Clive Grant

@daisyldixon @marginletter That’s not the silhouette of the late Queen at the foot of the step ladder is it? If so the irony is further compounded…..

@marginletter It’s not about that, the flags have been interpreted as part of the wider anti-immigration movements this year, so this image is painfully ironic reuters.com/world/uk/engla…

paddington bear was literally an immigrant

@mrmarksteel Begin with a K an arty place, but so easily becomes the American President’s face…..

Question alert!!!! It’s the question we all get asked most days…. What do you know about Unst in Shetland?

@ClarksonsFarm1 I look like that when I’ve got my weener caught.

Best caption wins…

@daisyldixon Fine self awareness I’d say!

I want to get my book titles tattooed on me, but the first book is called ‘Depraved’ 😅 the other will likely be about beauty. So would DEPRAVED BEAUTY be a terrible idea for a tattoo? Or would it be kinda cool… I honestly don’t know??

@robprogressive You could always donate your ‘saved’ school fees to your child’s new state school, they would be very grateful I’m sure.

Today, my daughter’s school is shutting down. Why? Labour’s tax hikes on school fees & NI hikes on staff.  100s of distraught kids & parents.  A high-quality, nurturing school forced to close because of greedy, arrogant taxation. Disgusting.  All it does is pile more pressure on overcrowded state schools.  How can ANYONE justify taxing education? Labour are destroying the very foundations of our children’s future.  What an absolute disgrace. @UKLabour

@FXMC1957 I think it’s 643 with the latest evidence.

10 June 1944. 642 men, women and children were murdered by the German Waffen SS in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France. The village was never rebuilt and featured at the opening episode of the classic ITV documentary series World at War.

@AutoPap 06 Disco 3 owner: 185,000 miles, driven daily in UK, and throughout Europe. Regularly serviced and maintained (the secret to trouble free running). Only one inconvenience when front air suspension sensor failed. A stitch in time saves nine: change those fluids!

Whilst I get some hate the Defender, much like I hate Tesla’s. But saying they always breakdown because a mates mate had a cousin who’s uncles wife had a problem with hers isn’t really a valid argument against them. Mine have all been bullet proof.

@GWRHelp Thanks Matteo, I’ll give that a shot again later today.

@clivegrant8 I'm sorry to hear that Clive. That link using our old website usually works. For more help, please call our Web Support Team on 03457 000 125, then option 3 and option 1 and the team can help. They are open from 6am until 11pm all week - Matteo

Morning @GWRHelp Having real problems with accessing my account on your App, seeing my railcard , signing in and not receiving password reset emails; is there a problem I should know about? Using tickets without being able to show my railcard could be problematic….

@GWRHelp Still no joy with a reset email I’m afraid.

@clivegrant8 Okay, I'm sorry your having issues with this. Please try resetting your password via this alternative link: tickets.gwr.com/gw/en/account/… - Matteo

@GWRHelp Hi Matteo Have done that twice, and phoned you helpline but all to no avail. Your customer support sent me another download code, but the issue is logging onto my account. The email he sent me to reset my password, as with all the other times I requested yesterday didn’t arrive.

@clivegrant8 Good morning. There aren't any known issues with the App at the current time. Could you please delete and reinstall the app to see if that makes a difference? - Matteo

@Music_bod Certainly ensures an ever-expanding curriculum content!

@Music_bod @Johnfinney8 I think Dr Who needs to be canvassed for an opinion here……

Sometimes pictures are worth a thousand words when it comes to academics explaining how to facilitate pupils’ progression…..

@DrFautley I am beginning to wonder how long it will be before the Arts in schools reach an unsustainable crisis point. A descending spiral to crash and burn because of years of uninformed curriculum pressures and lack of expert specialists in the classroom. Government must listen and act.

This is not what we want to hear:

@EnglishCadence @Johnfinney8 @DrLizStafford SLT have always loved to evidence progress by focussing on the easily measurable aspects of the arts, especially if it can be written in an exercise book and left open for all to see on those ‘learning walks’…..

@Johnfinney8 @DrLizStafford The restrictive view of knowledge as being verbal-declarative testable, & not recognising procedural or tacit knowledge, is at the heart of the guru-promoted/disciple SLT strategies that are strangling classroom music in many schools. We need to support teachers & challenge this.

Astonishing to hear Michael Gove - universally acknowledged by the profession to be our most damaging education secretary in living memory- praised, twice, in this speech from a Labour Education Secretary who claims to want to listen to schools and teachers. 🤯

@Johnfinney8 Without context how can we confidently talk about meaning?

Always a pleasure to have a long conversation with a former student and to hear about novel approaches in their music teaching. This time about an approach to ‘context’, not as an add on but as the wrap-around source of meaning making. Has ‘context’ become a forgotten category?

Reform UK MP Lee Anderson has been ordered to apologise by parliament’s watchdog for bullying & harassment after it found he told a security guard to “f**** off, everyone opens the door to me”

@dickstrawbridge Still in SW England. Seems late to me.

Really surprised to see half a dozen swallows this evening hunting over the moat I’m sure they’re usually gone by late September?

Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer reflected today on how playing the flute gave him many opportunities at a young age. Music has the power to enrich young people's lives. It is vital that Labour fulfils its pledge to put music and the arts back at the heart of our schools.