Political soothsayer, now writing underclass.substack.com Used to write the Diary of a Benefit Scrounger @Suey2y on Twitter
Writing the stories of the people policy affects. Ranting, Polling and probably a bit of RuPaul
Postdoc Researcher, Studying Parliaments and the Role of Knowledge, University of Edinburgh (https://www.project-spark.net/)
Focused on the Spanish and Catalan parliaments | PhD in Social Policy
Exec member & comms at the UK Social Policy Association
Flagship journal of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/home/psx
Catholic, Anti-poverty campaigner and worker. Passion about about social justice, Man. United and musical theatre.
A Crip led grassroots group working Nationally to fight Government Cuts and reduce isolation through community.
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Creating a wilder smallholding in the Welsh borders. Mostly moths, sometimes butterflies, other inverts + wildflowers
Wonky body. Assistance dog handler. Yarn engineer. Politics nerd. 🏳️🌈 They/She
CEO and founder of Resolve Poverty - working locally to end poverty nationally.
Disabled People's Organisation (100% exec & staff are disabled people working from Social Model of Disability & Disability Justice)
#RightsNotCharity
https://gmcdp.com
Christian, Husband to Jay, Dad of Aoife, Welsh exile, Pastor of Eyres Monsell Community Church in Leicester (ForTheMonsell.co.uk)
Host of the Untangled Faith Podcast
https://untangledfaithpodcast.com/
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/
Chronic Illnesses + Autoimmune Disorders R no laughing matter but my humorous posts will make U feel better for while. https://chronicillnesstees.etsy.com
https://mybodyistryingtokillme.com/
https://www.redbubble.com/people/ChronicillnessT
#chronicillness
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh. Welfare state, social security, (un)employment, poverty, policy-making. Views own, RTs not endorsements. https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/hayley-bennett
life-courses & futures | austerity & crisis | europe | creative oral histories | solidarity infrastructure | anti-poverty | Uni of Manchester | UKRI funded 2021-2029 🍞🌹
https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/research/austerityalters/
Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. My views. She/Her
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British Academy Fellow researching insecure work, activation & work-related conditionality
Based at Work and Equalities Institute, University of Manchester. Visiting Fellow, CASE, LSE
Queer, enby (they/them), wheelchair using scientist ♿🌈 M.E/CFS, endometriosis, autism, mental health issues (and more!). Gamer 🎲🎮 Pagan. Work in cancer research. 🧬 Yorkshire. @WheelerDax on X.
Research and Policy Manager at moneyandmentalhealth.org
Rapier Instructor at londonhistoricalfencing.club
Views my own, reposts not endorsements etc
He/Him
A UK-wide campaign run by Disabled people, for Disabled people, run by a local charity @inclusionbarnet.bsky.social
Join a growing movement calling for a decent life for Disabled people: https://buff.ly/IZDn3T5
Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity and Past President of the World Medical Association
NHS Acute Hosp Dr 37 y. GER/GIM. Ex DH Nat Clin Dir. Lapsed Academic. Policy Think Tanker. Ex BGS/RCP Pres/VP
Med Journalism. Byline: @BMJ_latest. Columns: health press newspapers. @mjauk
Manc-in-South. MCFC. Craic, Schlock, Sharing, Learning, Friends
In-depth reporting on issues affecting disabled people in the UK since 2009. www.disabilitynewsservice.com
Deputy ed at Inside Housing
Work on local government policy and strategy - mostly health related, also currently working on engagement and participation. Curious about pretty much everything else. Some singing. Cats. (Politically restricted)
Deputy General Secretary at the Fabian Society | regional economies, devolution, productivity, industrial strategy, employment rights, employment support, transport, politics | Views are my own | 🏴
https://fabians.org.uk/about-us/meet-our-experts/
Community Development Course Lead & Lecturer Nazarene Theological College in Manchester, UK. Determined to disagree well,listen hard & love big! Nazarene.ac.uk
Disability Rights Activist - DPAC
Co founder of Bromley & Croydon DPAC
Disability Rights Advocate
Trade Unionist - Unite
NHS Activist
Dad, cook, pianist, economist, Harvard, King's London, Holocaust Fdn co-Chair, NCFC, podcaster, retired dancer, former Cabinet minister, sometimes on TV & Radio
Qualitative researcher - interested in lived experiences of chronic illness/ energy limiting conditions #PPI #spoonie
Writer, editor, analyst. Disability employment rights advocate.
Trade union disability rep. Arts, science and languages nerd, internationalist, hiker, nature lover. Could really do without Long Covid
Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker.
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces. she/her. Views own
Live in Scotland
Researcher working on social security policy and economic inequality. British Academy postdoc @ London School of Economics Methodology.
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, CSS, DPHRN.
Founder, Disability Insight. Independent research and policy consultant on disability employment and social security. Founded Chronic Illness Inclusion. #pwME and survivor of medical abuse.
Professor of Human Geography at Uni of Liverpool, research on chronic illness, energy limiting conditions, fat embodiment. Feminist, Fat Activist, Spoonie, PwME, Friend, Sister, Daughter, Person. Hobbies: SF, cats, knitting/crochet. she/her or they/their 🏳️⚧️
Here for when the other place implodes. Disability rights. Fair society. Animal rescue. Likes spreadsheets, clean air and FFP3 masks. Reads Hansard. Swears. UBI nerd.
Swears - in case you missed it the first time.
Changing the evangelical conversation about sex and marriage! Author of The Great Sex Rescue and The Marriage You Want. Find me at BareMarriage.com. Twitter/X handle @sheilagregoire
Policy & Research Manager at the Standard Life Centre for the Future of Retirement. Previously a researcher at Demos and the Institute for Government. Views my own.
https://www.standardlife.co.uk/centre-for-the-future-of-retirement
Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC: Barrister, Cross-bench Peer, Independent Prevent Commissioner; HL Constitution Cttee; Chair Inter Mediate, @uclei.bsky.social; Vis Prof KCL; AFPS; ex-indept reviewer terrorism legn; history, nature, sea kayaking, Suffolk
Economist working in capital markets ▪ Big on placemaking, housing, regeneration ▪ Inspired by systems thinking and servant leadership ▪ FRSA
❤️ cycling & running in the Peak District & on Zwift 🚵🏻♂️🏃
@SfpLouise on X, much prefer to be here!
Anti Brexit, pro immigration, humanist, (actually Marxist), studied & am passionate about politics & economics. Hate current journey of travel in UK, US & on X. Diminished by Long Covid, Fibro, ME & PoTS.
Formerly Reform think tank. Re:State is an independent, cross-party public services think tank. We don’t want to tweak, we want to transform.
The official bluesky account of Foxes In Love!
UK in a Changing Europe is an academic think tank providing impartial, research-based analysis of the critical issues facing the UK.
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/
Media Editor for @theguardian.com. Likes ≠ endorsements, obv. Story? 👇👇👇
Michael.savage@theguardian.com
Need a secure way to contact me? Signal username: word_builder.20
Principal Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - UK poverty, social policy, politics, research and data. Occasionally crochet, gigs and nature
Interim Director of Policy, Citizens Advice. Policy stuff, data, graphs, that kind of thing.
Economics, Cities, Policy.
Professor, London School of Economics. Research Director Centre for Economic Performance @cep-lse.bsky.social. Director @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social. President @urbaneconomics.bsky.social
Employment, labour markets and social inclusion. Personal views etc.
Senior Economist at the Resolution Foundation, focusing on employment, young people and health | views my own
Always searching for good coffee.
Research, analysis & grey-skies thinking on labour markets, social security, public finance & equality. Usual disclaimer. Cheap foreign labour 🇮🇪. Profile pic is Takashi Shimura with Toshiro Mifune in Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, 1949).
Labour MP for Birkenhead, Minister of State for Local Government and homelessness. Progressive.
www.alisonmcgovern.org.uk
MP for Birmingham Yardley
Esotericist, Hegelian, Kabbalist, Chaldean NeoPlatonist/Hermeticist, Panentheist, Alchemist, Marxist
Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
https://linktr.ee/outreachdude?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=29e17572-80f4-4f09-8b7d-859d503f6289
Writer, lecturer (pastoral theology), speaker. Author of Those Who Wait (+ more). Writing on Christian #faith, trauma, #disability & #chronic illness, Bible. Housebound w/ M.E. #MyalgicE. Spirituality, suffering, soc justice & all the big questions.
Head of Policy, Campaigns & Public Affairs at Mind | NHS Mental Health Social Worker | Previously at NEF & DWP | Views expressed here my own
(Eóin) Care about fixing poverty, protecting our NHS & eradicating homelessness (Green Party) Mark 12:41-44
Reading, writing, pictures, and ducks.
Solicitor. Done housing law since 2006. The Guardian says top 5 for squalor. Legal Aid Housing Lawyer of 2018. Co-author of Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. ‘Not an academic authority’ - Judge Carr. https://nearlylegal.co.uk
Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
Deputy Chief Executive Resolution Foundation, CPAG Trustee & Visiting Prof in Practice at LSE Social Policy. 'Calm, Measured, Withering' http://tinyurl.com/y6wxlxhj). 'Cool, calm analysis' (More or Less, 8/10/25). He/him
Policy wonk, spad, consultant, writer, Londoner. Housing, urbanism and transport mainly.
Professor of Social & Public Policy at University of Glasgow
Perimenopausal | neurodivergent | navigating parenting kids with SEND
Researcher-activist.
Research associate, Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social
Disabled, neurodivergent (they/them) 🏳️🌈♿️♾️ #DisabilityStudies Reposting is not endorsement.
At the Gates: Disability, Justice & the Churches https://bit.ly/3YMoUaE
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#DemocracyNow Supp: @greenpartynorwich @progintl_en @GreenpeaceUK @goodlawproject @mindcharity @trusselluk
Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
Social change, social care, social life.
DCL is a nonprofit disability media and narrative lab, by and for disabled folks. We exist to dismantle ableism and celebrate disabled community and culture.
https://linktr.ee/disabilityculturelab
Writer. Books include A Crack in Everything, Breakthrough, The Ascent of Gravity, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You & Solar System for iPad. See www.marcuschown.com
Senior fellow in public health and health inequalities at The King's Fund (https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/). Bit of a magpie, don't necessarily agree with those i (re)share. Also over at twitter @davidjbuck.
Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
Political Theorist from the University of Cambridge.
New Open Access Article: https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310251393914
Edinburgh UP Book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-legitimacy-in-liberal-democracies.html
Writer and broadcaster. Previously New Statesman senior editor.
Partner at the Good Faith Partnership. Director of the Warm Welcome Campaign. Lover of anything vaguely competitive.
Church of England Parliamentary office, working with Lords Spiritual, MPs, Peers & staff in Palace of Westminster. Account maintained by @richardachapman.bsky.social
www.churchinparliament.org
Consultant psychotherapist/ disability activist/ bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Worker, future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake ❤️🥄💜🎭🦓🥄🏳️🌈
#MadSky #TraumaNotPD #Disability #Neurodivergent #Mad https://t.co/83d2Ztwpp2
Professor of Quantitative Social Sciences, University of Sheffield. Multilevel models, age period cohort, Intersectionality, etc https://linktr.ee/andrewjdbell
Labour market stats wonk: default mode: cynical. Boosts are not endorsements and may be ironic. Also on avian-dinosaur-site @PaulBivand
Associate Professor of Political Science, UCL. Studying political economy, welfare reforms, public opinion, European and British politics. He/him 🏳️🌈
Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://peteapps.substack.com
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A tech geek that will discuss just about anything: Technology, Business, Music, Movies with some politics sprinkled in for flavor.
I do follow back, I do engage, and I post way too often.
I also speak fluent sarcasm.
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Author of the NYT bestseller The Deficit Myth. Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Stony Brook University. Writer of newsletter https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/
Building a world where we work to live, not live to work. Website: 4dayweek.co.uk | Instagram: 4dayweekcampaign
