
Ex Labour Adviser
#efc… Posts are all my own views.
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social Brighton-dwelling World Trade Editor at the Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/peter-foster
Sometime Brexit nerd & author of 'What Went Wrong with Brexit' https://t.co/VsIipD7JBr
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
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social Economist
James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
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
Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Prospect Magazine; Principal Editor at Resolution Foundation
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
Subscribe on Substack: Arguably.uk
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
Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding, Polish roots. President of Demsoc.org
John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social Professor | Former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister | Director, Centre for English Identity and Politics | Writing about how ideas of nation and nationhood shape politics today at nationstateandpolitics.substack.com ✍️
Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social Day job: climate change, heat pumps, energy at Nesta
Other stuff: low-fi economics on growth, cities & economic geography, general UK policy, occasional basic charts
Bristol, he/him, lots of parenting / caring.
Personal account.
Emma Burnell @emmaburnell.bsky.social Editor of LabourList. Playwright. Cool aunt.
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social Chief Executive, Nuffield Foundation
Previous lives:
Chief Executive & Exec. Chair, Resolution Foundation
Founding Chair, Living Wage Commission
Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy at University of Manchester. Soon to be Birmingham.
Nick Pearce @iprnickp.bsky.social Prof Public Policy & Director, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath. Trustee at Foundations and HEPI. Chair, Living Wage Commission.
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
Toby Lloyd @tobylloyd.bsky.social Policy wonk, spad, consultant, writer, Londoner. Housing, urbanism and transport mainly.
Arianna Giovannini @ariannagiovannini.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology @uniurb. Former director and now Associate Fellow, @ipprnorth.bsky.social. Devolution/Territorial Politics/Regions/Local Government
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).
Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social Head of Policy, Campaigns & Public Affairs at Mind | NHS Mental Health Social Worker | Previously at NEF & DWP | Views expressed here my own
Katie Schmuecker @katieschmuecker.bsky.social Principal Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - UK poverty, social policy, politics, research and data. Occasionally crochet, gigs and nature
Neil Lee @neillee.bsky.social Professor of Economic Geography, LSE
George Dibb @georgedibb.bsky.social Assoc Director & Head of Centre for Economic Justice IPPR. Previously IIPP at UCL. Innovation is political. All things policy, politics & running. Views own. 🌈
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social Political economy & place‑based policy
Fellow of things at Teesside University
That's not Teesside in the banner photo
https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/nicholas-gray
Simon Kaye @stkaye.bsky.social Policy Director for @re-state.bsky.social. PhD from King's Political Economy. Localism, democracy, institutions, government. Ostrom stan.
Miatta Fahnbulleh @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Peckham
Minister for Devolution, Faith & Communities
Miatta.fahnbulleh.mp@parliament.uk
Roger Harding @rogerh.bsky.social Director of Round Our Way, a new org for people in the UK paying the price for climate change. Changing how this vital issue is discussed and who is in the debate.
Chair of the Economic Change Unit & Non-Exec Board member of the Future Governance Forum.
Ryan Swift @ryanswift93.bsky.social Research Fellow at IPPR North/IPPR - work on democracy, devolution, regional identity | PhD on the politics of Northernness
New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social Change the rules. Share the wealth. Protect the planet.
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social Social change, social care, social life.
Piali Das Gupta @pialidg.bsky.social Basically, I'm a lot about #localgov, public services, place, travel, art, culture, photography and London. And sometimes a little bit about Canada too. Migrant and citizen, at the same time.
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social Knowledge Transfer Facilitator @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk. Bridging research & policy on place-based policy, social infrastructure, regional growth, & devolution. #PolicySky #AcademicSky
Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. at the European Institute, LSE. Research and teach the political economy of the state; green transition; regenerative economics. Optimist. Alarmed by people who lack self-doubt...
Megan Corton Scott @mcortonscott.bsky.social deputy director of the Labour Climate and Environment Forum • all my own views
Nick Kimber @nick80.bsky.social Director of Public Service Reform at Cabinet Office. Seconded from Camden Council. Was a Policy Fellow at IIPP @ UCL; Policy Associate at Future Governance Forum
Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian.
Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social Doing relational things for London Borough of Camden. Social work doctoral researcher, Universiy of Northampton. Alumni, UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre. Views my own, said with love
Eve Holt @evefrancisholt.bsky.social #Manchester girl on #SocialJustice mission. Head of Policy & Implementation for GMCA & Mayor of GM. 🐝 Public policy, service & participation. System convening, navigation & change. Previously #GMMoving and Public Law Solicitor.
Chine McDonald @chinemcdonald.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, author, on faith, race, motherhood, and gender. Director of the Westminster-based religion and society think tank Theos.
Vice chair Greenbelt festival, trustee Christian Aid, Canon Theologian at Chester Cathedral
Huw Spencer @huwspencer.bsky.social Economic development practitioner and Policy Fellow at the Productivity Institute. Regional growth, democracy and industrial policy.
UCL Policy Lab @uclpolicylab.bsky.social Bringing extraordinary ideas and everyday experience together to tackle the challenges facing us all.
Melissa Mean @melissamean.bsky.social Regenerative neighbourhoods, social infrastructure, community-led housing, just transition.
All about making together. Land. Materials. People.
Founding Director WeCanMake; Trustee Power to Change; Director MAIA Group.
www.wecanmake.org
Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social Co - Founder @CIVIC_SQUARE, prev aka Impact Hub Birmingham || @TEDxBrum 2012 - 2017 || Hon Doc. @AstonUniversity ||
Anna Randle @annarandle.bsky.social Public service reform thinker & do-er. Until recently, CEO of Collaborate CIC. People, places, public service reform, local government, population health, system leadership.
Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
Subscribe here: https://renewal.org.uk/ 
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social i work for persuasion uk and i edit the journal "renewal"
Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop The party of the UK's co-operative movement, in partnership with The Labour Party. https://party.coop
Pete Whitehead @petewhitehead.bsky.social education policy guy. scouser. your favourite pintman's favourite pintman. views regrettably my own.
James Baggaley @jimbaggaley.bsky.social Comms and other stuff for UCL Policy Lab
Josh Westerling @joshwesterling.bsky.social Politics, campaigns, and public affairs at JRF - working on communities and place, and the labour market. Current home Bethnal Green, from Wycombe. West Ham ST holder. Views mine.
Paul Cotterill @bickerrecord.bsky.social Nurse by training. Vagabond by nature. Imposter by syndrome.
A Habermas-influenced English pluralist, if that's a thing. An organiser of things, which are definitely things.
He/him/ally
Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Manchester University. British politics, race and ethnicity, representation. 
Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social Prof. of Economic Geography and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. My work is on labour markets, migration, planning, and regional policy. I also love photography and baking, and have a crazy cocker spaniel called Fonzie.
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
The Future Governance Forum (FGF) @futuregovforum.bsky.social Transforming the state to renew the nation.
To stay updated, join our mailing list: https://futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/contact/
Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social Labour MP for Tipton, Wednesbury and Coseley. Member of the Business and Trade select committee. Proudly repping British industry and the Black Country. Trade unionist, mama, runner, reader
QTs closed, replies open
Jake Cohen @sjakeco.bsky.social Policy, ecosystems, low-brow cultural commentary and terminally online humour.
Currently at UCL Policy Lab, recovering civil servant 🇬🇧🇿🇦🏳️🌈
Heather Rolfe @heather-rolfe.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @britishfuture.bsky.social
Mostly interested in immigration, employment, migrants’ new lives in UK and public attitudes
Alison McGovern @allymcgovern.bsky.social Labour MP for Birkenhead, Minister of State.
Progressive.
www.alisonmcgovern.org.uk
Imogen Walker @imogenwalker.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Hamilton and Clyde Valley
Email: imogen.walker.mp@parliament.uk
Website: www.imogenwalker.co.uk
Andrew Pakes MP @andrewpakes.bsky.social Labour & Co-operative MP for Peterborough 
Claire Ainsley @claire-ainsley.bsky.social Director PPI project on Centre-left Renewal; author ‘The New Working Class’; Exec Director of Policy for Labour and Keir Starmer 2020-22
Polly Billington @pollybillington.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament, East Thanet,
Jo Platt MP @joplatt.bsky.social Labour & Co-operative Member of Parliament for Leigh and Atherton. This includes Golborne, Lowton, Tyldesley and Astley. For constituency queries, email Jo.platt.mp@parliament.uk
Alex Sobel MP @alexsobel.co.uk Labour & Co-operative MP for Leeds Central and Headingley.
Promoted by Hollie Ridley on behalf of the Labour Party, 20 Rushworth Street London, SE1 0SS
Patrick Hurley @patrickhurley.bsky.social Working class bloke, just trying to make a bit of a positive difference. MP for Southport.
www.patrickhurley.uk
WeCanMake @wecanmake.bsky.social Neighbourhood test-space imagining and making low carbon homes, social infrastructure and building community wealth in the process.
📍Knowle West, Bristol
WeCanMake.org
Jake Puddle @jakepuddle.bsky.social Director of Research at British Future
Interested in migration, cohesion and countering the far-right
Aspen Institute Fellow
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
Athlyn Cathcart-Keays @athlynck.bsky.social 🏡 Communications Lead @WeCanMake.bsky.social working for a people & place-led just transition
🦵 Big fan of self-propelled adventures
🚲 @roll-models.bsky.social
Jess Craig @jesscraig.bsky.social Policy at Power to Change. Talking about communities, social connection, high streets, politics and policy.
Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
David Barclay @davidbarclay.bsky.social Partner at the Good Faith Partnership. Director of the Warm Welcome Campaign. Lover of anything vaguely competitive. 
Ailbhe (Alva) McNabola @ailbhemcnabola.bsky.social Interim Director of Policy & Impact at London & Partners
Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy @bennettinstitute.bsky.social
Trustee at the Postal Museum
Trustee at East Anglia Swimming Club
Centre for the South @centreforthesouth.bsky.social We are a regional thinktank working within the University of Southampton, founded to help drive the University’s vision as a civic partner for our region.
www.centreforthesouth.co.uk
www.linkedin.com/company/centre-for-the-south/
Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social Chair Charity Commission England and Wales. Chair of #CivilSocietyFutures 2018. CEO of Jospeh Rowntree Foundation 2006-20016.. Www.juliaunwin.com
Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social Neighbourhoods, community, social housing, poverty, art, film, humour, puns, photography, cycling, climate
Impetus @impetus.org.uk We transform the lives of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds by ensuring they get the right support to succeed in school, in work and in life.
https://www.impetus.org.uk/
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
Ross McCulloch @thirdsectorlab.co.uk Tech for good insights, digital activism and occasional photos of Scotland.
Founder at Third Sector Lab - Helping charities deliver more impact with digital, data & design ⚡️
https://thirdsectorlab.co.uk/
36k Twitter followers - starting from 0 here.
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Emily Thornberry MP @emilythornberry.bsky.social Labour MP for Islington South, Finsbury & De Beauvoir.
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
https://www.emilythornberry.com