Jon Yates
Write on leadership, violence, community, education. Lead Youth Endowment Fund.
Board Ofsted, Children’s Commissioner, UK Youth.
@duncanweldon.bsky.social
Economics writer. Author. Expect history, finance, economics and other stuff. Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through. Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out in June 2025.
@benlindsayobe.bsky.social
Ben Lindsay OBE founder of the Charity Times Charity of the Year for 2023 - www.powerthefight.org.uk. PhD Candidate Durham Uni. Author. Chelsea supporter. www.benlindsay.co.uk
@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!
@carlenefirmin.bsky.social
Prof of Social Work, Durham University Founder, Contextual Safeguarding
@jamesscurry.com
Producer | Sky News Co-founder | Safely Held Spaces Senior Fellow | John Schofield Trust Trainer in Trauma-Informed Newsrooms Psychotherapist - helping journalists and newsrooms to thrive London | linktr.ee/jamesscurry
@crest-advisory.bsky.social
A purpose-driven team of experts dedicated to improving justice, policing and public safety.
@youthendowmentfund.org.uk
We're here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. www.youthendowmentfund.org.uk
@rcolvile.bsky.social
Director of CPS, editor-in-chief of CapX, columnist for The Sunday Times, author of The Great Acceleration. Politics, policy and parenting.
@rachelsylvester.bsky.social
Political editor of The Observer. Email: [email protected]
@sonia-sodha.bsky.social
Columnist & broadcaster. Presenting for BBC Radio 4, news reviews for This Morning & Sky News. Highly commended/shortlisted Society of Editors' Commentator of the Year 2023 & 2024.
@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
@gabrielmilland.bsky.social
Mainly research for strategy. Former senior UK government comms official and adviser. Once a journalist. Further back, a historian of the media, war and public opinion. Halberdier. Aggro-centrist. Bristol City FC.
@wallaceme.bsky.social
Chief Executive of Total Politics Group. Writer, broadcaster, media CEO. Publisher of PoliticsHome, The House magazine, Holyrood magazine, The Parliament magazine, Civil Service World, ConservativeHome and more. Columnist for the i paper. Never a dull day.
@tobylloyd.bsky.social
Policy wonk, ex-spad, consultant, writer, Londoner. Housing, urbanism and transport mainly.
@gilesyb.bsky.social
Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, baker of overly dense loaves. I run five times a week so does that make me a Running Punk?
@paulkissack.bsky.social
Group Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT). Former Government civil servant. Manxman now living in North Yorkshire.
@lucyfisher.ft.com
Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️ Host of the FT’s Political Fix podcast 🎙️
@eddorrell.bsky.social
Partner at Public First (education, levelling up and Labour). Quant, qual, political comms. Ex-journo at @tes. Still write a lot.
@raviguru.bsky.social
CEO, Nesta and Behavioural Insights Team. Governor, Health Foundation. What I do: applied research, venture building, policy. Particularly in net zero, education and health.
@pollymackenzie.bsky.social
Used to be in politics. Now work for the coolest university in the world.
@mds49.bsky.social
Political theorist, author, speechwriter, campaigner. Director UCL Policy Lab.
@stianwestlake.bsky.social
Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council. Metascience, evidence, data infrastructures, economic growth.
@mattchorley.bsky.social
📻BBC Radio 5 Live weekdays 2pm-4pm 🇺🇸Americanswers Mondays BBC Sounds 🎤Stand-up shows coming in 2025 ✍️Subscribe to mailing list mattchorley.com
@iainbrennan.bsky.social
Professor of Criminology at University of Hull, UK. Violence research and prevention. Institutional Lead for Open Research.
@mattashby.com
I use data to help reduce crime. Associate Professor, Crime Science, UCL. Former police officer. 🌐: mattashby.com
@thomasabt.bsky.social
Author, BLEEDING OUT. Founding Director, VRC. Associate Research Professor, UMD. Senior Fellow, CCJ. Opinions, my own.
@jenniferdoleac.bsky.social
Economist. Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures. Host of the Probable Causation podcast. Author of The Science of Second Chances, to be published by Holt in 2026. I study crime & discrimination. https://jenniferdoleac.com
@davespencer.bsky.social
Head of Crime & Justice for Westminster think tank, Co-founder @Police_Now, Previously @metpoliceuk police officer, “Not a terrible human”
@tombennett71.bsky.social
Behaviour advisor to the UK Department of Education. Founder of researchED. Professor of School Behaviour. Academica University of Applied Science.
@rickmuirbskysocial.bsky.social
Policing Advisor at the UK Home Office. Previously Director of the Police Foundation and Associate Director at IPPR. Dad. From Teesside #UTB.
@alexgathomas.bsky.social
Institute for Government: civil service and all things effective government. Ex-Cabinet Office, Defra, Dept of Health
@tomchivers.bsky.social
"Far too nice to be a journalist," per Terry Pratchett. Lead writer on Semafor's Flagship newsletter. DMs open; chiversthomas(a)gmail. Latest book, Everything is Predictable: geni.us/EIPBook Podcast, The Studies Show: https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com
@bbcdaniels.bsky.social
I am UK/Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. Police, prisons, law, crime and terrorism. Before that Moscow Correspondent so still post about Russia/Ukraine.
@ljknight.bsky.social
Criminology, violence prevention for children and young people, place-based approaches, "what works" and evidence synthesis. Head of Toolkit, https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk
@igmansfield.bsky.social
Current affairs, politics, education and miscellany. All views my own. Substack at edrith.co.uk
@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/
@luketryl.bsky.social
Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
@thesccjr.bsky.social
The Centre is a collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier, Stirling and Strathclyde. SCCJR aims to produce research that informs policy and practice and advances our understanding of justice. https://linktr.ee/sccjr
@gmhales.bsky.social
Researching/discussing policing, crime and the criminal justice system. Senior Associate Fellow @policefoundationuk.bsky.social but my own views. Based in London, UK.
@tomjackmanwp.bsky.social
Crime and justice reporter, The Washington Post. True Crime blog, Jan. 6 cases, fed courts, policing. Big fan of sports, music, comedy, sleeping, not necessarily in that order.
@tomsymonds.bsky.social
BBC Political and News Correspondent. Particular interests in crime, justice, policing. TV, Radio and Web. [email protected]
@bradheath.bsky.social
DC reporter for Reuters on crime, justice and investigations. Data, documents and "convoluted KGB style back-door" stuff. Lawyer, but not yours. 202-527-9709, [email protected]
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social
Director, Policy Institute at King's College London and Chair of the Campaign for Social Science
@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
@stephenkb.bsky.social
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics