Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Think the key missing word here might be something like ‘expensive’ ‘flamboyant’ or even ‘bling’. 000
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 05/07/2026 “It may be politically, economically or militarily desirable – but is it the right thing to do?” 000
Reposted by Keith EvansRoger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Sally 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?" 3348
Reposted by Keith EvansGylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026credit 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. 81599203
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Togo. Fascinating. Wasn’t even aware it was a significant winemaking country. It is proportionate to their entire exports though 000
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Amazed by the position of Belgium too if you recognise this as one of the renowned beer producing countries in Europe 010
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Not much use without further details / a link. Which 5 vineyards, when, and where would be a start 000
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 03/01/2026What? Is this headline saying Reform are suggesting electing child-rapists as Reform MPs’ ?!?!! 000
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 06/11/2025The Music Mark summary is bang on with its remark: “An area for consideration is the emphasis given to the need for reading notation, which, whilst it is a useful tool for accessing many areas of music, is not a necessity for the mastery and development of music”. 000
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Good 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? 100
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 02/11/2025grapeandhop.blogspot.com/2025/11/attr...grapeandhop.blogspot.comAttractive modern style beer at 'old man beer' strength 010
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? 010
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Don’t you get such messages about the Delay Repay when you’re on a late running train in the UK? Seem to recollect I got much the same message from LNER when approaching Kings Cross from the north on a delayed train (Obv had to have booked ticket through LNER and not some other app. That’s fair 100
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Because so far in his 2nd presidency he’s meddled in the two most deadly conflicts in the world and resolved nothing? 010
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Around 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...grapeandhop.blogspot.com 000
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Reform party giving serious consideration to education policy I see. Of all the issues facing schools & young people how daft can you get? 020
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 06/09/2025The 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 010
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Just became a thing? Seem to recollect drinking LNER’s Hop On Board on the same East Coast Main Line 3 or 4 years ago 110
Reposted by Keith EvansAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Reform 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? 48584373278
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 19/08/2025www.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 issuesroutledge.comDebates in Music TeachingDebates 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... 010
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 14/08/2025He’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 010
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! 100
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 08/08/2025You’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! 000
Reposted by Keith EvansAlan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation 27548821974
Reposted by Keith EvansSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025The actual article also notes that around 50 schools close every year anyway so it's no more than usual. 423925
Reposted by Keith EvansElizabeth Stafford @drlizstafford.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I 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. 293
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 20/07/2025I have found memories of discovering the idiosyncrasies of Charles Ives’ unique musical style while studying Music in Bristol In the 1970s 120
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Classic 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 020
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Visiting 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...grapeandhop.blogspot.comViva Verdeca ! 010
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 10/07/2025grapeandhop.blogspot.com/2025/07/zwei...grapeandhop.blogspot.comZweigelt - the ideal summer red? 010
Reposted by Keith EvansPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/07/2025How charity works, 1985 vs 2025 From the new Private Eye, in shops now. 119852
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Good God Martin. Is this STILL an issue in music depts in schools today?!!! We were discussing this 15 yrs ago and it remains a problem? (Right, I’ll return to retired life to lower my blood pressure now) 120
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 17/06/2025What do the states in single figures drink? Beer, bourbon, cocoa cola, water? 000
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 08/06/2025And you coukd add that Trump is ignorant, shameful and total dusgrace www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...independent.co.ukDonald Trump was wrong – Ukraine still holds some cardsEditorial: All the nations of the world that believe in freedom, democracy and national self-determination must continue to stand by the Ukrainian people 000
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 01/06/2025I’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....observer.co.ukToo many exams, too many pupils let down: Whitehall plans reset of GCSEs | The ObserverStrategy 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? 000
Reposted by Keith EvansZoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Like 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 781784315
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Great 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 ITEdrlizstafford.bluesky.social 021
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 08/05/2025www.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)independent.co.ukTrump picks conspiracy theorist with no medical license to be Surgeon GeneralPrevious nominee was withdrawn amid claims she had misrepresented her medical education 000
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Well give you a semicircle of city wall here in Canterbury 000
Keith Evans @kpe123.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Trump 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 000
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.orgbrogdalecollections.orgBrogdale Collections: National Fruit Collection & Heritage OrchardsBrogdale Collections is the home of The National Fruit Collection, the worlds largest fruit collection. Our orchards are a living history & heritage of fruit 000
Reposted by Keith EvansAlastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Can’t even make their own MAGAhats 711315282
Reposted by Keith EvansThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/04/2025There are opportunities for Keir Starmer in Trump's trade chaos. Here's how he can seize them | Martin Kettletheguardian.comThere are opportunities for Keir Starmer in Trump's trade chaos. Here's how he can seize them | Martin KettleFrom 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 34713