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Sarah Munro

@sarahmunro.bsky.social
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Personal Account. Director: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Co-chair Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN). Board member: Scottish Futures Forum, Scottish Parliament.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We go live to Suffolk embracing Mediterranean life ...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I've written in Health Service Journal today: Not another protracted Labour government U-turn. Wes Streeting must act now and cancel the Trump/Mandelson Palantir contract. NHS workers are voting with their feet and refusing to take part in this national disgrace. www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...
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Wes Streeting must cancel Palantir’s FDP contract now
Palantir is not the right partner for the NHS, says Green Party leader Zack Polanski
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
DCMS must ensure that it has structures in place to identify early warning signs, should museums and galleries start struggling to manage their financial risks, so it can intervene early – potentially before additional funding is required. New @nao.org.uk report www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-...
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The financial resilience of DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries - NAO report
This National Audit Office report reviews how well the 15 DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries and DCMS have manages financial challenges.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
She's right, you know.
Screenshot of an X post by Acyn quoting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying Trump impulsively acted in Venezuela and Iran, causing global instability, and suggesting spikes in instability coincide with revelations about the Epstein files. Below is a video still of Ocasio-Cortez speaking outside a government building.Continuation of the same post showing Ocasio-Cortez arguing that if the Epstein files influence Trump’s decisions enough to risk global conflict to protect himself politically, it means he cannot make objective decisions for the American people. The image shows Ocasio-Cortez speaking on a walkway outside a building.
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“In the end, Mandelson and McSweeney were ruined by their own hubris” … “What remained was not a movement but a managerial network – one held together by a shared history of deceit, rather than any ideological coherence” @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-purge-...
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The Purge That Devoured Its Architects
The same shameless tactics that Starmer used to purge the left are now destroying his project from within.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is a good read. Cory Doctorow on how Trump Tariffs are actually an opportunity for the rest of the world to break the grip of US tech companies.
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Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Govt minister Heidi Alexander on #trevorphillips this morning urging the Iranian govt to protect peoples right to peacefully protest
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
"When history looks back people will wonder how artists could have had a microphone in front of them and not said anything." I spoke today to the News Agents. 👇🏼
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Labour could scrap the two child benefit cap, which according to the childrens commissioner would immediately lift 500,000 kids out of poverty. But no. Instead Darren Jones is launching a new Private Finance Initiative to try & improve the lives of individual kids.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Reminder: When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. And when those billionaires justify their business motives by citing “freedom,” what they really seek is freedom from accountability. Don't be fooled.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
In relation to people burning effigies of migrants and refugees, Adil Ray asks: "who radicalised these people, who was sending the messages out that makes these people think this is ok to do... who's radicalising these guys?" Caroline Flint... #GMB
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Arts as essential Tech. Gold ⭐️ read @christophersmith.bsky.social ‘Much of what not working in politics globally stems from failures to think historically/ globally/reckon with ethics /pay attention to evidence /argue well wi enough people to be convincing & to design better over the long term’
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Tragic that the housing crisis is constantly framed as a "migration issue" rather than a "predatory landlord class" issue.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
2016: Nigel Farage, "The worst case scenario, economically, is better than where we are today" 2025: Nigel Farage, "This is broken Britain, nothing works"
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The UK has the highest industrial electricity prices in Europe. Upto 132% higher than the EU14 median. Five times more than in Finland. Since 2020, UK's 20 largest energy companies have made £514bn operating profit, destroying businesses and households. davidturver.substack.com/p/uk-industr...
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
In the endless performative hate. This. A love letter to immigrants, is a much needed perspective.
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Grace Blakeley ‘The military-fossil fuel complex is the unholy alliance between some of the world’s most carbon-intensive organisations – its armed forces – and the corporations most responsible for heating the planet. These 2 sectors are not just loosely aligned; they are mutually reinforcing
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The Military-Fossil Fuel Complex
A world system based on permanent war, and permament ecological crisis.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Thank you to the over 70 Labour MPs who have had the courage to step up and back a motion opposing Keir Starmer’s controversial cuts to disability benefits which on the governments own analysis will plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty 👏 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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DWP disability benefit cuts rebellion as over 70 Labour MPs reject plans
The Mirror understands the Labour backbenchers - including 10 chairs of Commons committees - have signed an amendment rejecting the cuts to disability benefits
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is insane by Yvette Cooper. Spray-painting planes is not terrorism. Criminal damage, yes - but you cannot “terrorise” inanimate objects. It does not serve to cause terror in victims. Therefore it is not terrorism. The authoritarian Home Secretary has lost the plot.
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Palestine Action group to be banned, home secretary confirms — BBC News
It comes after what she called a
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
call me crazy but I don't think we should.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
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Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/06/2025
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both," Louis Brandeis once said. We may be about to find out. trib.al/ozCaOPl
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Looking forward to reading this. Just preordered Radical Abundance from @plutobooks ‘Radical abundance is the antithesis of bullshit abundance. It is producing more of what we need and less of what we don't; more free time, more biodiversity, more services owned by those who use them’
Book cover for ‘Radical Abundance, How to Win a Democratic Future’
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Zack Polanski has demonstrated his grasp of the first rule in politics: knowing when to seize the initiative. In pledging “eco-populism”… a bold claim to the form of politics our chaotic times demand. #backZack www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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A new force is stirring on the left
Eco-populism is coming for the Labour Party.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Luring starving people out into the open with the promise of food and then gunning them down in cold blood. We have a word for this and we should start using it. The word is "evil".
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
‘Decade of deceit’ for Norths transport investment
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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
“Suicide prevention is everyone’s business”, and Labour promised to make it theirs. But the government is failing to tackle one of the biggest risk factors for suicide: socio-economic inequality.
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Inequality and suicide
“Suicide prevention is everyone’s business”, and Labour promised to make it theirs. But the government is failing to tackle one of the biggest risk factors for suicide: socio-economic inequality.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
There's your answer.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
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American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating
Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We have enough productive capacity to ensure good lives for 8 billion. And yet, because capital controls production, deprivation remains endemic. This new study shows *95%* of surveyed households in low/middle-income countries are denied access to basics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Subnational survey data reveal persistent gaps in living standards across 75 low and middle-income countries - Nature Communications
Using subnational Demographic and Health Survey data from 75 low and middle-income countries, the authors show that many households lack access to decent living standards as basic prerequisites for hu...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
In Brussels today. End the genocide.
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
US global popularity contest post Trump #GreatGraphs
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Nice look for you, Facebook! Thanks, hometown paper! And more thanks to the people who advocated for the "permanently disabled" status of my account there to be overturned. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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S.F. author temporarily banned on Facebook after writing about L.A. riots
San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit’s Facebook page was temporarily shut down after she posted an essay on the Los Angeles protests.
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
👏🙌 Sting donates major gift to Baltic’s new Endowment to safeguard free entry and ensure its community work can thrive into the future. "Arts are of vital importance to the wellbeing of the community as a whole and the Baltic should be a beacon of hope for regeneration" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sting: Governments have neglected the North East for decades
The musician is says he is donating an undisclosed amount to the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 10/06/2025
Just 0.2% of all millionaires moved to another country in 2024, but news outlets around the world spun this into a “millionaire exodus”. 11,000 news pieces were published in 2024 about an exodus that did not exist. #BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich bit.ly/43Al0EF
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/06/2025
People should treat any new tech development like a normal tech development. We think about the ethics of it before we go and break everything. We ask normal questions about whether it's useful to solve that problem with that tool instead of firing everyone and going ahead.
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
We welcomed our 10 Millionth Visitor to Baltic. Avg c450,000 visits a year over 22 years. Fun stats: Baltic is the most visited free visitor attraction in the North East (Visit England data). 1 in 8 visits are from Gateshead residents; 66% from Tyne/Wear & North East; 23% working classC2DE; 29% 0-24
The 10 millionth visitor to Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art celebrating with their partner on outdoor viewing deck with Millennium and Tyne Bridges in background. She holds a large bunch of flowers and gold Baltic tote and is joined by Baltic’s female director.
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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Budget cuts threaten UK soft power, warns government adviser
Neil Mendoza says Britain must protect its leading position in higher education, science and the arts
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University of Atypical @universityofatypical.org · 30/05/2025
University of Atypical is calling for the arts and disability sectors, our wider friends and allies, and MPs and MLAs, to join us to resist proposals for the biggest cuts to disability benefits on record. You can read our full statement: universityofatypical.org/benefit-cuts/
Three people stand in a gallery space. They are holding handmade banners that protest the proposed disability cuts. A man on the left has brown hair and black plastic glasses, and wears a blue denim shirt, black trousers, and Dr Martens boots. He is holding a sign that says ‘Disabled Lives Matter’. A woman in the centre has long, wavy brown hair, a dark grey top, light grey trousers, and white trainers. She holds a sign that says ‘Welfare not Warfare’. The woman on the right has long grey-brown, a blue hooded top, a blue and white striped top, blue trousers and black boots. She holds one sign that says ‘Don’t Take the Pip’ and another that says ‘Resist the Cuts’.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Reform should never appear on TV without a fact checker. And they should never be able to try & rubbish climate action without someone saying 92% of their external donations came from fossil fuel & climate denying companies. Party for the billionaires. Fact check below from @desmog.com
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Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
In 1995, Italian philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco wrote an essay called Ur-Fascism, outlining 14 key traits of fascist movements; they serve as warning signs, symptoms of an authoritarian shift. The more of these traits we see, the more cause for concern. www.tccmh.org/post/underst...
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Understanding Umberto Eco’s 14 Points of Fascism in Today’s America
Instead, they serve as warning signs, symptoms of an authoritarian shift. The more of these traits we see, the more cause for concern.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/05/2025
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire. “The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak. Continue reading...
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Mobs of Israelis march through Jerusalem chanting "Death to Arabs" and "may your village burn", while trying to convince us that saying "Free Palestine" is genocidal.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Whether you’re a young renter who is living in the city that wants rent controls, or you’re a farmer who is being screwed over because the supermarkets aren’t paying you what you deserve for the food,” for Polanski, the Greens’ appeal is cross-cutting" www.cityam.com/as-labour-ch...
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As Labour chases Reform, they’re bleeding votes on the left
There is a vacuum for disenchanted Labour voters who remain impervious to Reform's temptations – and they're up for grabs.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The 50% drop in net migration just announced will surprise precisely nobody who has been paying attention to the issue, as opposed to exploiting and lying about it for clicks & votes. I doubt the stats will change the toxic narratives of the latter group, though.
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