Luke Young @lukeyoung.bsky.social Head of Policy, Citizens Advice. Leading teams across welfare, living standards, & devolved work in Wales. Former Chief SpAd. 🏳️🌈🏴
Marc Francis @marcfrancisth.bsky.social Former Labour Party councillor for Bow East ward in Tower Hamlets
James Riding @jamesriding.bsky.social Living Markets Editor at Inside Housing | Book reviews in The Times | Press Awards 30 Under 30 2024 | james.riding@oceanmedia.co.uk
Josh Gabert-Doyon @joshgd100.bsky.social Writer, audio producer for the Financial Times 'Tech Tonic' podcast. 
Emily Chudy @emilychudy.bsky.social ✨ Journalist covering the LGBTQIA+ community
✍️ Big Issue, The Independent, Slate, Glamour Magazine, Byline Times, Cosmopolitan, LGBTQ+ Nation etc
📖 Repped by @blakefriedmann.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 she/her
linktr.ee/emilychudy
Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
@jrf-uk.bsky.social
Posting about poverty, inequality, communities and places.
From the Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent, views my own.
Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social Senior research fellow @ippr.bsky.social - climate, transport, planning | PhD from CSCT Bath | she/her (views my own)
Renters' Reform Coalition @rentersreformco.bsky.social We are a coalition of 18 organisations campaigning for private renting reform. We want safe, secure and affordable homes for all 🏡
https://rentersreformcoalition.co.uk/
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social Housing, Rugby, Gym.
George Bangham @georgebangham.bsky.social Head of Social Policy @neweconomics.bsky.social
Ex HM Treasury/No10/Resolution Foundation
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
Cost of Living Action @costoflivingaction.bsky.social 
Gemma Byrne @gemmabyrne.bsky.social Policy and Campaigns at Mind
Views are my own
Donald Hirsch @donaldhirsch.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Social Policy
Loughborough University
The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social Working to solve society’s challenges with evidence and expertise. Based at King's College London 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute
Event invites & updates ➡️ https://kcl.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1fbc849719098ca1a31f3263e&id=9ba63cb1ff
Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social Prof Urban Studies + Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation) KCL | Author Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (2025) | Housing/Home/Law | UK & Cambodia | Editor TIBG | Views own | https://www.debt-trap-nation.org/book
Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social Updates, commentary and analysis on UK immigration and asylum law. Sign up to our weekly email newsletter here: http://bit.ly/2yNDl3r.
Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
Kitty Stewart @kittyjstewart.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy, LSE. Associate Director, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)
Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, LSE - http://aaronreeves.org/ - New Book: Born to Rule: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674257719
Sarah Hadfield @drsarahhadfield.bsky.social Policy Researcher at Citizens Advice.
Becca Stacey @beccastacey.bsky.social Financial security and terminal illness @mariecurieuk.bsky.social | Social security and devolution @safety-nets.bsky.social | Views my own
Central London Forward @clfnews.bsky.social The sub-regional partnership of the 12 central London boroughs, CLF works to drive inclusive and sustainable growth in the capital.
the WelfareExperiences project @welfare-experience.bsky.social 
Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social Whitehall Editor for the Observer & chief investigative reporter for BBC R4's The Naked Week. Politics, investigations and taramasalata
Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social Deputy chief exec at Generation Rent. Geordie. Mostly housing, sometimes other policy stuff and daft observations. Employer doesn't necessarily agree with everything I say.
Albinia Stanley @albiniastanley.bsky.social Organising, campaign strategy & participatory research. Currently working on oral histories of migration in SW London and the Fix the Five Basics Campaign: www.fixthefivebasics.org
Abi O'Connor @drabioconnor.bsky.social Urban Sociologist. Leverhulme ECF @ Sheffield University. Hon Fel @ Uni of Liverpool. PhD ✍️ political economy of housing/land, spatial inequality, local gov/politics & stigma. Fullback. Union rep. Organising w Liverpool Residents Action et al. Views my own
Sienna Rodgers @siennarodgers.bsky.social Deputy editor of The House magazine in Parliament.
Taha @datataha.bsky.social Lead Analyst, JRF. Previously Wellcome Trust, Citizens Advice, NHF.
#rstats
Views my own, especially about the cricket
Matt Whittaker @mattwhittaker.bsky.social Chief exec at PBE (Pro Bono Economics). Previously at Resolution Foundation. Inequalities-focused economist, cinephile, football coach (Fishersgate Flyers u17s), player (Sweet FA) and fan (Spurs & Stockport County).
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
Laura Bennett @laurabwork.bsky.social Policy & Public Affairs for @rainbowtrust.org.uk and @lewybodysociety.bsky.social. Trustee @rightsofwomen.bsky.social. Sometimes a carer. Charity lifer. Londoner. Fond of a lipstick.
UCL Policy Lab @uclpolicylab.bsky.social Bringing extraordinary ideas and everyday experience together to tackle the challenges facing us all.
Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, trade unionist and socialist
https://inews.co.uk/author/andrew-fisher
Chris Birt @cdbirt.bsky.social Associate Director for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Victoria Pogge von Strandmann @vpogge.bsky.social Public law, human rights, access to justice, legal aid, Legal Director @publiclawproject.bsky.social, views mine
Mathew Lawrence @mathewlawrence.bsky.social Founder & Director @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
https://www.common-wealth.org/
Co-author of Planet on Fire & Owning the Future
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/authors/lawrence-mathew
Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social Exec Director & founder, Uplift; "provocative and not entirely without merit" according to Energy Voice, Standard disclaimers, incl. that all views are my own.
Kwajo Tweneboa @kwajo.bsky.social The landlords’ Landlord - Tearing the singlets of Housing Providers across the U.K. and more 🇬🇧🧏🏽♂️ Email: Kwajohousing@gmail.com
Laurie Macfarlane @lmacfarlane.bsky.social Co-director @FutureEconScot.bsky.social Fellow UCL IIPP and the Democracy Collaborative. Co-author ‘Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing’ 
Harry QP @harryqp.bsky.social Director of IPPR. Progressive policy and politics. Non-Exec Director at West London NHS Trust.
Alfie Stirling @alfie-stirling.bsky.social Director of Insight & Policy at JRF | previously NEF & IPPR | "all models are wrong, but some are useful" (G Box)
Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️
Host of the FT’s award-winning ‘Political Fix’ podcast🎙️Author 📚
Will Stronge @wstronge.bsky.social Director of @autonomy-institute.bsky.social
Website: autonomy.work
Co-author, with Helen Hester, of Post-work (2025) and, with Kyle Lewis, of Overtime (2021)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-9781350089976/
Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
https://linktr.ee/garysecon
Annie Williamson @awilliamson1.bsky.social Health economist, Queen Mary and Barts Health TB Centre
NHS doctor. 🏳️🌈 Views my own.
Paul Johnson @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social From August, Provost, The Queen’s College, Oxford. Previously director, Institute for Fiscal Studies. Author “Follow the Money”
Keiran Pedley @keiranpedley.bsky.social Pollster at Ipsos. Genuine poll Boffin. Expect Spurs polling and politics!!
Tom Wall @tomwall.bsky.social Journalist. News and investigations for the Guardian, BBC and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
✉️ t.wall@outlook.com
Ben Twomey @bentwomeyuk.bsky.social Former Chief Executive of Generation Rent, presenter on Policing TV, views my own.
Danny Sriskandarajah @dhnnjyn.bsky.social Chief Exec of @neweconomics.bsky.social
Author of "Power to the People" (Headline Press, 2024) https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/danny-sriskandarajah/power-to-the-people/9781035414277/
Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social Bourgeois interests, proletarian instincts.
Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social Data Editor, @thetimes.com
🇬🇧 How is Britain doing? 👉 thetimes.com/data
🔗 https://www.thetimes.com/profile/tom-calver
📧 thomas.calver@the-times.co.uk
Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social Academic lawyer at the University of Bristol, interested in lots, including inquests & death, social welfare, housing/homelessness, planning, administrative and constitutional law. Firm believer in nuance and context.
Lucy Bannister @lucybannister.bsky.social Senior Policy Manager at Trussell focusing on social security and employment support. Previously Turn2us, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Living Wage Foundation and local government. Trustee Sufra NW London.
Helen Undy @helenundy.bsky.social Chief Exec @moneyandmentalhealth.org - tweeting in a personal capacity about mental health, money and matrescence, mostly. (She/her)
Ed Pybus @epybus.bsky.social social policy - social justice, social security, land reform, poverty, climate change, global justice, housing...and more...mostly here to listen...plus chess ♟, house plants 🪴, woodland crofts 🌲, music 🎶, and occasional macrame 🧶.
Alan Markey @alancov.bsky.social CEO of Coventry Independent Advice Service • Chair of National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers (NAWRA) • BayesCCE MSc Alumni • Former editor Citizens Advice 'Adviser' magazine • Sunderland fan • All kinds of music lover • Frustrated musician
Dan Weir @danweir.bsky.social Research and Policy Manager at moneyandmentalhealth.org
Rapier Instructor at londonhistoricalfencing.club
Hereditary Crystal Palace fan
Mostly just musing here.
Views my own, reposts not endorsements etc
He/Him
Asli Atay @asliatay.bsky.social Senior Policy Adviser at the Work Foundation. Interested in labour market and health. Previously at the Learning& Work Institute and Demos. Istanbulite living in London. Currently on maternity leave but still checks here!
https://asliatay.substack.com/
Stephen Walcott @sjwalcott.bsky.social Senior researcher at the Runnymede Trust - all things racial justice and all views mine
Tim Sharp @timsharp.bsky.social Employment rights policy at the TUC.
Runs.
South East London via North East Scotland.
Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social An anti-poverty charity and community of food banks working to end hunger together 💚
Richard Vaughan @richardvaughan.bsky.social Chief Political Correspondent with The i Paper. Generally tired.
Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social We're one of the largest providers of free immigration advice in London. We give advice, provide support, and campaign so that migrants & refugees in the UK can live with safety, dignity & respect.
https://linktr.ee/praxis_uk
Will Hazell @whazell.bsky.social Whitehall Correspondent @ the i inewspaper. Story? will.hazell@inews.co.uk
Oliver Chantler @oliverchantler.bsky.social Head of Policy & Public Affairs, Mental Health Foundation, but views here my own. 
@sumi-r.bsky.social @sumi-r.bsky.social 
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
The Poverty Alliance @povertyalliance.org Scotland’s anti-poverty network. With justice and compassion we can build a future free from poverty.
Paul Waugh MP @paulwaughmp.bsky.social Labour and Co-operative MP for Rochdale
paulwaugh.co.uk
NEON @neonuk.bsky.social Neon supports, strengthens, and helps social justice movements win. We do it through programmes, resources, support and networks.
Kate Harrison @kslharrison.bsky.social Senior Policy Researcher at Citizens Advice, researching welfare conditionality (she/her)
Formerly Demos, Southampton Uni, KCL
Lucy Mort @lucyhbmort.bsky.social Principal Research Fellow at IPPR. Work on migration and cohesion. Care about creating a fairer and more just world.
Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social Director of Research at ThinkLabour. Interested in politics and data. Interested in how people think about politics and data.
@jacktshaw.bsky.social @jacktshaw.bsky.social Director of Groundwork Research and Policy Fellow, The Productivity Institute. 'Veteran local government advisor'.
Read my Notes on Local Government Substack: https://substack.com/@notesonlocalgovernment
Karen Barker @karenmbarker.bsky.social Policy & Research
New Economy Brief @neweconomybrief.bsky.social New Economy Brief brings together credible analysis and proposals for building a fair, sustainable & resilient economy. Sign up to our weekly newsletter: https://www.neweconomybrief.net/sign-up
Anjum Klair @anjumklair.bsky.social Work at the Trades Union Congress - Policy Lead on Labour market & Social security. Leicester City fan. Tweeting in personal capacity retweets not endorsements
Ally Brown @allybrown.bsky.social Research Associate in Social Policy @ Strathclyde Uni.
Food policy for THRIVING Food Futures.
Also policy approaches to health inequalities, and to mental health.
Charles Tallack @charlestallack.bsky.social Ex-director of analysis @HealthFdn,ex-Whitehall civil servant & NHS England.
Love ideas, numbers, analysis, evidence, debate and challenge. Views my own.
Alice Martin @alicepmartin.bsky.social Head of Research at the Work Foundation, Lancaster University. Employment rights, working lives, health, industrial strategy. Living in a South London flood risk zone.
mattpadley.bsky.social @mattpadley.bsky.social Co-Director and Professor at the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University. Research/think/write on poverty, living standards, income, retirement. Running may sneak in now & then.
Ben Harrison @benrharrison.bsky.social Director of the Work Foundation. Former Centre for Cities and IPPR. Born in Newcastle, working in London, married to Buenos Aires. All views my own.
Daisy Sands @daisy-sands.bsky.social Social justice campaigner. Head of Campaigns and Public Affairs @jrf-uk.bsky.social.
Pragmatic idealist, if ever there were a thing.
David Sturrock @david-sturrock.bsky.social Economist
Ryan Shorthouse @ryanshorthouse.bsky.social Founder & Chair, Bright Blue | Deputy Chair, Transforming Access and Student Outcomes (TASO) | Commissioner, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) | NED, Office of the Small Business Commissioner | Visiting Fellow, University of Bath
Helen Miller @helenmiller.bsky.social Economist. Deputy Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, theifs.bsky.social
Eleni Courea @ecourea.bsky.social Political correspondent for the Guardian
Get in touch — eleni.courea@theguardian.com or carob7@proton.me
Susie D @susiedlon.bsky.social Housing nerd, working for Trust for London (@trustforlondon.bsky.social). I talk about tackling the housing crisis, #TemporaryAccommodation and the #LondonHousingPanel a lot. Mum. Cat feeder. Christian. Randomly opinionated.
Martin Williams @martin-cpag.bsky.social Welfare Rights Adviser at CPAG
Sarah Arnold @sarah-arnold.bsky.social Health and occasionally economics | Senior policy lead at the King's Fund
Hilary Cottam @hilarycottam.bsky.social Author of Radical Help and The Work We Need (out May 2025), Hon Prof @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Trustee @jrf-uk.bsky.social. Doer. Free Radical www.hilarycottam.com
Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social Director of Rebuildingmacroeconomics.ac.uk and Research Professor at Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL. 
Steven Swinford @stevenswinford.bsky.social Political Editor, The Times
Henry Newman @henrynewman.bsky.social Runs TheWhitehallProject on Substack, former Uk Government adviser, ran think tank Open Europe
Sign up at https://whitehallproject.substack.com/
Robert Palmer @robertnpalmer.bsky.social Deputy Director, Uplift. Campaigning for a rapid & fair transition away from oil & gas production in the UK.
Ex-Tax Justice UK & Global Witness. He/him 🏳️🌈. All views are my own.