Tom Walker @tomwalker.fyi Research and investigations on corruption in the UK for @transparencyuk.bsky.social. Formerly @thegeckoproject.org @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social, The Engine Room and others.
tomwalker.fyi
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social
Sofia Ropek Hewson @sofiahewson.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow in democracy and politics team at IPPR.
@michaelholder.bsky.social @michaelholder.bsky.social Climate & environment journalist - editor @businessgreen.bsky.social
Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org IPPR is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
Find out more here: linktr.ee/IPPR
Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social Senior political adviser at Uplift. Fossil fuels, climate change and politics, views my own.
Cecilia Keating @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org 🌱 science section editor @carbonbrief.org 🌱
Lucy Siegle @lucysiegle.bsky.social Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.
Writer/broadcaster/host been on the case of this beautiful planet (nature and climate beat) since 2000.
Paperweight Magazine @paperweightmag.com A new magazine covering worldwide affairs, society, culture, and design. Bluesky launching soon...
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Chris Hayes @chrismwhayes.bsky.social @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
common-wealth.org
Jade-Ruyu Yan @fangsonggongzhu.bsky.social Investigative tech reporter at @opendemocracy.net and @techpolicypress.bsky.social
https://www.jadelyan.com/
Zeteo UK @zeteo.uk Disrupting Britain’s broken media. A new journalistic force from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @Zeteo.com.
https://zeteo.uk/
Sam Narr @samnarr.bsky.social Founder and CEO at Kibbo Kift Agency – Communications for Climate, Cause and Culture. 🌍🌎🌏
Exclusively representing global climate orgs, future-thinkers and social justice campaigns aligned to the UN SDGs. kibbokiftagency.com
Georgia Catt @georgiajcatt.bsky.social Executive Producer, Narrative Series, BBC Studios
The Missing Cryptoqueen, World of Secrets: The Disciples, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine
For story ideas or leads: georgia.catt@bbc.com
Daisy Bata @batadaisy.bsky.social investigative journo & documentary producer @bbc @channel4 @itv @mindhouse @hardcash @keofilms etc.
specialise in OSINT, cyber crimes, crypto, algorithms & tech
also writer/director of scripted shorts ("Bloodbuzz")
Sophie Barnes @sophiebarnes.bsky.social Senior Journalist at Channel 4 Dispatches. Formerly in the Telegraph's investigations team
Andrew Carter @andrewcities.bsky.social Chief Executive at Centre for Cities. www.centreforcities.org. Views my own.
Matthew Barnfield @mbarnfield.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.
matthewbarnfield.co.uk
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Ben Williams @bpwilliams72.bsky.social Liberal sort. Rambler. Singer. Gamer. Occasional writer. Recovering politico. Former lots of things (inc. Lib Dem Leader's Chief of Staff, Cabinet Office SpAd, Head of Whips' Office). Yorkshire via Essex. Posting in a strictly personal capacity.
Sonny Loughran™️ @sonny101.bsky.social I write about Britain for The Economist
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
Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
Pascoe Sabido @pascoesabido.bsky.social Exposing the power of corporate lobbying in the EU for Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope.bsky.social, esp around climate, but all diatribes my own.
Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Bolton West | Chair APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax
Email: phil.brickell.mp@parliament.uk
Phone: 01204 958 436
Website: www.philbrickellmp.co.uk
Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org Europe's leading NGO coalition fighting dangerous climate change!
Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social Hungarian journalist. News junkie. Former Brussels correspondent. Lives in Leuven. @eublogo on X
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
Luke Raikes @lukeraikes.bsky.social Deputy General Secretary at the Fabian Society | regional economies, devolution, productivity, industrial strategy, employment rights, employment support, transport, politics | Views are my own | 🏴
https://fabians.org.uk/about-us/meet-our-experts/
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 ✍️
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
Russell Warfield @russellwarfield.bsky.social head of comms for climate charity Possible / book reviews editor at Resurgence & Ecologist / dad / 🏴 (he/him, my views)
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
Georgios Samaras @gsamaras.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Public Policy @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Researching online radicalisation and far-right mainstreaming
https://gsamaras.org
HK @hkesvani.bsky.social Journalist who mostly does Dad Posting. talk from time to time on @trashfuture.bsky.social and @10kpostspodcast.bsky.social
Paul Nowak @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social General Secretary of @the-tuc.bsky.social
Family, unions, politics, canals, Everton FC, music.
megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social political correspondent, new statesman
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Mary Stuart (she/her) @marylouisestuart.bsky.social Canada editor/reporter @desmog.com
Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Charlie Young @charlienotold.bsky.social Journalist, Researcher: Tech, Power, Human Ecology //
Current work @ the Nerve //
Author of Spinning Out (Longlisted for Bread & Roses Award)
Linktr.ee/CharlieY0ung
Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
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.
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
Alice McCool @mccoolingtons.bsky.social ❌ On sick leave ❌ Journalist + feminist. Investigative reporter at The Nerve. Formerly Good Law Project. Other bylines inc The Guardian, CNN, Dazed, TIME Magazine. They/them.
www.alicemccool.com
Antony Underwood @ajunderwood.bsky.social Communicating the work of IKEA Foundation & our partners to tackle the climate crisis 🌍 🇬🇧 happily calling 🇳🇱 home
Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
Rose Whiffen @rosewhiff.bsky.social Researcher for @transparencyuk.bsky.social on political integrity issues and wider corruption. All opinions my own.
Ambrose Pym @ambrosepym.bsky.social Digital/data investigations for NGO.
Byline in Bellingcat. Research featured in The Guardian, DeSmog, Byline Times
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
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
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/
Natasha Anson @natashaanson.bsky.social Collaborative PhD student (Durham) & museum person (Beamish) researching nostalgia and working class heritage, interested in all things open-air museums/heritage/memory 🪩 she/her, views own, sporadic skeeter
Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”
Michael Shanks MP @michaelshanksmp.co.uk Proud to serve as Rutherglen's Labour Member of Parliament. UK Energy Minister. Charity trustee and volunteer. Occasional runner.
Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Prospect Magazine; Principal Editor at Resolution Foundation
Chris Tilbury @cdtilbury.bsky.social Head of Digital @prospectmagazine.bsky.social
Cormac Kehoe @coramazov.bsky.social Investigative Correspondent at The Fence
Investigative Reporter for London Centric & BBC Radio 4 - "The Naked Week."
Fellow Centre for Investigative Journalism 23'.
Tristram Hicks @warondirtymoney.bsky.social Author: The War on Dirty Money, The EU Financial investigation Handbook.
Ex senior cop, crime scientist.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tristramhicks/p/1-a-short-uk-history-of-confiscating?r=ed1ld&utm_medium=
Daisy Harmer 🌼 @daisyharmer.bsky.social Research, Policy and Storytelling
Supporting the Ecosystem @ UCL Policy Lab 🌱
Love plants, cooking, cats and board games. Climber when not injured. She/her
Currently reading Orbital
Natalie Samarasinghe @nataliesam.bsky.social Solidarity good, justice better
Austro-Lankan-Brit working on global governance, solutions and leadership
Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social MP for Norwich South “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently” - David Graeber
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk Breaking news, campaigns and advice from unions and the labour movement. https://tuc.org.uk
Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com Data journalist at @data.ft.com. These days mainly thinking about elections data and how to use automation and AI in news. #ddj #dataviz
Jonny Blackburn @echoblackburn.bsky.social Investigations and campaigns reporter for the Liverpool Echo.
Email: jon.blackburn@liverpoolecho.co.uk
Nathan Bennett @nathanbennett.bsky.social Mainly chatting about politics and renewables, as you'd expect from the head of comms for RenewableUK. Views my own
Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social Politics, policy, public attitudes. Work in polling and comms. Director, Persuasion UK. ex- Shelter, civil service and various other things. 🏳️🌈
https://persuasionuk.org/about
https://strongmessagehere.substack.com/
Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social Author of the Sprint for PR Substack: @ewanhoyle.substack.com
Advocate for ranked preference polling and voting systems.
We can fairly (and totally) remove Reform UK's path to power through electoral reform.
Ben Stewart @benstewart999.bsky.social Also over at LedByDonkeys.org
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
FarageWatch @faragewatch.bsky.social Britain's community reality-check newsletter. Independent. Fact-reporting. Fully sourced. Print copies crowdfunded and delivered door-to-door by volunteers.
Amy Hoggart @amyhoggart.bsky.social Writer, comedian, nosy interviewer, doula
📝 Substack: amyhoggart.substack.com Fun chats with lefties
🎙️@feMANismpodcast Female comedians playing male feminists
Intergenerational Foundation www.if.org.uk @intergenerational.bsky.social We're a research charity fighting for a fairer deal for younger and future generations across all areas of policy. www.if.org.uk
#housing #taxation #spending #climate #pensions #students #governmentspending #intergenerationalfairness #children
Jose Fox @josefox.bsky.social Producer @Channel4News | Former Journalist @BBCNewsnight | jose.fox@itn.co.uk
Robbie Griffiths @robbieegrif.bsky.social Journalist | @privateeyenews.bsky.social | @npr.org
Simon Finlay @simonfinlay.bsky.social Northern Irish; Kent politics journalist; Brentford FC, Glentoran FC & Maidstone United. Fly-fisher who likes clean rivers. Views my own, not that of anyone would want them.
“Any friend that’s been turned down is bound to be a friend of mine” - John Prine
Antony Hook @antonyhook.bsky.social Leader of the Official Opposition at Kent County Council. Liberal Democrat. Ex-MEP.
Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social Local news bore. Editor @kentcurrent.news @localauthority.news // He/him.
📍 Medway, UK
Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social Writer + PhDing at Columbia Journalism School
Author of Tory Nation (Simon & Schuster 2023), words all over the place
Email: s.wajcman.earle[at]gmail.com
Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social UK Investigative Correspondent for The New York Times. Not from New York City from (near) Rotherham.
Used to be mid-tier on Twitter. Don't know if I have the energy for another social media platform.
Sarah Donaldson @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social now: co-founder @thenerve.news before: deputy editor, Observer New Review
thenerve.news
Daniel Howden @daniel-howden.bsky.social Founder & director at Lighthouse Reports, focused on migration, tech, surveillance. Previously at Economist, The Independent
Lucie Heath @luciemheath.bsky.social Environment Correspondent at The i Paper, usually going on about rivers
Matt Dathan @mattdathan.bsky.social Home Affairs Editor at The Times
Ed Caesar @edcaesar.bsky.social Writer @newyorker. Author of "The Moth and the Mountain" and "Two Hours". "The Comet" will be published in February 2027. https://celadonbooks.com/book/the-comet/
Margot Gibbs @margotgibbs.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @LHReports, former @ICIJorg @Finuncovered
£$€ Food + Money €$£
Emma Maxwell @emmamaxwell.bsky.social Senior Producer at Channel 4 News. Supporter of the John Schofield Trust. "Things will happen that we don't expect".
Megha Rajagopalan @meghara.bsky.social international investigations, The New York Times
please email to get in touch:
megha.rajagopalan@nytimes.com
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social Britain editor, New Statesman. Lead host, New Statesman Podcast (Publisher Podcast Award winner '21-24) & co-host Westminster Reimagined with Armando Iannucci.
Martha Dark @marthadark.bsky.social Co-founder and director at Foxglove, former Reprieve & Open Rights Group.
May Bulman @maybulman.bsky.social Investigations editor @lhreports.bsky.social, formerly social affairs corro at The Independent
DMs open | email: may@lighthousereports.com | Signal: 00447919210950
Joseph S Furey @tempus-fukit.bsky.social Writer, freelance features journalist, arts critic and travel hack, devout Gooner. News UK, editorial and commercial. Non-fiction book in the works
josephsfurey.substack.com – josephsfurey.com
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