Steve Skelton
Practitioner policy wonk | Founder www.questionfactory.co.uk | Trustee @mysociety | Ex- Demos, LGA, Stockport Council, GMCA, Govt of Jersey
@productivity.bsky.social
ESRC-funded research organisation bringing together world-leading experts from a range of disciplines and backgrounds. Headquarters at Alliance Manchester Business School.
@50501movement.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement 🚨 Next up: June 14th 🇺🇸 Join the Movement > https://FiftyFifty.one
@paulgaskincfs.bsky.social
Director General, Planning, Operations and Information / Canadian Forest Service / Natural Resources Canada 🔥🌳🌲🪵🐛🪲🪳🍁🍃🌿🧬🔬 Science / Government / Technology |EN/FR/ES| Views my own linkedin.com/in/gaskinp/ EN/FR/ES | Views my own
@ldfreedman.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
@jjmclaughlin.bsky.social
Humble functionary #localgov 🏛️ #localdemocracy 🗳️ #dcfc 🐏 Uisce beatha 🥃 European Freeloader 🇪🇺
@mayorofgm.bsky.social
Official account for the Mayor of Greater Manchester. This account's not fully up and running yet (bear with us), so we may not see your comments. Give us a follow and we'll be here soon.
@juddlegum.bsky.social
I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47 | Text: 202-599-7124 Popular.info
@merseysidelabour.bsky.social
bsky feed of the Merseyside Labour Social Media Network 🌹 #LiverpoolLabour #KnowsleyLabour #WirralLabour #StHelensLabour #SeftonLabour #HaltonLabour
@jomillernz.bsky.social
Rebel daughter of Liverpool & citizen of Aotearoa. CE @huttcitycouncil. President @taituarā. @lfc forever. YNWA
@marksandford.bsky.social
Local and regional government, funding issues, national and regional identity; mostly writing for the House of Commons Library but elsewhere too. Occasional attempts at folk music, cycling, making food
@blangry.bsky.social
Study: Oxford (DPhil anthropology of civic tech). Work: Public Digital. High expectations of the world: seldom met. Recent Norwich arrival.
@tonymoretta.bsky.social
@generalboles.bsky.social
Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular
@72prufrocks.bsky.social
Growing food & community, doing local democracy & digital, building cathedrals & connections. Work: democracy & citizen engagement. Writer, artist, activist, unapologetic idealistic. I am still #Notwestminster
@madlabuk.bsky.social
We're a grassroots digital innovation organisation. madlab.org.uk Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bbX_-/
@gracepollard.bsky.social
Head of Policy and Insights @wearenewlocal.bsky.social local government, community power, innovation in public services, devolution. Views own.
@katejosephs.bsky.social
CEO Sheffield City Council. Proud public servant. Together we get things done.
@jphipps.bsky.social
Deputy Director, Innovation Growth Lab (Nesta) https://www.innovationgrowthlab.org/ Also here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-phipps-007z/
@noelito7.bsky.social
Assistant Director for People and Change at @adurandworthing. Inspired by @francescaalbanese.bsky.social
@annkempster.com
Public sector agitator for good. Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds. Digital. 🏴 She/her.
@majeedneky.bsky.social
Place, policy, politics, piss-taking, parenting. AD Economy, West London Alliance. Previously Levelling Up Task Force, Department for International Trade (RIP), Infrastructure and Projects Authority, Cities and Local Growth Unit, #localgov
@markowers.bsky.social
Proud social worker & system reformer, championing change and empowering foster carers to transform lives. #FosterCare #SocialWork #SystemReform
@localpartnerships.bsky.social
Local Partnerships is jointly owned by the Local Government Association, HM Treasury and the Welsh Government - delivering value and efficacy for the public purse localpartnerships.gov.uk
@ginapieters.bsky.social
I was an academic economist for over 10 yrs (UMinn, TrinityU, UChicago) now I work as a researcher specializing in macro-system impacts of digital assets, money, & payments (crypto/stablecoins/CBDCs). #EconSky #Chicago www.digitaleconomyconsulting.com
@lucatiratelli.bsky.social
Research & policy @ The King's Fund | Own views | Health, devolution, climate change | He/him | All this from a slice of gabagool?
@karimpalant.bsky.social
Founder of the ‘Globalisation in one country’ movement. Economic policy and politics Ex Facebook Ex LinkedIn Ex Labour Adviser #efc… Posts are all my own views.
@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.
@pjmmor.bsky.social
Health, Comms, Stuff Posts are all my own views, except for random accidental retweets. Occasional tales of allotment mishap and derivative recipes here: https://growingcooking.wordpress.com/
@lukeoliverh.bsky.social
Former child detective. Recovering political advisor. Current Strategic Comms head. Unavoidably tattooed. Perennially underwhelming. Melbourne / Naarm via Cardiff. 🏴🏴🏴
@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.
@cpquigley.bsky.social
Irish in Britain. Transport nerd. Labour. Feminist. Gaeilgeoir. Works in public affairs. Was on a TV quiz show once. Views own. She/her.
@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.
@nickod.bsky.social
Political scientist and occasional policy wonk, interested in big tech, the digital economy, taxation and inequality. Author of Pursuing the Knowledge Economy: https://www.agendapub.com/page/detail/pursuing-the-knowledge-economy/?k=9781788215145 @DrNickOD
@katiepruszynski.bsky.social
Researcher: lies in politics, democracy and polarisation. US politics obsessive. Westminster alumna. SWEARY, not sorry. Feminist, also not sorry.
@robnewmanlab.bsky.social
Views mine. Former Labour candidate/adviser 🌹 West Ham fan ⚒️ Dad to Marvin 🐶
@gavinshuker.bsky.social
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for. Master of carbs cookery.
@mr.place
Place passionate person - aspiring urban fixer - former UK High Street Czar -think tank wonk - ABI survivor - media baron😘 I also cycle and play bass badly, but not to date simultaneously, plus interests in cricket, SAFC, politics & a more equal society.
@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.
@mickswales.bsky.social
North Star Public Affairs - Politics, devolution, all things Yorkshire with a bit of Bradford City and a lot of happy hiking
@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).
@thebriefwriters.com
Politics, policy, music and blah. Partner at thebriefwriters.com, ex Senior Civil Servant, ex Labour Advisor From Stoke on Trent to the Sussex countryside.
@nigelfletcher.bsky.social
UK political historian, lecturer and writer; Co-founder of the Centre for Opposition Studies. Cake, campery & historical/constitutional trivia. 🍰🏳️🌈 📖 🇬🇧 Website: www.nigelfletcher.org Subscribe to my newsletter: https://nigelfletcher.substack.com