Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com) Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two. Senior fellow: Institute for Government

Education and politics obsessive. (Whisky Sheep and Travel too)

Passionate, still, re CPDL (don't forget the L) for educators & their leaders

Partner, Public First and Head of Education Practice. Education strategy + policy advisory. Former civil servant + think tanker. Occasional loud LFC. Centrist Dad, so naturally I also have a Substack.

Senior Researcher/Clerk at the House of Commons Library, researching Asia, Americas and the NI Protocol. War Studies alumnus. Follow for tepid takes on uncontroversial subjects.

CEO, Nesta and Behavioural Insights Team. Governor, Health Foundation. What I do: applied research, venture building, policy. Particularly in net zero, education and health.

Research Fellow at IFS and EPI, independent consultant, posts about about school funding, education, inequalities and cycling

The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective. ➡ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities https://linktr.ee/instituteforgov

Co-founder and Chief Analyst, Teacher Tapp, surveying over 12,000 teachers every day.

Recovering politician, writes columns, editor of The Case For The Centre Right.

Professor of Politics.

ft reporter. south london nationalist. articles with my byline get posted automagically on @cook.report

Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter

Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman. Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth• Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops. Kill All The Lawyers coming Sept 2027…

#1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.

European political economy and geoeconomics commentator. Publisher of the Wealth of Nations newsletter. Previously chief Europe commentator @WSJ, chief leader writer @TheTimes. Runner, cold water swimmer, aspiring chef. https://nixons.substack.com/

Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player.

Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. No Phd! Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)

Programme Director for IFG Academy @instituteforgov.bsky.social + history, Whitehall geekiness and constitutional agony aunt Subscribe to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/3dxiJ5J

Member of Parliament for Swansea West

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/

Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com

Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12. Website: lewisgoodall.com Email: lewis.goodall@global.com Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com

Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).

Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️ https://www.adambienkov.co.uk

Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics

jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com

Trade wonk, Brexit bore, globalisation defender, music lover, cricketer, gardener, supporter of mediocre football teams, who knows where the time goes?

CEO and founder Unlocked Graduates Board for Children’s Commissioner, Impetus, Get Further & The Times Crime and Justice commissioner. Young Australian of the year in the UK 2025. Into all things education/prison reform/leadership

Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular

Deputy editor at Schools Week • mainly investigating SEND • Sam is fine • Press Awards specialist journalist of 2025 • @schoolsweek.bsky.social

CEO of The British School in the Netherlands.

Former Treasury official

Chief features writer, Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance

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The bloke who presents the BBC Radio 4 PM programme as well as the Bottom Line. And Dragons Den on BBC1. I try to be reasonable, but it is sometimes a struggle.

Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Previously at, and now teaching @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur

ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar

Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.

BBC Technology Editor 🤖

Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI. All views strictly my own. Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com

Educational realist, Diehard edu myth-buster, Grumpy Old Man, Emeritus Prof. Educational Psychology Open Universiteit, Guest Prof. Thomas More Uni (Belgium), owner kirschner-ED

Chief Executive, Advantage Schools

School governor, amateur gardener, expert tea drinker, chocoholic.

Defence Editor at The Economist. Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi

Jewish. Deputy Editor of Jewish News. Resh Galuta of Bluesky. Regular entrant on the NY Times Bestseller List of Unpublished Books. All opinions are mine.

Britain's leading aggregator for polling, forecasts and election results. Run by @bwalker.uk. Est. 2013 with the late, great, Lily Jayne Summers.

Professor in Mathematics Education, Director of Research, @MASEsoton, TIMSS+PISA, Research Methods, R, School Mathematics Project

World-leading @ucl.ac.uk research and teaching in education, culture, psychology and social science, right here in the heart of London and beyond. ucl.ac.uk/ioe #WeAreIOE

On the lookout for other people’s opinions about England’s schools and college. Try to keep my own to myself but not often successful. jl@schoolsweek.co.uk | 07597 054499 | https://schoolsweek.co.uk | https://feweek.co.uk | https://educationfest.co.uk

Professor of Teacher Education, Director of CollectivED, humanist, activist scholar, teacher.

Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6

Education Finance and Business expert. Multi Academy Trust Chair. Cat lover. Rubbish runner

CEO of BERA.ac.uk. Chair of Governors #stjohnsdigswell. Education, integration, politics with a bit of cricket thrown in.

Chief executive of the Confederation of School Trusts

Academic #education #adultdevpsychology #edleadership. Chartered Psychologist. PhD AED &sch leadership TF'11. Assoc. Dean @Ambition_Inst Hon. Senior Research Fellow, Uni. Of Worcester. Views my own.

Trust Leader (CELT, Cornwall) Educator Live in beautiful Devon All views my own

Adviser @aqaeducation.bsky.social, MAT and @RSPH.bsky.social trustee, ex-senior civil servant; classical music, #LCFC 🦊, England⚽️🏏, walks, photos, words (no politics); husband, father, generally curious https://substack.com/@jembenson 📍 Leicestershire, UK

Edu-policy specialist. Chief Research Officer @centreedusyst.bsky.social Teacher, teacher trainer & youth-worker first ✍️Writing📖 on policy making 🎓Academically affiliated Jesus College Cam/Sheffield IoE 🧗Often Climbing

Education bridges the gap between the disadvantages of the past and the opportunities of the future. 33 years an English teacher. Now work for a Diocese Education Office. Also gigs, gardens, school governance, gyms #edugym and Jack Russells.

Deputy CEO of the Confederation of School Trusts (CST). All opinions are my own.

Storyteller Teacher Writer Speaker Humourist Weaving stories into curriculum Masters in Ed and Poverty @JollyBoysBrewery.bsky.social JAWS Finatic Movies and Music Double Bass The North #Botheredness #UKTeaching🎓 #Edusky #UKed #MDANT www.botheredness.co.uk

Director of Education at No More Marking, an ed tech start-up. Author of 3 books about education & 1 about football. West Ham & cricket fan. Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://substack.nomoremarking.com

Behaviour advisor to the UK Department of Education. Founder of researchED. Professor of School Behaviour. Academica University of Applied Science.

The national charity for effective professional development in schools. Helping leaders build stronger schools through effective professional development. #ukteaching

Head of Science. T&L Lead Practitioner. Curriculum. CogSci. CogSciSci. Assessment. Evidence informed edu. Chemistry. MA Expert Teaching. #UKTeaching Blog: elementsoflearning.home.blog

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OBE Emeritus Prof, Education Policy Advisor Visiting Prof UoS, Former Founding Director of SIoE,Chair of DfE ITT CCF Group, PFHEA FCCT. Proud Cumbrian Samantha.twiselton@shu.ac.uk

Co-Founder of TeacherTapp, daily poll of 12k teachers. Former editor of Schools Week & Guardian columnist. Once a teacher, always a teacher. SAY: Laura 'Mack & Ernie' (like there's 3 of us!)

Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea

Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365

Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com

Senior data scientist @instituteforgovernment.org.uk • Words and numbers on what the govt is up to, edu policy, doing data at a thinktank • Bilingual: 🐍/SQL • Sign up to the IfG newsletter: http://bit.ly/3xDINTz

Education economist at NFER researching recruitment and retention in the education workforce

Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694 Evertonian

Chair: RUSI, Conservative European Forum, Koenigswinter Conference & Aurora Forum. Trustee, Institute for Govt. History, singing & hill walking enthusiast. Ex-Minister & MP.

Book writer ("How to Win a Trade War") Economics columnist at the Financial Times https://www.ft.com/soumaya-keynes Host of The Economics Show podcast https://link.chtbl.com/economicsshow Singer-songwriter http://bit.ly/2Z6gvjp

BBC News Home and Legal Correspondent. // Stories // Features // Analysis // Documentaries // The Mafia Man in the Lancashire Caravan: http://bbc.in/2UV2ILv Linktree and contact details: https://linktr.ee/bbcdomc

I am UK/Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. Police, prisons, law, crime and terrorism. Before that Moscow Correspondent so still post about Russia/Ukraine.

Contributing Editor at Prospect Magazine; Principal Editor at Resolution Foundation

Chief political commentator, The Independent, and visiting professor, the Strand Group, King's College London

Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705

Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)

Chief Economist, Institute for Government Formerly Economics Correspondent at the Financial Times and Programme Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Programme Director at the Institute for Government - interested in how government works and how it can work better 🏳️‍🌈

Programme Director at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk working on public services

Chief Executive, Nuffield Foundation Previous lives: Chief Executive & Exec. Chair, Resolution Foundation Founding Chair, Living Wage Commission Deputy Chief of Staff, 10 Downing Street Council of Economic Advisors, HMT

Executive Director, Institute for Government. Ex-Cabinet Office, Defra, Dept of Health. Interested in all things good government

Economics and policy

Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist

CEO of the Institute for Government

Pensions Minister 2010-15; Partner LCP; all posts personal views steve.webb@lcp.uk.com

Fixing the problems Britain faces after Brexit. Change Minds → Change Politics CEO @pimlicat.bsky.social GUEST ~AA @SturdyAlex.bsky.social

Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com

Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania