Paul Kissack
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.
@tompepinsky.com
Teacher, researcher, globalist, republican. Banned from Russia, because dictators fear the truth. Currently clean on OPSEC. tompepinsky.com
@dylandifford.bsky.social
YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things"
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Powerful citizen journalism from Yorkshire | co-creational media | regulated by IMPRESS https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/ To volunteer as a writer, editor or behind the scenes, email editor@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@jonathanhealey.bsky.social
Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/) Works at Oxford University. Next book, The Blood in Winter, out 2025. ‘This isn’t the Eighties, Pat!’
@wealtherty.bsky.social
Research Fellow at LSE International Inequalities Institute. Materialist feminist. Writes about wealth, poverty and inequality. Books: Wealth, Poverty & Enduring Inequality: Let's talk wealtherty.
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social
25+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / board member, NY City Center
@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social
DPAC is a grass roots campaign group Email: mail@dpac.uk.net
@davidpintod.bsky.social
Labour MP for Hendon. DWP Select Committee. Long career in gov’t and business. Lucky husband. Proud dad. Ever-hopeful Arsenal fan.
@morganbestwick.bsky.social
Senior Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, working on economic security, hardship, employment, job quality. Views my own.
@jesslennox.bsky.social
🌹 Leeds City Councillor and Cabinet Member for Housing, Housing Growth and Homelessness - views my own ✷Socialist, modernist, rambler, occasional DJ✷ Likes to talk policy, equality, poverty, access, arts, pop culture, cities, knitting, new wave She/Her
@handhyorkshire.bsky.social
Independent researcher/writer/broadcaster in the history, heritage and culture sectors. Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Also write's on poverty, community and other things. Regular Bylines Network writer. Servant to a Patterdale
@jessprend.bsky.social
West country girl. Previous soc researcher and think tanker turned social entrepreneur and community enthusiast. Most views strongly held. https://www.onioncollective.co.uk/ https://www.eastquaywatchet.co.uk/
@melissamean.bsky.social
Regenerative neighbourhoods, social infrastructure, community-led housing, just transition. All about making together. Land. Materials. People. Founding Director WeCanMake; Trustee Power to Change; Director MAIA Group. www.wecanmake.org
@jackkessler.bsky.social
I write the newsletter, Lines To Take, bringing you one big story of the day, every day. Sign up for free: https://www.linestotake.com/ I like human rights and French cuisine.
@alexvont.bsky.social
Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
@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
@memckeague.bsky.social
CEO @archhfund.bsky.social | communities, built environment & social infrastructure | interested in all kinds of places | music and running most of the rest of the time
@yorkshirepost.co.uk
Yorkshire's National Newspaper since 1754. Sign up to our newsletters here: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/newsletter Support us here: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/subscriptions
@richardbranson.bsky.social
Screw it, let's do it. Proof it's the real me: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rbranson_richard-branson-richardbransonbskysocial-activity-7267516793689124864--I14 Here's my blog: https://www.virgin.com/branson-
@silenciodogwood.bsky.social
Firm believer in right & obligation of all informed citizens who believe in the common good - Democrat & Republican, Conservative & Liberal, Left, Right & Center - to air views in a free, constructive & polite manner. #resister against authoritarianism
@shashj.bsky.social
Defence Editor at The Economist. Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
@urbaneprofessor.bsky.social
Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, University of Stirling he/him 🏳️🌈 ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
@newseye.bsky.social
A career spent in government affairs & media. Now an interested eye on the news. Not always balanced; there aren’t two sides to fascism or racism. Credit the source. Use ALT text :-)
@samwetherell.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out in 2025: https://www.waterstones.com/book/liverpool-and-the-unmaking-of-britain/sam-wetherell//9781801
@gracewyld.bsky.social
Head of Policy and Research at futuregovernanceforum.co.uk @FutureGovForum.bsky.social
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
@writesbright.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor.
@meadwaj.bsky.social
Economist. Host of the weekly Macrodose podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/macrodosepod.bsky.social
@lukebeardsworth.bsky.social
Blog Preston co-editor / The Lead’s senior editor (North) posting our best from Blackpool, Lancashire, Southport, Teesside and Calderdale / sometimes UCLan lecturer / journalist / parkrun volunteer
@thediyora.bsky.social
journalist, writer, progressive comms🌿 hothouse bookclub co-organiser email: diyora.shadijanova@gmail.com website: diyorashadijanova.xyz she/they
@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.”
@hannahfearn.bsky.social
Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent. Find me in The i Paper, The New European, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
@theleaduk.bsky.social
The Lead is a lean, mean mag on politics, culture and everything in between.
@joesarling.bsky.social
Strategic Director at @gmmoving.co.uk 🐝 Economist working on #systemchange & prevention in physical activity, health & placemaking ▪ Geeky about devolution, housing, social impact ▪ FRSA ❤️ cycling & running in the Peak District & on Zwift 🚵🏻♂️🏃
@emmanorris.bsky.social
Deputy Director of @instituteforgov. Chair of Young Women’s Trust. Think tanker. Westminster watcher. Walthamstow resident. 🏳️🌈
@jessbowie.bsky.social
Co-editor of @civilserviceworld.bsky.social. Civil servants are my bag.
@samfriedman.bsky.social
Professor at LSE Sociology, Co-Editor British Journal of Sociology. Research: class, culture, elites, social mobility. Books: Born to Rule, The Class Ceiling, Comedy and Distinction
@markjnorbury.bsky.social
@unltd @acevo - purpose, impact, entrepreneurship, democracy, equity, progress
@jamesomalley.co.uk
@Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff. Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk #FREETHEPAF
@elizkolbert.bsky.social
I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction."
@cormacrussell.bsky.social
I animate communities & support professionals/orgs working in citizen space. Books include: The Connected Community, and Rekindlling Democracy. More here: https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/who-we-are/cormac-russell/