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Keith Evans

@kpe123.bsky.social
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Secondary teacher from 1980 then Senior Lecturer in Music Education, University of Greenwich 2006-2018. Now fully retired and enjoying pleasures of life: family, food & drink, and travel

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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Think the key missing word here might be something like ‘expensive’ ‘flamboyant’ or even ‘bling’.
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“It may be politically, economically or militarily desirable – but is it the right thing to do?”
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Roger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Sally Nugent wiping the floor with Farage. As well as £5M below, she called out his questioning of Andy Burnham's "mandate". "Do your MPs who defected from the Tories have a mandate?"
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
credit to Sally Nugent who just, in normal circumstances, brought Nigel Farage's political career to an end. If polls don't plummet after this, I will be truly astonished.
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Not sure they thought this one through
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
What? Is this headline saying Reform are suggesting electing child-rapists as Reform MPs’ ?!?!!
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The far right
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Good to see the proposed reforms to music education (and arts ed in general) in HM Govt’s response to the Curriculum & Assessment Review this week. But why is the ridiculous obsession with notation singled out yet again?
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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Attractive modern style beer at 'old man beer' strength
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
“There are … a large number of people in this country who came here legally, but in effect shouldn’t have been able to do so.” Oh well. So what? Do we want to make the UK ‘culturally coherent’, whatever that might be?
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Because so far in his 2nd presidency he’s meddled in the two most deadly conflicts in the world and resolved nothing?
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
And a return to flogging and children up chimneys?
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Around 40 breweries in the city and surrounding area plus the statistic that it’s the Swedish city with the most breweries per person explains why Gothenburg has gained a reputation in the past 20 years as the craft beer capital of Sweden grapeandhop.blogspot.com/2025/09/goth...
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Reform party giving serious consideration to education policy I see. Of all the issues facing schools & young people how daft can you get?
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The phrase ‘Hoist with one’s own petard’ comes to mind. Looking forward loud mouth Mr Garbage coming a-cropper given the mischief he’s been happily peddling against the DL of the Labour party
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
www.routledge.com/Debates-in-M.... Highly recommended newly published 2nd edition of Debates in Music Education. Other publications tell you how to ‘deliver’ a curriculum. This volume encourages you to develop your own practice by challenging you to reflect on key issues
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Debates in Music Teaching
Debates in Music Teaching encourages both graduate and postgraduate students and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in music education. It introduces a critical ap...
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
He’s not my politics nor my MP but good on Roger Gale, MP for the neighbouring constituency, (and other signatories) for raising this issue and challenging the assumption that art is independent of politics
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
‘A great story’ when you frame it as ‘Irrational xenophobe MP looks a right idiot’ With 5 mins thinking about it before jumping on social media he’d have realised it’s 100 miles from Yarmouth to the Hook of Holland, (nearest point on mainland Europe). An ambitious crossing for desperate migrants!
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
You’d think this was far fetched but funny if it were a storyline for a sitcom. The fact that it is a judgment from a sitting MP. God help us!
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The actual article also notes that around 50 schools close every year anyway so it's no more than usual.
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Elizabeth Stafford @drlizstafford.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I really, REALLY wish we could get beyond the misunderstanding that music education = extra-curricular instrumental provision. Music is a statutory subject of the National Curriculum, and the heart of music education is inclusive classroom music lessons, not optional instrumental provision.
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Classic Simon Heffer in Telegraph. He should get out more, visit a few schools where music is thriving rather than banging on about his ‘golden age’ after which it all went downhill. Good music ed DOES exist in UK. May not be universal but nor was it in 1960s, as many can testify
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Visiting southern Italy in the heat of summer with temperatures hitting 35C a hefty rich red Primitivo or Negroamaro is hardly the most attractive option. But with delicious seafood aplenty crack open the white Verdeca grapeandhop.blogspot.com/2025/07/viva...
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Viva Verdeca !
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Zweigelt - the ideal summer red?
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
How charity works, 1985 vs 2025 From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Touché
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
And you coukd add that Trump is ignorant, shameful and total dusgrace www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
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Donald Trump was wrong – Ukraine still holds some cards
Editorial: All the nations of the world that believe in freedom, democracy and national self-determination must continue to stand by the Ukrainian people
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I’ve always thought that any form of school assessment / exam should focus on what students ‘can do’. Conservative govt’s education reforms 2010-2024 have not served majority of young people well. observer.co.uk/news/nationa....
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Too many exams, too many pupils let down: Whitehall plans reset of GCSEs | The Observer
Strategy to help failing white working-class boys will be included in plans to rethink policy on exams and training. But how far will leaders be prepared to go?
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Like others, I understand why they released the fact that the perpetrator of the horrendous Liverpool attack was a white British man. But it is a bad sign of where our country of at. Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Great post by drlizstafford.bluesky.social on issues for new National Centre for Arts & Music Education. As someone who a decade ago was funded to enhance trainee primary teachers’ knowledge & confidence in teaching music I concur that initiatives must be F2F, collegiate & predominantly within ITE
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a.... Is this what it means to be Surgeon General in Trump’s America? But then perhaps Means doesn’t have the means?!! (Moans all round)
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Trump picks conspiracy theorist with no medical license to be Surgeon General
Previous nominee was withdrawn amid claims she had misrepresented her medical education
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Trump administration’s ability to meddle in things and make them worse is staggering. Leave complex solutions to complex problems to others who know what they’re doing
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“Thatchers Cider is also home to the largest living library of apple trees.” Might Brogdale nr Faversham, home of the National Fruit Collection have something to say on this? brogdalecollections.org
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Brogdale Collections: National Fruit Collection & Heritage Orchards
Brogdale Collections is the home of The National Fruit Collection, the worlds largest fruit collection. Our orchards are a living history & heritage of fruit
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Can’t even make their own MAGAhats
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/04/2025
There are opportunities for Keir Starmer in Trump's trade chaos. Here's how he can seize them | Martin Kettle
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There are opportunities for Keir Starmer in Trump's trade chaos. Here's how he can seize them | Martin Kettle
From fiscal rules to universities, doors have opened that were shut three months ago. Our future depends on which he chooses, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It’s not quite how LSPH is spinning this. In Jan this year the Rail Regulator ruled that HS1 Ltd (now renamed at LSPH) must reduce access charges to existing and new operators on the line St P to Channel tunnel - see www.orr.gov.uk/search-news/...
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Rail Regulator orders HS1 Ltd to further lower charges for train operators | Office of Rail and Road
The Office of Rail and Road announced today that it is directing HS1 Ltd to lower its charges for passenger and freight train operating companies to use the high speed rail line from London to the Cha...
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I totally agree - “If you cause more danger, create more potholes and take up more parking space, it’s only fair that you pay a little bit more.”
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/04/2025
"Musicians have given up touring - about 30% have had no work at all since Brexit came into full force." CEO of the Independent Society of Musicians Deborah Annetts lays bare how Brexit has hit the British music industry at today's UK-EU reset evidence session.
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Elizabeth Stafford @drlizstafford.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
*NEW* blog: Saving music education (again)… musiceducationsolutions.co.uk/news/saving-...
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Saving music education (again)... - Music Education
It feels like almost every day recently a new campaign to ‘save’ music education has been launched by someone outside… Continue reading Saving music education (again)…
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Great. A step nearer competition on HS1 and some competition on rail services to Europe. Hopefully will lead to reinstatement of cross-channel trains here in Kent to replace farcical situation of having to travel to London to come back again to speed through Ashford Int’l
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/03/2025
Elton John backs Ed Sheeran’s call for UK to put £250m into music education
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Elton John backs Ed Sheeran’s call for UK to put £250m into music education
Coldplay, Harry Styles and Stormzy also join the Suffolk songwriter in campaigning for music funding in schools Elton John, Coldplay, Harry Styles, Stormzy and Central Cee are among the artists backing a call from Ed Sheeran for Keir Starmer to commit £250m of funding for music education. As part of his newly launched Ed Sheeran Foundation, the Suffolk songwriter is campaigning for music funding in schools, training for music teachers, funding for grassroots venues and spaces, apprenticeships in music and a more diverse music curriculum. Continue reading...
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
No wonder it’s “reduced to clear” in Waitrose. Unfortunately Musk has made the name toxic
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Elizabeth Stafford @drlizstafford.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Curriculum & Assessment Review Interim Report is out: www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Curriculum and Assessment Review: interim report
An independent review of the curriculum and assessment system in England, with statistical analysis.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/03/2025
Donald Trump, author of 'The Art of The Deal': "I will end the war in Ukraine before I am even inaugurated..." "I will end this war in 24 hours..." "In 30 days..." "In six months..." "Look! I gave away half of Ukraine in exchange for hockey!" "But at least in Gaza... oh." ~AA
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Martin Fautley @proffautley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I see we are to get a new National Centre for Arts and Music Education. This could be interesting, although I have no idea what it will be, or what it will do?
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Must confess on reading this headline I assumed this flight had departed from India with a majority of foreign nationals succumbing to Delhi belly
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Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Alexander Armstrong - “In our case, private school is the only place available for our children to learn music.” (The Telegraph). Really? That’s strange. They may not be perfect but state-maintained schools DO teach music
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