Emma @autistic-me.bsky.social Autistic and chronically ill. Interested in disability, education, research and change. And cute animals and music 🐧🐶 🇬🇧
Dr Tom Riddington @drtomriddington.bsky.social Doctors in Unite rep to GPCE, GPCUK
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/
Cariad Martin @cariadroseandco.bsky.social PhD researcher and lecturer in Media Studies | Family media and fandom, digital childhood, media ethics | Tragic Millennial | Parent | She/her
Ruth Lucas @ruthlucas.bsky.social Reporter at Schools Week, covering behaviour, attendance, children's rights and some SEND. Former Local Democracy Reporter
Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social Strategy Fellow, Global Health & Wellbeing at Coefficient Giving. Views my own
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Cambridge based.
Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
Sorah Gluck @sorahgluck.bsky.social Senior Policy & Public Affairs Manager at Edge Foundation
Views my own
@fabulaworks.bsky.social @fabulaworks.bsky.social
Aaron King @9000lives.org Inclusion | SEND | Schools
Be kind, even if someone's different to you.
98% positive. Yorkshire. #Edusky #SENDSky #Inclusion
www.9000lives.org/edu-blog/
Nienke Alberts @nienke-alberts.bsky.social Researcher | Higher Education | Social Mobility | The Personal Tutoring Project
bit.ly/m/personal-tutoring-project
orcid.org/0000-0002-3712-2816
The Careers & Enterprise Company @careerent.bsky.social We support schools and colleges in England to deliver modern, 21st century careers education, so that every young person can take their best next step.
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Kate Newrick @katenewrick.bsky.social Comms Officer at the Bridge Group.
Socio-economic diversity & inclusion, social mobility, fairness and equal opps for all.
James Prentice @jamespren.bsky.social Researcher, likes data, graphs, infographics and telling stories with data. PhD in political analysis from Sussex uni - like all social science subjects. Mainly post about political analysis and my research within the Hastings & Rye area. Fabian member.
Ariela W @arielaw.bsky.social Working to move the US toward a #neweconomy and #democracy. Deputy Director, Media Strategies @rooseveltinst and @RooseveltFwd. Tweets, opinions mine.
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Lord Norton of Louth @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social Professor of Government, University of Hull. Devoted to the study of the Constitution, Parliament, and the Conservative Party.
The Access Project @theaccessproject.org.uk Education charity supporting under-resourced young people to access top universities and achieve social mobility 💚 theaccessproject.org.uk
Anna Pedroza @annaped.bsky.social Comms expert in education helping organisations to amplify their message to people in schools and early years. Chart. PR and Vice Chair Teacher Development Trust. Side hustle: song leader.
Joseph Barnsley @josephbarnsley.bsky.social Media & Communications Manager @theeef.bsky.social
Formerly NPC, Centre for London, New Local, The RSA, LSE IDEAS. #wonkcomms @evertonfc.com fan.
Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social Chief Executive, Resolution Foundation
Dan Haile @danhaile.bsky.social Economist @instituteforgovernment.org.uk
Gemma Tetlow @gemmatetlow.bsky.social Executive Director, Research & Innovation, Institute for Government
Formerly Economics Correspondent at the Financial Times and Programme Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Thomas Pope @tompope.bsky.social Chief Economist @instituteforgov.bsky.social
Cristina Leston-Bandeira @estrangeirada.bsky.social Parliaments and Public Engagement, with an obsession for petitions. Professor of Politics @ POLISatLeeds, Co-Director of its Centre for Democratic Politics and Deputy Chair of IPEN, the International Parliament Engagement Network.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Meg Pennell @meganpennell.bsky.social Working on UK Mental Health Policy @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Formally Mind and Save the Children
Tracey Tynan @traceytynan.bsky.social Director of Comms at The Sutton Trust
Elin de Zoete @elindezoete.bsky.social Group Director, ImpactEd Group
upReach | Social Mobility @upreach.bsky.social We support undergraduates from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to secure top graduate jobs. http://upreach.org.uk
The Brilliant Club @brilliantclub.bsky.social We support young people to access and thrive at leading universities by working with schools, parents and the education sector. #BackingBrilliance
https://linktr.ee/thebrilliantclub
@oriordank.bsky.social @oriordank.bsky.social
Louisa Comber @louisacomber.bsky.social 💻 Comms @powertochange.org.uk
📍 Bristol
Gill Kirk @gillkirk.bsky.social A constellation: pol comms strategist (restricted), playwright/screenwriter & tutor, media law & Norsk student, on/off French horn player & proud Glaswegian. Ex SW1, now Trumpton (Bath). All fab. www.gillkirk.com
Natalie Perera @natalieperera.bsky.social Chief External Affairs and. Communications Officer, AQA
Charity Trustee and former civil servant.
Esme Lillywhite @esmelillywhite.bsky.social Research and Policy Officer at the Sutton Trust // Social mobility advocate // Views my own https://esmelillywhite.github.io/
Luke Sibieta @lukesibieta.bsky.social Research Fellow at IFS, independent consultant, posts about about school funding, education, inequalities and cycling
Harriet Swain @harrietswain.bsky.social Journalist writing about higher education
ImpactEd Group @impactedgroup.bsky.social Supporting education and purpose-driven organisations to maximise impact and sustainability
Futures For All @futuresforalluk.bsky.social Life-changing educators. Career-shaping employers. Forward-thinking policymakers. Together we can create fair Futures For All young people in state education.
Find out more at futuresforall.org
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
House of Lords @houseoflords.parliament.uk News & information from the UK Parliament’s second chamber. Produced by its staff to show how the Lords checks and challenges the UK government.
https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/
NFER Classroom @nferclassroom.bsky.social Supporting impact in the classroom and beyond. Follow for the latest @thenfer.bsky.social research, resources and guidance for practitioners and those working in schools. 🏫
Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social Social and spatial inequalities in the creative economy (and elsewhere).
Chancellor's Fellow in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh
Culture is bad for you http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526144164
Pras @pras-fpl.bsky.social 🎙️@TheFPLWire | 📺 @OfficialFPL Show & Off the Bench podcast | ✍️ @OfficialFPL panellist | 🎙️Deadline Dilemmas and Pro-pundit on @FFScout | 📺 @Skysports FPL Show
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FPL JOE @fpljoe.bsky.social Journalist & fantasy football content creator www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk | 8 Top 10k #fpl finishes | 155th ‘best ever FPL manager’ apparently | Brighton fan | Music and film chat more than welcome.
Planet FPL (James) @planetfplpod.bsky.social 🌍 5 Podcasts every week & another 5 on Patreon. Most of them with @sujanshah. Patrons keep the lights on 💚 #PlayItYourWay 🤍 #COYS support us @ www.patreon.com/planetfpl
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.
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
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
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
Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism. Don't have a podcast.
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
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.
Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social Deputy director, Centre for European Reform, London @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social . Supporter of democracy, the rule of law, the EU & Ukraine. Opponent of authoritarianism, corruption & Putin's Russia.
Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player.
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/
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
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Currently on maternity leave
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
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social KC (E&W) BL (Irl): public/constitutional law, competition, subsidies, tax, trade. Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers. Views mine and not those of Monckton Chambers.
Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social Trade policy. Partner @ Flint Global. Associate fellow @ Chatham House.
I have a Substack: https://mostfavourednation.substack.com
Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social He must not be replaced by an otter.
Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
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.
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social I'm the programme lead for the UK energy team at E3G and an advisory board member for the Autonomy Institute. Personal account - random thoughts with a quarterly post about energy policy.
Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social Senior Fellow @instituteforgov.bsky.social
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
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
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
Alexander Horne @legalmusings.bsky.social Barrister. Commentator. Visiting Prof @ Durham University. Former parliamentary lawyer & special adviser UK Parliament (JCHR, EU, Women & Equalities; International Agreements). Musings on law, politics & restaurants . Personal views.
🇬🇧🇧🇪🇮🇱
📍LDN/BX
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
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
Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org King’s Counsel. Serious about Law, but only about Law.
General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook.
Trustee of FRU
Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board
Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.
Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social Professor of Int’l & EU Law, Diplomatic Academy Vienna. Past: Prof., founding Director CIGAD at King's College London, specialist adviser House of Lords EU Select Committee, Référendaire CJEU
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social Journalist @guardian - defence and security editor. Based in London, travel to Ukraine and anywhere else when I can.... signal: londoncalling.77
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/
Anthony Wells @anthonyjwells.bsky.social Global Head of Politics at YouGov. Dartfordian. Hates agree-disagree statements.
Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social Barrister. I defend people.
David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC: barrister, cross-bench peer; HL Justice & Home Aff Cttee; Chair Inter Mediate, @uclei.bsky.social; Vis Prof KCL; ex-Indept Reviewer Terrorism, Prevent Commr, AFPS; history, nature, sea kayaking, Suffolk
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.
Catherine Barnard @cbarnard.bsky.social Professor of EU law and Employment law, Trinity College Cambridge, senior fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Knows a little bit about EU and Brexit things.
Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social Director of the Hansard Society, working to make Parliament more effective.
🎧 Co-host of the Parliament Matters podcast | https://hansardsociety.start.page/
Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social Film journalist, author, podcaster, broadcaster, etc. Empire's Editor-at-Large. If you would like to give me work, have a look at helenohara.com
Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social Director of Research at ThinkLabour. Interested in politics and data. Interested in how people think about politics and data.
UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social The UK’s leading research centre on constitutional change. Informing policy-making and public debate about the constitution and democracy.
Sign up to hear about our blog posts, events and publications 👉 https://mailchi.mp/ucl/constitution-unit.
Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social Comics, music, books, film, photos, paintings & cartoons! Humanism & ASD too. A Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure. Hurrah!
Agnes C. Poirier @agnescpoirier.bsky.social Journalist, writer & broadcaster.
📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury)
📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld)
✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social I do refugee and asylum policy at the Refugee Council, so most likely a lot of the posts will be about that.
Graeme Cowie @woodstockjag.bsky.social Constitutional pedant, Partick Thistle-supporting masochist, atrocious recreational golfer.
Director and Secretary @thejagsfoundation.bsky.social