Nick Plumb
Director of Policy and Insight at @powertochange.org.uk
Interests include: UK politics, trust, communities, localism, democratic reform, and inequality.
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Communitarians
A collection of politicos, wonks, writers and thinkers with an interest in communitarian political thought
@mrjlauder.bsky.social
Dixons Academies. Schools as civic institutions - ensuring our communities have a voice and power. Building place based partnerships. Views my own. At weekends I post about cooking.
@annabel-smith.bsky.social
Director, Centre for Progressive Policy. Working with places across UK for a more inclusive economy. New to Bluesky.
@greenmirandahere.bsky.social
Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. More yakking. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb
@psalocalpol.bsky.social
We are the Local Politics & Governance Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social) Web: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/local-politics-and-governance
@gregbarradale.bsky.social
Senior reporter for @bigissue.com - covering untold stories from housing and asylum to drugs and politics
@ashden-org.bsky.social
@greyskiesthinking.bsky.social
Research, analysis & grey-skies thinking on labour markets, social security, public finance & equality. Usual disclaimer. @declangaffney@mstdn.social. 🇮🇪 Profile pic is Takashi Shimura with Toshiro oMifune in Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, 1949).
@ericklinenberg.bsky.social
Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.*
@roswynnejones.bsky.social
Writer of Daily Mirror social justice column #RealBritain + special projects #Yr9No10 #PeopleMove #BritainTalks #WiganPierProject. Books include 'The Journey' with Abdul Musa Adam. Novellas, bread & border terrier enthusiast. @realbritainros over there.
@kirstymcneill.bsky.social
Scottish Labour and Co-operative MP for Midlothian and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland.
@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
@oldtrotter.bsky.social
Former economist and civil servant. Still a music fan and trying to return to being a cyclist after open heart surgery.
@clairemiller.bsky.social
Data journalist, maths geek, feminist, responsible for a lot of the ICO's FOI caseload. clairemiller.net
@iconeighbours.bsky.social
Exploring and addressing the significant challenges faced by the country's most deprived neighbourhoods. Funded by @localtrust.bsky.social Twitter: @iconeighbours https://www.neighbourhoodscommission.org.uk/
@jameslwright.bsky.social
Mostly co-ops, policy and the better world that is probably possible
@research-for-act.bsky.social
We produce research and organise around accountability, information rights & local democracy. Currently: democratic effects of #LocalGov financial crisis. A worker co-operative. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/47xnyb37
@simonduffy.bsky.social
Philosopher and social activist with interest in self-directed support, basic income, neighbourhood democracy, neighbourhood care and anything else that helps create a world where everyone matters (and chippy Northerner). https://citizen-network.org
@mssophiaparker.bsky.social
“What if what we see of the world around us is really just what we’ve been told to see?… when we start to let our curiosity wander, we start to see there are other ways things can be” — Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan https://www.jrf.org.uk/our-people/sophia-parker
@cdoyle34.bsky.social
chartered town planner at the interface of academia and practice— here mostly talking about Scottish community landownership and Land Reform.
@seloncommenergy.bsky.social
Selce is a co-operative combatting climate change and fuel poverty via community energy. Contact us on 0204 566 5764 for advice on your energy bills or support going green. www.selce.org.uk.
@rachelblakemp.bsky.social
Cities of London & Westminster MP, Labour and Co-operative. Email rachel.blake.mp@parliament.uk
@tomrailton.bsky.social
Head of Comms and Politics at Prospect union. Mainly politics and Newcastle United on here.
@okwonga.bsky.social
In between daydreaming in cafés and on trains, I write books, I talk about football, and I teach in schools. Blog: https://okwonga.substack.com Books: https://www.musaokwonga.com Poems: https://www.instagram.com/okwonga/ Podcast: https://stadio.football/
@alfiesteer.bsky.social
Historian of the Labour Left. Articles and book reviews in Tribune, Jacobin, Political Insight, Contemporary British History, English Historical Review, Modern British History. Organised 'Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On.'
@lisebutler.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Modern History at City, University of London. Interested in the history of the British left and futures past. Author of Michael Young, Social Science and the British Left, 1945-70. Co-editor, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy
@paulettehamiltonmp.bsky.social
Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Erdington | Former NHS nurse Email: paulette.hamilton.mp@parliament.uk Website: https://paulettehamilton.org/
@lukealsford.bsky.social
Journalist in London (Metro and News Associates) aspiring to tell and break the stories that matter across society - DMs are always open. 🏳️🌈 https://lukealsford.journoportfolio.com
@idoneathunk.bsky.social
here to help you find people doing good things 💚 post-capitalist solutions: co-ops, community, renewables, permaculture, prefigurative politics there's a bright future ahead if we choose to build it 💚 https://communitychangemenu.wordpress.com/ 🇵🇸
@leahdavis.bsky.social
Interested in social inequalities and the environment, especially where they overlap. Head of Policy and External Affairs @thinknpc.bsky.social. Coordinate the #EveryonesEnvironment campaign. Views all my own.
@richardhull54.bsky.social
P/T lecturer 0.2 in Social Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, London, + semi-retired. Views my own. Climate Justice, Stop Ecocide, Critical Management Studies, Solidarity Economy, 💙. https://www.gold.ac.uk/icce/staff/r-hull/ N🚫 DMs - you WILL be blocked
@andrewlewinmp.bsky.social
Labour MP for Welwyn Hatfield🌹 Chair UK Business & Trade Commission / Member of MHCLG Select Ctte Chair APPGs for New Towns & Cricket www.andrewlewin.co.uk
@ccavaille.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School (U-M). If you are looking for a book titled "Fair Enough?" here it is 👇 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366038 https://a.co/d/b6yL5d3
@davidedgerton.bsky.social
Historian, currently at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. https://www.davidedgerton.org/
@natandoron.bsky.social
London... British Israeli... #COYS ... Politics... Leonard Cohen / Wilco / Mercury Rev / Shalom Hanoch / De La Soul / A Tribe Called Quest / Nina Simone / Jeff Buckley / anything by the Finn brothers etc
@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/
@sarahlonglands.bsky.social
Chief Executive of Centre for Local Economic Strategies.@clesthinkdo.bsky.social.
@demos-uk.bsky.social
Demos is a champion of people, ideas and democracy. Sign up to our weekly newsletter: https://demos.co.uk/support/
@wonkcomms.bsky.social
What's the future for think tank & research communications? #wonkcomms is a collaborative project. This account rotates.
@goodgrowthfdn.bsky.social
The Good Growth Foundation is a new non-profit that campaigns for a fairer economy, so growth can work for good. https://www.goodgrowthfoundation.co.uk https://x.com/GoodGrowthFdn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-good-growth-foundation
@younityuk.bsky.social
On a mission to supercharge UK community energy ⚡ Connect volunteers | Provide funding | Buy clean energy 🤝 Please email together@younity.coop for any enquiries 💚
@alexfoxshared.bsky.social
Delivery Director at IMPOWER, Trustee AFG, NHS Assembly Member. Author: Escaping the Invisible Asylum (Policy Press). AlexFoxBlog.wordpress.com Former: CEO, Shared Lives Plus; Vice chair, Think Local Act Personal.
@lucysym.bsky.social
External Affairs Officer - Power to Change https://www.powertochange.org.uk/