Thinktank Twitter Accounts

(NEW: the remarkable media activities of rightwing pressure group, The TaxPayers’ Alliance…)

They mostly don’t represent your interests,
they’re well-funded… they frame the “news”…

Following George Monbiot’s article in the Guardian on so-called thinktanks (and their secretive ways), a suggestion was floated (on Twitter) to get these organisations to reveal their funding sources – by contacting and prompting them publicly using Twitter.

Here’s a list of Twitter accounts for UK thinktanks – I will be updating it to make it as comprehensive/useful as possible. The idea is simple: contact a thinktank of your choice and ask them to list all donations/grants (above £1000) received in the last financial year.

@right_to_know
@TheGWPF (The Global Warming Policy Foundation)
@thebowgroup
@BrugesGroup
@UK_CMF (Christian Medical Fellowship)
@asi (Adam Smith Institute)
@Policy_Exchange
@the_tpa (The TaxPayers’ Alliance)
@migrationwatch
@policynetwork (International Policy Network)
@drhelenevans (Nurses for Reform)
@iealondon (Institute of Economic Affairs)
@Civitas_UK
@TheIFS (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
@LegatumInst
@Demos
@JubileeCentre
@UnlockDemocracy
@IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research)
@reformthinktank
@The_IoD (Institute of Directors)
@mutuoUK
@smith_institute
@SMFthinktank (Social Market Foundation)
@electoralreform
@OneWorldTrust
@reformthinktank
@NuffieldTrust
@CER_London (Centre for European Reform)
@million_plus
@RUSI_org (Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies)
@RFcambridge (Relationships Foundation)
@thefabians
@ECFRheadlines (European Council on Foreign Relations – protected account)
@Ekklesia_co_uk
@Forum4theFuture
@QuilliamF
@res_publica
@WorkFoundation
@policynetwork
@NLGNthinktank (The New Local Government Network)
@PopnMatters (Population Matters)
@ProgressOnline
@the_young_fdn (Young Foundation)
@HJS_Org (Henry Jackson Society)
@StockholmNet (‘protected’ Twitter account)
@ChathamHouse
@CentreForum
@CentreforCities
@UnlockDemocracy (Update: funding sources listed here)
@theneweconomics (New Economics Foundation)
@OpenEurope
@VoxEU
@CredosThinks
@ConUnit_UCL (Constitution Unit)
@HansardSociety
@GreenAllianceUK
@instituteforgov (Institute for Government)
@IISS_org (International Institute for Strategic Studies)
@Institute4SD (Institute for Strategic Dialogue)
@odi_development (Overseas Development Institute)
@IDS_UK (Institute of Development Studies)