Progressive voices doing UK broadcast media
A selection of people in the UK doing progressive broadcast media appearances
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@kevinjgsmith.bsky.social
@rubylottlavigna.bsky.social
investigations @Global_Witness / previously pol cor @openDemocracy @VICEWorldNews @VICEUK
@raheelmohammed.bsky.social
Founder and director of Maslaha Challenging systemic racism and building alternative community structures Work covers the criminal legal system, education, health, gender rights, and the arts Writer and creator of The Future Is Muslim podcast
@marielvilella.bsky.social
A Catalan based in Manchester (UK), leading GAIA’s global climate work with regional teams, members, and allies, bringing frontline communities to the forefront of climate solutions. Big foodie, super mum, nature-books-films lover, she/her.
@ritaissa.bsky.social
MD & academic working on the health impacts of climate change, power, and regenerative futures
@caffeinurse.bsky.social
Coffee-based life form. CPN in Salford. SJA volunteer. Anti-racist. #ActuallyAutistic, knitter/crocheter, hiker, cyclist, boardgamer. Views my own. (they/them) #NurseSky #NurseTwitter
@ajschonfield.bsky.social
Refugee and migrant rights advocate // Founder & CEO @oursecondhome.org.uk // AWFC masochist // Unsubtly bearded // Unfathomably Jewish // he/him
@tessakhan.bsky.social
Exec Director & founder, Uplift; "provocative and not entirely without merit" according to Energy Voice, Standard disclaimers, incl. that all views are my own.
@heidichow.bsky.social
Executive director at Debt Justice (formerly Jubilee Debt Campaign) Personal tweets #CancelTheDebt
@meadwaj.bsky.social
Economist. Host of the weekly Macrodose podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/macrodosepod.bsky.social
@laurenthesunflower.bsky.social
campaigning against new fossil fuels @StopCambo.bsky.social media interviews: media@upliftuk.org all other requests DM only views my own. Glaswegian 🏴❤️
@jbnwogbo.bsky.social
Lead Campaigner at We Own It. Owner of a PhD in Philosophy from Sussex. Just here in case Bluesky suddenly blows up.
@efuapokuamanfo.bsky.social
Research Fellow @IPPR Education, Social Inequality, Food.
@jahangiralom.bsky.social
Emergency medicine doctor interested in a fairer and healthier society. Board Member @ IPPR Governor @ Stepney All Saints School Programme Director @ Selfless UK Doctor @ Barts Health NHS Trust
@praneshippr.bsky.social
Research Fellow at IPPR thinking about a fairer, sustainable and more productive economy
@domtheowl.bsky.social
Oft likened to owls 🦉 / Head of Influencing & Comms @StudentMindsOrg 🧡 / Member @UKLabour ❤️ / Alum @NHSEYouthForum 💙 / Trustee @yorkunisu /Gaymer 🏳️🌈🎮
@graceblakeley.substack.com
Read Vulture Capitalism ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/Grace.blakeley
@daliagebrial.bsky.social
Lecturer/Asst Prof @ King’s College London Host @ Novara Live Agent: Emma Paterson @ aitken alexander Writing a book on why capitalism is structurally racist
@adelewalton.bsky.social
Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World 📘 Online Safety Campaigner and Journalist Co-founder of Logging Off Club www.adelesnotes.co.uk
@mollyfleming.bsky.social
Comms nerd @NEON_UK, training and pitching progressive voices for TV and radio. she/her
@chaitanyakumar.bsky.social
Campaigner and policy wonk on all things climate and energy. Current head of economy and environment at the New Economics Foundation. Formerly at Green Alliance and 350.org
@miriambrett.bsky.social
Co-Director Future Economy Scotland | Green New Deal Rising board | Common Wealth advisory panel | My own views | she/her
@cockney-rebel.bsky.social
Co-Executive Director of @equalitytrust.bsky.social. Working to challenge concentrations of income, wealth and power so that everyone can have a good life 🌺🌸🌼 Sign up to our weekly newsletter https://equalitytrust.org.uk/sign-our-newsletter/
@ellenrgibson.bsky.social
Head of Organising @gndrising.bsky.social 🌤️✊⚽️🏳️🌈🇵🇸 📍 SE London
@seemasyeda.bsky.social
Marseille-London. Global liberation from below. Research & activism on Islamophobia. Co-author, Creeping Fascism. She/They. Talking about class, colonialism, race & revolutions. Own views.
@ewanmg.bsky.social
🎓Law Professor @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social + CBR, Cambridge 🌹Labour law, enterprise law, pensions, corporations, human rights 🌍Cares about economic democracy, reversing climate damage + making big tech safe 🕸️ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ewan-mcgaughey
@smhall.bsky.social
Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. Co-Ed @areajournal.bsky.social. My views. She/Her 🐕🍕📚🍓🌷
@andrewmeyerson.uk
NHS A&E Doctor // SOSNHS // Neurodivergent // 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧 https://linktr.ee/andrewmeyerson
@rickburgess.bsky.social
He/They Dissident. Pondering an anti-social model of disability?!?! If I ever get the time and energy I like to compose odd music. Otherwise - Ask me about my initialisms: GMCDP, MDPAC, RITB, CSMH, DBW, DPHRN.
@savanqadir.bsky.social
Social Justice Campaigner| Activist | Writer | doing and done : (BA Hons) Politics, Philosophy and Economic- & Law LLB - @SNPBAME Political Education Officer- Co-author of few books. I support Scottish 🏴 independence.
@lmacfarlane.bsky.social
Co-director @FutureEconScot.bsky.social Fellow UCL IIPP and the Democracy Collaborative. Co-author ‘Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing’
@satbirsingh.bsky.social
Campaigner, consultant, carer. Londoner via Delhi & NYC. I spend my time thinking about rights, justice & authoritarianism. Former CEO of openDemocracy, JCWI. Ex UN/World Bank/Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. Trustee @PraxisProjects.bsky.social
@drabioconnor.bsky.social
Urban Sociologist. Researcher @neweconomics.bsky.social Fellow @ Uni of Liverpool. PhD ✍️ political economy of housing/land, spatial inequality, local gov/politics & stigma. Fullback ⚽️ Union rep. ✊Organising w Liverpool Residents Action et al 📍UK
@lukehildyard.bsky.social
Director: High Pay Centre think tank, author: 'Enough - Why it's time to abolish the super rich' Work on inequality, economic democracy, corporate power etc Book via https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348568/enough
@robertnpalmer.bsky.social
Deputy Director, Uplift. Campaigning for a rapid & fair transition away from oil & gas production in the UK. Ex-Tax Justice UK & Global Witness. He/him 🏳️🌈. All views are my own.
@ruthhannan.bsky.social
One half of Care Full with Hannah Webster. Formally, RSA, People’s Powerhouse & Carers Trust
@jomichell.bsky.social
Professor of economics at UWE Bristol. Chair of Post-Keynesian Economics Society. Interested in macro, finance, banking, climate change, inequality, demographics. https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/JoMichell
@asliatay.bsky.social
Senior Policy Adviser at the Work Foundation. Interested in labour market and health. Previously at the Learning& Work Institute and Demos. Istanbulite living in London. Currently on maternity leave but still checks here! https://asliatay.substack.com/
@mikebankole.bsky.social
I research and write about race, racism, representation and British politics Usually on @novaramedia.com and @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
@davidwearing.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously). Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
@msingerhobbs.bsky.social
Senior research fellow @ippr.bsky.social - climate, transport, planning | PhD from CSCT Bath | she/her (views my own)
@loucalvey.bsky.social
Asylum Rights Campaigning. Migrant & Human Rights advocacy. She/Her 🏳🌈 🧡
@minnierahman.bsky.social
CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
@thediyora.bsky.social
journalist, writer, progressive comms🌿 hothouse bookclub co-organiser email: diyora.shadijanova@gmail.com website: diyorashadijanova.xyz she/they
@fraserjfstewart.bsky.social
Making clean energy work against poverty, inequality and injustice. Believer in big ideas. Working class bairn at heart. Scottish/UK, climate, energy, people power, class and justice.
@simonlewis.bsky.social
They say I’m outspoken. Professor of Global Change Science at UCL and University of Leeds. Author, The Human Planet. Trying to understand the world and change it too.
@lowwintersun.bsky.social
Live near Manchester (UK), work on citizen-led/co-op approaches to the energy transition as a way to tackle climate change. Interested in politics, urban design, anarchism, co-ops and football (not necessarily in that order).
@crisortunity.bsky.social
Trouble making. Problem solving. Doing my best to help. Climate action, Badvertising, bike lanes, frequent flyer levy, solar rail @crisortunity@urbanists.social currently focused on www.ridingsunbeams.org
@josiah.writes.news
Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I write the 'On the Ground' column in our print edition. Interested in democracy & protest. 'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson Content may include my cat, and bits of music. Got a story? Get in touch
@danielsohege.bsky.social
Director of human rights consultancy Stand For All. Specialist in refugee and migrants' law, rights policy, comms and advocacy. NOT A LAWYER. Also talking about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. (They/them). Purely my views, no-one else would want them.
@carsjung.bsky.social
Head of macroeconomics & AI @IPPR. Former Bank of England economist and IMF fellow.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social
UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
@kevinjgsmith.bsky.social
I train and fix up progressive voices for UK TV and radio. Broadcast media nerd. Into politics, climate & energy, social justice issues, #lgbtqia, disco history, trouble making, media stuff, he/him