Nicola Sugden
@nicola-sugden.bsky.social
Newcastle upon Tyne. I am retired and prioritise spending time with loved ones and good friends. I sing a lot and I potter on the allotment. I try to influence for a positive and diverse society. I worked in conflict resolution and peace building.
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The Glasshouse International Centre for Music - one of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions - is looking for a Chief Executive Officer to lead the organisation into its next era #artsjobs
Chief Executive Officer | The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
Application deadline: Friday 13th February 2026
workculture.uk
January 15, 2026 at 12:39 PM
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music - one of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions - is looking for a Chief Executive Officer to lead the organisation into its next era #artsjobs
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Sarah’s fundraiser here gofund.me/370155498
NB - you can adjust the amount that GoFundMe tips itself, the default is a whopping 17.5%!
NB - you can adjust the amount that GoFundMe tips itself, the default is a whopping 17.5%!
Donate to Sarah Porter Spine Race 2026, organized by Maria Hughes
Run for freedom.
A challenge like no other for a cause like no other.
The Spine Ultram… Maria Hughes needs your support for Sarah Porter Spine Race 2026
gofund.me
January 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Sarah’s fundraiser here gofund.me/370155498
NB - you can adjust the amount that GoFundMe tips itself, the default is a whopping 17.5%!
NB - you can adjust the amount that GoFundMe tips itself, the default is a whopping 17.5%!
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She was running the #spinerace for Afghan women and girls. She was pulled out because of death threats. I’ll put her fundraiser page in the next post. Let’s support if we can.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Woman pulled out of UK ultramarathon after death threats over Afghanistan fundraising
Sarah Porter was running 108-mile Montane Winter Spine Challenger South race when security team had to disable tracking device
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:37 PM
She was running the #spinerace for Afghan women and girls. She was pulled out because of death threats. I’ll put her fundraiser page in the next post. Let’s support if we can.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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The far right feeds on division and despair. Our answer is solidarity and hope.
Join @togetheralliance.bsky.social in London on Saturday 28 March for the Together Against the Far Right demonstration.
Materials here: actionnetwork.org/forms/stick-...
Join @togetheralliance.bsky.social in London on Saturday 28 March for the Together Against the Far Right demonstration.
Materials here: actionnetwork.org/forms/stick-...
January 9, 2026 at 10:55 AM
The far right feeds on division and despair. Our answer is solidarity and hope.
Join @togetheralliance.bsky.social in London on Saturday 28 March for the Together Against the Far Right demonstration.
Materials here: actionnetwork.org/forms/stick-...
Join @togetheralliance.bsky.social in London on Saturday 28 March for the Together Against the Far Right demonstration.
Materials here: actionnetwork.org/forms/stick-...
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Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes.
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes.
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
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The Make Music: Young People – Programme Assistant will work closely with the team at The Glasshouse to support all aspects of the Foundation, Step Up, CAT and Ensemble programmes #musicjobs #artsjobs
Programme Assistant, Make Music: Young People | The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
Application deadline: 5pm, 4th January 2026
workculture.uk
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The Make Music: Young People – Programme Assistant will work closely with the team at The Glasshouse to support all aspects of the Foundation, Step Up, CAT and Ensemble programmes #musicjobs #artsjobs
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If anyone is interested in supporting grassroots girls.and women's sport and can spare a couple of quid, please do and kindly repost.
Thank you.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Thank you.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Give Girls the Opportunity to Dream and Play – Big Give
Sport can transform a girl’s life, building resilience, leadership, joy, self-belief and a powerful sense of belonging. Across the UK, girls are dreaming of becoming the next Red Rose, the next Liones...
donate.biggive.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
If anyone is interested in supporting grassroots girls.and women's sport and can spare a couple of quid, please do and kindly repost.
Thank you.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Thank you.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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Moving towards our stretch target of £200,000!
A huge thank you to everyone who's donated - we're gonna challenge Labour and take the fight to Reform!
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
A huge thank you to everyone who's donated - we're gonna challenge Labour and take the fight to Reform!
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Green Party raises more in a day than they did in six months
Green Party supporters are here to do two things: fundraise for the local elections and suck humbug, and they're all out of humbug
www.thecanary.co
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Moving towards our stretch target of £200,000!
A huge thank you to everyone who's donated - we're gonna challenge Labour and take the fight to Reform!
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
A huge thank you to everyone who's donated - we're gonna challenge Labour and take the fight to Reform!
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Fantastic thread - current variance in issue importance depending on what question is asked. Many thanks @cwp-weir.bsky.social
Yesterday, we put out a report on the most important issues to voters.
We know that immigration now tops the traditional most important issues question (see below from @yougov.co.uk).
But that doesn't tell the full story.
Here is a rundown of the experiments we did to test this out (A THREAD):
We know that immigration now tops the traditional most important issues question (see below from @yougov.co.uk).
But that doesn't tell the full story.
Here is a rundown of the experiments we did to test this out (A THREAD):
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Fantastic thread - current variance in issue importance depending on what question is asked. Many thanks @cwp-weir.bsky.social
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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
We need to support and improve our independent institutions such as BBC and NHS - or the power ends up with Farage and other autocrats.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We need to support and improve our independent institutions such as BBC and NHS - or the power ends up with Farage and other autocrats.
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🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Chilling in the extreme - under a new national security memorandum, ordinary American individuals can be designated as domestic terrorists - accused of being “anti-American” for normal acts of protest, or opposition to govt policies. WAKE UP, AMERICA. www.treason.io/p/must-read-...
October 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Chilling in the extreme - under a new national security memorandum, ordinary American individuals can be designated as domestic terrorists - accused of being “anti-American” for normal acts of protest, or opposition to govt policies. WAKE UP, AMERICA. www.treason.io/p/must-read-...
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New from @EmpirePodUK
Our Gaza series reaches its climax with a double bill:
THE BRITISH MANDATE & THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE
and
THE PALESTINIAN REVOLT, 1936
Our Gaza series reaches its climax with a double bill:
THE BRITISH MANDATE & THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE
and
THE PALESTINIAN REVOLT, 1936
October 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
New from @EmpirePodUK
Our Gaza series reaches its climax with a double bill:
THE BRITISH MANDATE & THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE
and
THE PALESTINIAN REVOLT, 1936
Our Gaza series reaches its climax with a double bill:
THE BRITISH MANDATE & THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE
and
THE PALESTINIAN REVOLT, 1936
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Double checking there were no violent insurrections, beating up of cops, pro-Nazi shirts, and smearing of shit in state Capitols today across the country during the massive NO KINGS protests, right?
Because that's what Trump supporters did on January 6th to overthrow a free and fair election.
Because that's what Trump supporters did on January 6th to overthrow a free and fair election.
October 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Double checking there were no violent insurrections, beating up of cops, pro-Nazi shirts, and smearing of shit in state Capitols today across the country during the massive NO KINGS protests, right?
Because that's what Trump supporters did on January 6th to overthrow a free and fair election.
Because that's what Trump supporters did on January 6th to overthrow a free and fair election.
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Oh.
Reform UK has been forced to reject more unlawful donations than any other British political party in 2025
the party has had to give back almost £200,000 this year from 18 impermissible donors, according to Electoral Commission data
www.ft.com/content/5392...
the party has had to give back almost £200,000 this year from 18 impermissible donors, according to Electoral Commission data
www.ft.com/content/5392...
October 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Oh.
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I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.
October 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.
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Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH
October 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH
#antiracism Huge turnout in #Newcastle on Saturday. A broad coalition of groups, organisations and individuals collaborated to show that racism and anti immigration politics are not welcome here.
September 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#antiracism Huge turnout in #Newcastle on Saturday. A broad coalition of groups, organisations and individuals collaborated to show that racism and anti immigration politics are not welcome here.
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Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money".
Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions.
Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions.
Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
TV tonight: an essential record of the Covid contracts scandal
An investigation into the extent of greed and deception in PPE provision. Plus: weird drama Coldwater goes off the rails. Here’s what to watch this evening
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money".
Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions.
Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions.
Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Its been three years since a complaint was lodged to GNC about Malhotra’s anti- vaccine stance which has seen him continue to grow his sphere of influence reaching into US and now potentially Reform, UK policies
When will the GMC act against anti-vax doctor?
It’s three years since a complaint was lodged against a doctor who recently linked Covid vaccines to cancer at Reform’s conference. But the General Medical Council still hasn’t taken action.
goodlawproject.org
September 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Its been three years since a complaint was lodged to GNC about Malhotra’s anti- vaccine stance which has seen him continue to grow his sphere of influence reaching into US and now potentially Reform, UK policies
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About a sixth of the public endorse very extreme views on making legal/settled migrants leave & then follow up on the specifics. (This overlaps with the 8% who say they support violence in protests & liked the riots, so it should be challenged, not indulged)
August 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
About a sixth of the public endorse very extreme views on making legal/settled migrants leave & then follow up on the specifics. (This overlaps with the 8% who say they support violence in protests & liked the riots, so it should be challenged, not indulged)