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Simon Speare

@simonspeare

Composer, teacher, father, rocker.

 London
simonspeare.co.uk
Joined July 2012
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Southeastern
@Se_Railway14 Jul 2025
⚠ UPDATE: The signalling problem at #LondonVictoria has now been resolved. A separate issue means platform 6 remains out of use, but services are able to run normally into all other platforms.
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Here we go. Close down the arts courses! Progress!
BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) profile pictureBBC Politics
@BBCPoliticsFeb 22
“We’re going to stop the government funding dead end university courses” Shadow education secretary Laura Trott says her party would stop funding courses that “don’t deliver for young people” citing some creative arts courses as an example #BBCLauraK bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bv0…
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We very much look forward to @PresteigneFest taking place next week, with a richly varied programme including the premiere of RPS Composer @J_A_Hoyle's 'Koivunsoitto' performed by @anne_denholm on 23 August. Explore the full programme here: presteignefestival.com/2024-…
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Thomas Kemp@TDPKemp16 Aug 2024
We cut arts funding but spent £4m on each Olympic medal. Is that fair? Brilliant article: bang on ⁦@RichmoMusic⁩ thetimes.com/article/698411e…
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I'm now live on hspark.co.uk 2 lunchtimes a week! Pls RT! @PunkEthics @Rantipoles1 @RealGerryRanson @RealOutbursts @Realsdslb @realstevewhite @RiddlerMusic @rikpattenden @Rites_of_Hadda @RobShaw23404309 @SadfaceUK @SeanStu @sexykidguitar @simonspeare @SpiceAlbert
Vis the Spoon's Radio Squid on hSpark.co.uk (@spoonradiosquid) profile pictureVis the Spoon's Radio Squid on hSpark.co.uk@spoonradiosquid17 Jul 2024
My brand new #radio show - Vis the Spoon’s Bottomless Brunch - is on hSpark.co.uk EVERY #Tuesday & #Thursday from midday-2pm. 2 hours of BRILLIANT #tunes & bewildering #psychobabble. You’ll wonder how u ever got thru the working day without it !
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This is good. It’s very very good. And I say that as a scruffy, penniless working class herbert from Balsall Heath in Birmingham who made good. And made a movie about Nureyev. And fulfilled a lifelong dream of flying to bloody Space. And Votes Labour. 🌹
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Iggy Pop
@IggyPop3 Feb 2024
FROM IGGY: „Dear Wayne, wherever you are, thanks for all the wonderful days, and all the killer music. There would have been no Stooges without your support. You were a Ramblin’ Rose”
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Fabulous news and a richly deserved appointment. Bravo, Paul! @KetingSun @HickinJoshua @WMClassical
Birmingham Royal Ballet (@BRB) profile pictureBirmingham Royal Ballet@BRB22 Jan 2024
We are excited to announce that our very own Paul Murphy is now the Music Director and Principal Conductor of Birmingham Royal Ballet 🤩!   Read more about Paul and the @BRB_RBSinfonia here: brnw.ch/21wGhZK
Paul Murphy is sitting on a aged wooden stool, smiling for a headshot. Paul is facing forwards, looking at the camera. Paul has grey/white short hair and a trimmed goatee. Paul is wearing a black formal shirt, black trousers and a gold watch sits on the left wrist. Credit: Johan Persson.

ALT Paul Murphy is sitting on a aged wooden stool, smiling for a headshot. Paul is facing forwards, looking at the camera. Paul has grey/white short hair and a trimmed goatee. Paul is wearing a black formal shirt, black trousers and a gold watch sits on the left wrist. Credit: Johan Persson.

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That’s class from Finn. Bravo young man. 💚#pafc Still gutted we couldn’t afford to keep him.
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Image from Carl Barnard 💚 PAFC (@CarlBarnard15)
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Very serious consequences for the arts, artists & audiences of all kinds!
Campaign for the Arts (@_CFTA) profile pictureCampaign for the Arts
@_CFTA11 Jan 2024
In real terms, English councils have almost halved their cultural investment since 2010. Local councils are the largest public funders of the arts, so the deepening cuts sweeping the nation could mean disastrous consequences for arts access.
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Take 2 minutes to watch this. It’s one of the best interviews I’ve seen so far on the #DoctorsStrike. Thank you @DrHilaryJones.
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Tonight a great antidote to Xmas shopping @stowtradeshall @beaubowenarewe @tarantwina walthamstowtradeshall.com/#c…
Walthamstow Trades Hall | Voted Top UK Independent Live Music Venue

Walthamstow Trades Hall | Voted Top UK Independent Live Music Venue

Discover Walthamstow Trades Hall, a vibrant, accessible and community-focused, independent grassroots live music and events venue offering live entertainment, gigs, comedy, bookclubs, choirs,...

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“I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now…” Philip #Larkin, died 2 December 1985 #death #poem
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voodoo@Voodoov214 Dec 2023
Nice new angle on Gibson's goal.
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I don’t usually post personal stuff, but this place is my street, here was my safe home, my neighborhood, my lovely neighbors, my memories and big dreams buried under the rubble
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Quite shocking to hear at a public meeting last night that in a coastal village of 90 properties in #Cornwall there is only one child. The effect second and holiday homes are having on communities. cornwalllive.com/news/cornwa…
Cornish village with lack of affordable social housing gets stark warning

Cornish village with lack of affordable social housing gets stark warning

A special meeting has heard residents' concerns about a contentious plan to build houses in their village

cornwalllive.com
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🕺 Mumba! #EFL | @Argyle
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Bali Mumba… Take a bow 👏👏 #PAFC
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The crisis is real and serious. Nearly every sec school has vacancies for Sept. They are also pouring public money into agencies, which can ask up to 30% of a salary as a fee. Agencies should be banned from signing up ECTs. They feed on a desperate system. theguardian.com/education/20…
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Most sec schools already teach kids about vaping. You are blaming us for your inadequate legislation and unwillingness to act. Stop cheap disposable vapes. Stop bright colours and fruit flavours. And stop shops selling them to kids and kids being able to buy them online. Simple.
Schools Week (@SchoolsWeek) profile pictureSchools Week@SchoolsWeek30 May 2023
🚫 The government has said its wider review of RSHE will now also look at vaping @DHSCgovuk said guidance would be 'explicit' that children should learn about the harms of e-cigarettes, as they do for other substances such as tobacco and alcohol schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-to…
Schools to be told they should teach pupils about vaping risks

Schools to be told they should teach pupils about vaping risks

Government has announced more measures to cut down on vaping in schools, but campaigners believe more needs to be done to tackle issues

schoolsweek.co.uk
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